The city of Havířov was built after World War II as a satellite city of Ostrava on the then cadastres of the municipalities of Dolní Bludovice, Šumbark, Šenov and Prostřední Suchá. Even at the beginning of the 20th century, we would only find a peaceful rural landscape here with grain fields, lazily grazing cattle and scattered buildings. With the rapid development of coal mining and the associated metallurgical industry, the character of the local landscape began to change. From an economically insignificant region, it slowly became an important center of industry.
1. Kotulova dřevěnka
Kotula’s wooden house will introduce you to the housing and way of life of our ancestors from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. It stands in the middle of a panel housing estate in Havířov, thus proving the original development of the town.
Kotula’s log cabin is one of the oldest wooden folk buildings in Těšín, it was built in 1781. The living rooms are equipped with period furniture, in the interiors you can see a number of ceramic products from Bludovice pottery workshops, admire beautiful textile embroideries and mannequins dressed in ordinary clothes of the time.
2. Legio vlak
The legion train consists of 15 reconstructed carriages that will show you the life and struggle of legionnaires on the Trans-Siberian Railway during the First World War. Tens of thousands of Czechoslovak people took these trains. they transported legionnaires across Russia on the Trans-Siberian highway in 1918-1920, and they often had to force their way through a fight with the Bolsheviks and with their own blood.
The train consists of a field mail car, a warm-up car, a regimental store, accommodation, film, tailoring, medical, staff, command, armored car (which is armed to the teeth with cannon and machine guns) and two platform cars.
3. Monument to the Żywocice tragedy in Żywocice
The monument depicts a two-meter tall figure of a mother with a child in her arms, leaning over her killed husband. During the reconstruction of the monument in 1984, a new one-story building completely lined with stone and a new entrance were built nearby. The building houses a branch of the Cieszyn Land Museum with a permanent exhibition titled: “Occupation and resistance in Cieszyn in 1938–1945”, supplemented with thematic exhibitions.
4. Hotel Zámek Havířov
Havířov Castle is located in a quiet part of Havířov, between the train station and the city center. It is surrounded by an impressive castle park and only a few steps away is a swimming pool, the nearby Těrlicko and Žermanice water reservoirs are also attractive for recreation. The guest house provides cozy accommodation in double rooms and apartments for guests of the Silesian city. The building also houses a restaurant with an outdoor terrace, a wedding ceremony hall and several lounges for organizing corporate events.
5. Kostel svaté Markéty
Church of St. Margaret in Havířov-Bludovice is located in the Karviná district. It is the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Markéta Havířov-Bludovice, deanery of the Karviná Ostrava-Opava diocese. The church was included on the state list of monuments before 1988. A brick church was built near the original wooden church. The cornerstone was laid on July 13, 1786. It was consecrated on November 18, 1792 by Saint. Margaret and Saint Michael.
