Dolní oblast Vítkovice - Machinery field (Ostrava) | museum, place with historical importance, steelworks

 museum, place with historical importance, steelworks

In 1998, after 170 years of continuous activities in Vítkovice, production of iron, coke and agglomerates in so-called Bottom area (Dolní oblast) was terminated. VÍTKOVICE MACHINERY GROUP is now preparing a really unique project of New Vítkovice that considers revitalization of so-called Bottom Vítkovice, which is an industrial area with National Cultural Monument of Blast Furnaces. The goal is to preserve the industrial heritage also for next generations and give this area a new modern and useful form, build new residential blocks, administrative premises, university, scientific-research and cultural background and leisure time zones.

The project will include reconstruction and reactivation of three basic objects of the NationalCulturalMonument: Fourth Power station, Blast furnace no. 1, and Gas holder.

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Vitkovice Iron Works--museum

Ostrava has a big tourist attraction now! After long 18 years of preparations, a unique area of historical Vítkovice Iron-Ore Works is open for public!

Till now, only the experts or students could enter and visit this area. Now, everybody can see this historical monument. Entering this area, you have a feeling you find yourself in "Steel Town“. The work was stopped and terminated here 9 years ago. Everything remained in such stage, as abandoned and left by workers. You can see a lot of pipe-lines, blast-furnaces, boilers, bridges, ladders, chimneys, and a lot of further iron-constructions. The unique of this area consists in a fact that you can see – in a small space – coal mine, coke-kiln and blast-furnaces. The area is open for public from Fridays to Sundays

www.rothschildarchive.org/ib/?doc=/ib/articles/vitkovic...

For a history of the Vitkovice iron works, see www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/at-kuk-wit...