Přívoz

Přívoz ( German Priwoz, 1903-1920 and 1939-1945: Oderfurt, formerly Prziwos ) is a district of the city of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. It belongs to the municipality of Moravian Ostrava a Přívoz and is located three kilometers north-west of the center of Ostrava.

Geography

Přívoz is located on the right side of the Oder between the mouths of the Černý Potok and the Ostravice. To the north rises the Landek (280 m). In the northwest, the completed in May 2008 D1 motorway between Bílovec - Bohumín passes. In Přívoz is the exit 360 Ostrava- centrum. Likewise, on the land of Přívoz is the main railway station Ostrava (Ostrava hlavní nádraží ), in which the railway Ostrava- Frýdlant nad Ostravicí branches from the main Vienna- Cracow.

Neighbouring districts are Petřkovice and Koblov in the north, Hrušov in the northeast, Muglinov in the east, in the southeast Slezská Ostrava, Moravian Ostrava in the south, Marianske Hory in the southwest, and Hošťálkovice Lhotka in the west and Bobrovníky in the northwest.

History

The original street village dates from the early 13th century along the ancient trade route from Teschen to Opava on a ferry across the Oder loops. A little later the castle Landeck was built opposite the village. Was first mentioned in writing in 1377 Prsiewoz in a document of the Episcopal Lehnsgerichtes to Olomouc in proceedings against the vassal Friedrich von Kotojedy for robbery. After the village was in 1389 divided into two parts, united Mathias Felkel of Czech village in 1524, both parts again. In 1555 the town bought Ostrava to the village for 3700. Priwoz remained until the abolition of patrimonial one of the Moravian Ostrava Council villages. After the division of the Moravian Silesian village was from 1742 to 1918 at the border triangle between Moravia, Prussian Silesia and Austrian Silesia.

1843 lived 424 people in Priwoz. The construction of the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway Priwoz 1847 was connected to the main line from Vienna to Krakow. The Moravian station Ostrava - Priwoz was 500 meters southwest of the village in an open field. 1849 opened the Klein brothers the coal mine František, two years later, the first coal promoted.

From 1850 formed Priwoz a municipality in the district Mistek. Salomon Rothschild was built by a railway siding to his Vítkovice ironworks and the pit Caroline, which was completed in 1855. The Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway bought the mine train and built it from 1862 to 1870, Michalkowitz and eventually to Dombrowa and Orlau. Years after 1869 nor the k.k. had taken up the traffic priv Ostrava - Friedlander railway from Priwoz to Friedland, the station had become Priwoz one of the largest railway junction on the Ferdinand Northern Railway. 1882 a bridge over the Oder was built for the road to Hultschin. Due to the increasing mining the village grew, there emerged several miners colonies. The planned expansion of Priwoz to an urban structure was the Viennese architect Camillo Sitte transferred, the for his services received the honorary citizenship of Priwoz later. According to Sitte's plans emerged in the 1890s, a town hall and parish church. For the railway workers and industrial workers tenements were built. In the 1890s Priwoz was assigned to the district Ostrava. In 1894 a tram connection to Ostrava. On 2 August 1900, the survey of 10,873 inhabitants on grown community was to the city. The majority of Germans populated mining town passed a resolution amending the city's name in Oderfurt, which became effective at the beginning of 1903. 1909 took a coking plant to operation. Furthermore, there were a zinc rolling mill, an oil refinery, a machine factory and railway workshops.

On the basis of the urban development plan provided by the custom originated from 1870 to 1926 the workers' settlement at the mine František, 1906-1926 was followed by another on the coke František and 1910-1912 was the third colony on the Oder. After the founding of Czechoslovakia in 1920 to rename the in Přívoz. In the same year was the incorporation of the north bordering Hultshin Land, thereby Přívoz was not a border city of the German Empire more. In 1921, the city had 17,351 inhabitants. In 1924 Přívoz was incorporated as part of plans to create a "Greater Ostrava " by Moravian Ostrava. Since 1990, the district together with Moravian Ostrava the Municipality Moravian Ostrava a Přívoz. In 1991, the city had 4280 inhabitants. In 2001 Přívoz consisted of 357 houses, where 4691 people lived.

Attractions

• Set fire museum Ostrava, 2005 at the former Savings Bank building and fire station of Přívoz
• Neo-Baroque town hall, built in 1896-1897, designed by Camillo Sitte, today the city archive of Ostrava
• Neo-Gothic parish church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, built in 1898-1899 by Camillo Sitte

Sons and daughters of the town

• Hans Otto Löwenstein (1881-1931), Austrian film director
• Gustav Heinisch (1892-1979), Austrian mining engineer
• Hans Schoszberger (1907-1997), German architect

• Place in Okres Ostrava -město
• District in the Czech Republic
• Ostrava