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The tower is 85.6 meters high, the tallest for a town hall in the Czech Republic at the time. [3] Under the tower is placed a unique ribbed reinforced concrete slab. The tower clock weighs more than half a ton, and its dial is 3.5m in diameter. In the tower there is an information centre and a viewing terrace at 73 m. [4]
The territory extends into four geomorphological mesoregions: Ostrava Basin (east and centre), Nízký Jeseník (west), Moravian Gate (southwest), and Opava Hilly Land (negligible part in the north). The highest point of the district is the hill Úhorky in Horní Lhota with an elevation of 404 m (1,325 ft).
The total population of the region was 1,203,292 (men 49.1%, women 50.9%) in 2019, which makes it the third most populous region in the Czech Republic; [4] 86.9% are Czechs, 3.3% Slovaks, 3.0% Poles, 2.3% Moravians, 0.8% Silesians, 0.3% Germans, and 0.2% Romani, though this last figure might be considerably higher, as Romani often do not ...
Svinov (German: Schönbrunn) is a borough and municipal part of Ostrava in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It was a separate town, but it merged with Ostrava on 20 March 1957. It lies on the bank of the Oder River, in the Silesian part of the city. As of 2011 census, Svinov had population of 4,301. [1]
After founding the town of Moravská Ostrava between 1268 and 1278 on Moravian side, the village left on the Silesian side was called in contrary Slavic and later Polish. [3] Since 1290 it belonged to the Duchy of Teschen, which in 1327 became a fee of Kingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became part of the Habsburg monarchy.
A set of three successive parts - coal mine, coke ovens and blast furnace operations - also called Ostravian Hradčany, [2] after Hradčany, the Castle District of Prague. The area is registered in the list of European cultural heritage, [ 3 ] and was placed on the Czech Republic's list of tentative UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2001 under the ...
Ostrava Days exposition is organized by the Ostrava Center for New Music (OCNM), an organization founded in 2000 by a Czech composer living in New York Petr Kotík. The institution was established solely for the purpose of organizing Ostrava Days, an event that consists of two parts—a summer institute and festival. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The territory extends into three geomorphological mesoregions: Nízký Jeseník (west and south), Opava Hilly Land (east and north), and Ostrava Basin (a small part in the northeast). The highest point of the district is the hill Červená hora in Budišov nad Budišovkou with an elevation of 749 m (2,457 ft).