Karviná
Karviná ( Karwin German, Polish Karwina ) is a district town with 63 467 inhabitants ( 2005) in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic in the east. Karviná is an important industrial city and the center of heavy industry.
Geography
Karviná is located on the right side of the Olsa opposite the mouths of the Stonávka and Karvinský creek in the Upper Silesian coal mining area on the border with Poland.
History
Karwin 1880 was still a village, but had almost 5,000 residents, the District Commission Freistadt belonged ( Fryštát, now a district of Opava) and was due to the Košice- Berger web. It had a castle and a brewery and was already a center of coal mining and coke production. It was in the 1890s a severe blast and coal dust explosion, an accident that claimed the lives of around 250 people.
Since 1910 Karwin (part of Ostrava now ) with a railway (local railway MDOK ) was associated with Moravian Ostrava.
On the right is Olsaufer Fryštát, once an independent city, with a seat of district administration and the district court in Austrian Silesia. It had 1880 2.244 inhabitants. Free city was first mentioned in 1268 and later it was the seat of the Counts of Larisch who owned a castle and stud there.
Just opposite on the left bank of the Olsa is the area of Spa Darkov ( Bad Darkau ), who was a popular health resort since 1870 because of its iodine and bromine-containing waters. After the marriage of Countess Franziska Larisch of Mönnich with Ernst Rüdiger Prince Starhemberg in 1898, the Star Hemberger often cured in Bad Darkau. Later, the town was united with Roy and is also known as Bad Roy Darkau
1944 united the city Karwin - Freistadt Karwin, bathroom Darkau, Freistadt, Roy and Old Town. After the Second World War Fryštát was initially independent again until it was incorporated in 1948 to re- Karviná. It has since been the actual center of the city.
Boroughs
The structure consists of 6 Katastralbereichen, in which there are 9 Districts:
- Darkov: Spa Darkov ( Bad Darkau )
- Karviná - Doly: Doly ( Arnold village)
- Karviná -město: Fryštát ( Freistadt), Hranice, Mizerov ( Miserau ), Nove Mesto ( New Town)
- Louka nad Olší : Louka ( Lonkau )
- Paradise: Ráj ( Roy )
- Staré Město u Karviné: Stare Mesto ( Old Town)
The individual districts are here:
- Karviná 1- Fryštát - Fryštát ( German: Freistadt; Polish: Frysztat )
- Karviná 2- Doly - Doly ( Arnold village)
- Karviná 3- Darkov - Spa Darkov ( German: Bad Darkau; Polish: Darkow Zdrój )
- Karviná 4- Ráj - Ráj ( German: Roy; Polish: Raj )
- Karviná 5 - Staré Město - Staré Město ( German: Altstadt; Polish: Stare Miasto, formerly also: CULA )
- Karviná 6- Nove Mesto - Nove Mesto ( German: Neustadt ) 1948-1961 Stalingrad
- Karviná 7- Mizerov - Mizerov ( German: Miserau )
- Karviná 8- Hranice - Hranice
- Karviná 9- Louka - Louka nad Olší ( German: Lonkau; Polish: Łąki )
Traffic
The main railway station is on the railway line Žilina - Bohumín. On the route Petrovice u Karviné - Karviná no passenger takes place.
Education
In Karviná settled the Faculty of Business Administration at the Silesian University Opava.
Sports
- Football: MFK Karviná
- Handball: Baník Karviná
- Hockey: HC Karviná
Personalities
- Dana Zátopková (* 1922), track and field athlete
- Alfred Biolek (* 1934), German talk show host; TV chef
- Morcinek Gustav (1891-1963), Polish writer
- Louis Kentner (1905-1987), British pianist
- Erwin Plöckinger (1914-1994), Austrian mining engineer
- Dana Zátopková (* 1922), Olympic champion in the javelin
- Bruno Belcik (1924-1990), violinist
- Eva Zlonitzky ( born 1931 or 1935), German actress
- Peter Zlonicky (* 1935), German architect and urban planner
- Udo Witzens (* 1941), a political scientist and orientalist
- Fanny Starhemberg († 1943 Bad Darkau ), Austrian politician
- Ulf Pindur (* 1943), German chemist and food chemists
- Ota Zaremba ( b. 1957 ), Weightlifting
- Bohuš Keler ( b. 1961 ), football player
- Peter Draisaitl (born 1965 ), former German ice hockey player, now Coach
- Sarka Kašpárková (born 1971 ), Czech athlete
- Eva Kurfürstová ( b. 1977 ), alpine skier
- Richard Hladký ( b. 1977 ), handball players
- Michal Brůna (born 1978 ), handball players
- Radek Stepanek (born 1978 ), tennis player
- Petra Nemcova ( born 1979 ), fashion model
- Jaroslav Bába (* 1984), high jumper