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- On January 1, 1924, the so-called “Greater Ostrava” was formed. It merged seven Moravian villages into one greater whole (Moravian Ostrava, Přívoz, Mariánské Hory, Vítkovice, Hrabůvka, Nová Ves and Zábřeh nad Odrou).
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Ostrava became its centre, becoming that period’s “city of coal and iron” and also the “steel heart of the republic”. In 1949, construction was started on the vast Nová Huť industrial complex in Ostrava-Kunčice.
Ostrava (Czech: [ˈostrava] ⓘ; Polish: Ostrawa [ɔsˈtrava] ⓘ, German: Ostrau) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies 15 km (9 mi) from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rivers: Oder, Opava, Ostravice and Lučina.
Origins of the City. History documents show that two sizeable settlements were based here by the arrival of the 13th century. The River Ostrá (Ostravice) provided an important boundary between the rival communities - the Moravians (Moravskás) and the Silesians (Slezskás).
May 23, 2018 · OSTRAVA (until 1929 Moravska Ostrava ; Ger. Maehrisch-Ostrau ), city in N. Moravia, Czech Republic; after Prague and Brno the third largest Jewish community in Czechoslovakia between the two world wars. The town was prohibited to Jews in the Middle Ages.
The old apartment buildings in the city’s centre show the pre-war Jewish influence on the city’s development. The New City Hall is also impressive, with its breathtaking views of the entire city, the Beskydy and the Jeseníky Mountains, and of Poland.
With the rapid development of the city, caused by the development of mines and the founding of the Vitkovice steelworks by the *Gutmann brothers, the community thrived, absorbing Jews from older Moravian communities and many from Galicia. In 1879 the main synagogue was consecrated.
The first museum in Ostrava was established already in 1872. It was founded by a teacher, cultural worker and collector Karel Jaromír Bukovanský in Silesian Ostrava. In 1904, the „Industrie und Gewerbe Museum“ was establishes in Moravian Ostrava, supported by the German guidance of the City.
