Karviná
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Basic data | ||||
State : | Czech Republic | |||
Region : | Moravskoslezský kraj | |||
District : | Karviná | |||
Area : | 5749 ha | |||
Geographic location : | 49 ° 51 ' N , 18 ° 33' E | |||
Height: | 221 m nm | |||
Residents : | 52,824 (Jan 1, 2019) | |||
Postal code : | 733 01, 733 24, 735 06, 734 01 | |||
structure | ||||
Status: | Statutory city | |||
Districts: | 9 | |||
administration | ||||
Mayor : | Jan Wolf ( ČSSD ) (as of 2018) | |||
Address: | Fryštátská 72/1 733 24 Karviná |
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Municipality number: | 598917 | |||
Website : | www.karvina.cz |
Karviná ( German Karwin , Polish Karwina ) is a district town with 53,522 inhabitants (2018) in Moravskoslezský kraj in the east of the Czech Republic . Karviná is an important industrial city and center of heavy industry .
geography
Karviná is located on the right side of the Olsa opposite the confluences of the Stonávka and Karvinský potok in the Upper Silesian coal district on the border with Poland .
history
Karwin was still a village in the Duchy of Teschen in 1880 , but had almost 5000 inhabitants. It belonged to the district of Freistadt (Fryštát, now a district of Karviná) and was on the Kaschau-Oderberger Railway . It had a castle and a brewery and was already a center of coal mining and coke production back then. There was a major dynamite and coal dust explosion in the 1890s - an accident that killed around 250 people.
Since 1910 Karvin was connected to Moravian Ostrau (now part of Ostrava ) by a railway (local railway MDOK).
On the right Olsaufer lies Fryštát, once an independent town, with the seat of a district administration and a district court in Austrian Silesia . In 1880 it had 2244 inhabitants. Freistadt was first mentioned in 1268 and later it was a seat of the Counts of Larisch, who owned a castle and stud there.
Just opposite on the left bank of the Olsa the Lázně Darkov district is located (Bad Darkau) , which due to its iodo and - brominated had water since 1870 a popular spa. After the marriage of Countess Franziska Larisch von Mönnich with Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg in 1898, the Starhembergers often cured themselves in Bad Darkau. The place was later united with Roy and is also known as Bad Roy-Darkau . In October 1938 the city and the entire Olsa region came to Poland.
In 1944 Karwin, Bad Darkau, Freistadt, Roy and Altstadt were combined to form the town of Karwin-Freistadt . After the Second World War , Fryštát was initially independent again until it was again incorporated into Karviná in 1948. It has been the actual center of the city ever since.
City structure
The structure consists of 6 cadastral areas in which 9 districts are located:
- Darkov: Lázně Darkov (Bad Darkau)
- Karviná-Doly: Doly (Arnoldsdorf)
- Karviná-město: Fryštát (Free Town ) , Hranice, Mizerov (Miserau) , Nové Město (New Town)
- Louky nad Olší: Louky (Lonkau)
- Ráj: Ráj (Roy)
- Staré Město u Karviné: Staré Město (Old Town)
The individual districts are:
- Karviná 1-Fryštát - Fryštát (German: Freistadt ; Polish: Frysztat )
- Karviná 2-Doly - Doly (German: Arnoldsdorf )
- Karviná 3-Darkov - Lázně Darkov (German: Bad Darkau ; Polish: Darków Zdrój )
- Karviná 4-Ráj - Ráj (German: Roy ; Polish: Raj )
- Karviná 5-Staré Město - Staré Město (German: Altstadt ; Polish: Stare Miasto ; formerly also: Čula )
- Karviná 6-Nové Město - Nové Město (German: Neustadt ; from 1948 to 1961 Stalingrad )
- Karviná 7-Mizerov - Mizerov (German: Miserau )
- Karviná 8-Hranice - Hranice
- Karviná 9-Louky - Louky nad Olší (German: Lonkau ; Polish: Łąki )
traffic
The main train station is on the Žilina – Bohumín railway line . There is no passenger traffic on the Petrovice u Karviné – Karviná line .
education
The Faculty of Business Administration of the Silesian University of Opava is located in Karviná .
Sports
- Soccer: MFK Karviná
- Handball: Baník Karviná
- Ice hockey: HC Karviná
Personalities
- Free City
- Dana Zátopková (1922–2020), Olympic champion in the javelin throw
- Alfred Biolek (* 1934), German talk show host; TV chef
- Karviná
- Gustaw Morcinek (1891–1963), Polish writer
- Louis Kentner (1905–1987), British pianist
- Erwin Plöckinger (1914–1994), Austrian mining engineer
- Bruno Bělčík (1924–1990), violinist
- Eva Zlonitzky (* 1931 or 1935), German actress
- Peter Zlonicky (* 1935), German architect and urban planner
- Udo Witzens (* 1941), political scientist and orientalist
- Bad Darkau
- Fanny Starhemberg (1875–1943, Bad Darkau), Austrian politician
- Ulf Pindur (* 1943), German pharmacist and food chemist
- Karviná
- Ota Zaremba (* 1957), weightlifter
- Bohuš Keler (* 1961), footballer
- Peter Draisaitl (* 1965), former German ice hockey player, now coach
- Šárka Kašpárková (* 1971), track and field athlete
- Luděk Drobek (* 1975), handball player
- Eva Kurfürstová (* 1977), ski racer
- Richard Hladký (* 1977), handball player
- Michal Brůna (* 1978), handball player
- Radek Štěpánek (* 1978), tennis player
- Petra Němcová (* 1979), photo model
- Jaroslav Bába (* 1984), high jumper
- Jiří Mikesz (* 1986), ice hockey player
- Denisa Rosolová (* 1986), track and field athlete
literature
- Erich Fussek: Karwin, history and importance of an East Silesian mining town. Self-published, Duisburg 1976 ( DNB 800655486 ).
Web links
- Homepage about the city of Karviná
- Bad Darkau
- History and sights of Frystat (Freistadt) in online travel guide Upper Silesia