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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.
Dec 13, 2023 · Extensive deposits of high-quality bituminous coal were discovered on the Silesian bank of the Ostravice River in 1763. Once it was found that Ostrava was located at the centre of a major...
History. Home > Information > About Ostrava. Ostrava, the metropolis of the Moravian-Silesian region, is by its area and its overall population the third largest city of the Czech Republic. Ostrava always had a very strategic location - it is located 10 kilometres south of the border with Poland and 50 kilometres west of the border with Slovakia.
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As early as 1362, Charles IV granted the city the privilege to carry out 16-day markets in this square. The city's history, however, reaches much further back. One of the city's oldest monuments, the Gothic Saint Wenceslaus Church from the thirteenth century, stands near the square.
