Lower Vítkovice (Czech: Dolní oblast Vítkovice ) is a national site of industrial heritage located in the Vítkovice district of Ostrava in the Czech Republic . It includes an extensive industrial area Vítkovice ironworks with a unique collection of industrial architecture. A set of three successive parts - coal mine, coke ovens and blast furnace operations - also called Ostravian Hradčany , after Hradčany , the Castle District of Prague. The area is registered in the list of European cultural heritage, and was placed on the Czech Republic's list of tentative UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2001 under the name The Industrial Complexes at Ostrava .
5-514: The initial impetus for the establishment of the Vítkovice ironworks came Dec. 9, 1828 by Olomouc Archbishop Rudolf . Rudolph's Smelter operation was then launched in mid-September 1830. A year later there was a coke plant. The first blast furnace coke was ignited in 1836, the second two years later. In 1852, it was near the smelter based mine depths. As time was running six blast furnaces which were gradually shut down until September 27, 1998, when
10-922: Is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Czech Republic . It has its seat in Olomouc . Its cathedral is Cathedral of St. Wenceslaus in Olomouc and it has three Marian minor basilicas : As of 2015, it pastorally served 746,900 Catholics (53.0% of 1,410,000 total) on 10,018 km in 418 parishes and 2 missions with 343 priests (246 diocesan, 97 religious), 33 deacons, 326 lay religious (117 brothers, 209 sisters) and 19 seminarians. Its suffragan sees are : Established in 1063 as Diocese of Olomouc / Olomucen(sis) (Latin), on territory split off from
15-417: The last tapping. After termination of iron production was discussed what to do with the former industrial complex. At first they wanted to destroy it, but it was rebuilt as a technical monument for future generations. In June 2002 government declared Nether Vítkovice area as a national sight. In December 2008, then as one of four Czech sites given to emerging European cultural heritage site. In September 2009
20-594: The project was awarded to the recovery and reuse of blast furnaces and other protected buildings half billion Czech crowns subsidy from the European Union and the Czech Republic. The main objective of the project "Bringing a new use to Nether Vítkovice" reactivation of the main parts of a national cultural sight Vítkovice, making them accessible to the public and the subsequent use of the potential of NCS for educational, cultural and social activities. In 2012
25-499: Was completed the first part of the project and made available to the three basic objects of national cultural sights, blast furnace no. 1, gas tank and building VI. Energy exchanges. 49°49′12″N 18°16′48″E / 49.820°N 18.280°E / 49.820; 18.280 Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olomouc The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olomouc ( Czech : Metropolitní Arcidiecéze olomoucká , Latin : Archidioecesis Metropolitae Olomucensis )
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