11 Sights in Ostrava, Czechia (with Map and Images)

The Evangelical Church of Christ in Ostrava is a church built between 1905 and 1907 in a historicist style loosely inspired by the Romanesque and Gothic styles. The building, also called the Red Church, is one of Ostrava's important monuments, and has been included in the central list of cultural monuments of the Czech Republic.

Wikipedia: Evangelický Kristův kostel (Ostrava) (CS)

The Landek Park Mining Museum is the largest corporate museum in the Czech Republic. It is located in Petřkovice near Ostrava under Landek Hill. Part of the complex is also located in nearby Koblov. The local continuous area has an area of 10 hectares, which makes it the largest museum complex in the whole country. The museum was opened on December 4, 1993, symbolically on the feast of the patron saint of miners, St. Barbara. The site, proposed for inclusion in the UNESCO list, contains the well-preserved area of the Anselm Mine. In addition to the surface exhibition of machinery and equipment, the underground exhibition and the mining rescue exhibition, we can also find a reconstruction of the mammoth hunters' settlement. There are also numerous sports facilities in the area, such as a beach volleyball court, tennis courts and a cyclo-cross track. The total area of the complex is about ten hectares. There is a chapel of St. Barbara in the area.

Wikipedia: Hornické muzeum Landek Park (CS), Website

The Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria is a church in the Hrabová district of Ostrava. The wooden church of st. It was built in the second quarter of the 16th century in the late Gothic style with early Renaissance elements. Probably due to a defect in the wiring, it burned to the ground on April 2, 2002. Subsequently, it was restored as a period copy using fragments of the original building. The restoration of the church was completed in 2004. The ceremonial handover of the keys to the church to the local Roman Catholic parish together with the consecration of new bells consecrated to St. Vitus. Francis of Assisi and St. Klára took place on October 30, 2004. Subsequently, the church was solemnly consecrated on 27 November by the Bishop of Ostrava-Opava, František Václav Lobkowicz.

Wikipedia: Kostel svaté Kateřiny (Ostrava) (CS)

The Roman Catholic Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary is an important neo-Gothic building in Ostrava. It is located on Svatopluk Čech Square in Přívoz and is the second church dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary in Ostrava.

Wikipedia: Kostel Neposkvrněného početí Panny Marie (Ostrava-Přívoz) (CS), Website

The Church of St. Joseph, whose patrons are st. Joseph and Our Lady of Carmel, stands on a hill southeast of the former settlement of Polish Ostrava, by the former imperial road from Ostrava through Těrlicko to Těšín, and occupies the most beautiful place in the village. Today, this church is in the cadastre and in the city district of Slezská Ostrava.

Wikipedia: Kostel svatého Josefa (Slezská Ostrava) (CS)

Silesian Ostrava Castle is a castle located in Ostrava, in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It was originally built in the 1280s for military purposes, near the confluence of the Lučina and Ostravice rivers, near the Polish border.

Wikipedia: Silesian Ostrava Castle (EN)

The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is the oldest Marian church in the city of Ostrava and the second church in Ostrava dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. It has been a protected monument since 2 March 2011.

Wikipedia: Kostel Nanebevzetí Panny Marie (Třebovice) (CS)

The Church of the Holy Spirit is located in the Ostrava district of South, specifically in Zábřeh. The building stands on the site where the church was supposed to stand in 1968. On May 25, 2004, the church and the land were blessed by the Bishop of Ostrava-Opava, František Lobkowicz. On 18 May 2024, a new organ was blessed here by the Bishop of Ostrava-Opava, Martin David.

Wikipedia: Kostel svatého Ducha (Ostrava) (CS)

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.

Wikipedia: Lower Vítkovice (EN), Website

The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary is located in the Radvanice district of Ostrava and is the second church dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary in Ostrava.

Wikipedia: Kostel Neposkvrněného početí Panny Marie (Ostrava-Radvanice) (CS)

The Hussite Congregation of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church in Ostrava-Michálkovice is a religious building located on the southern edge of Michalské Square in Ostrava-Michálkovice. The construction plan was drawn up by the builder Otmar Pazourek from Moravská Ostrava. On November 10, 1924, excavation work began on the construction of the Hussite Congregation. After the construction of the retaining wall, the foundation stone was laid on May 17, 1925 with a memorial deed with the extraordinary participation of the citizens of Michálkovice. The construction of the church itself faced considerable financial problems, which had an adverse effect on the length of the building. Therefore, the Christmas services in 1926 were held in an unfinished building. In mid-1927, a loan was used to ensure the completion of the construction. The ceremonial opening of the brigade took place on September 11, 1927.

Wikipedia: Husův sbor v Ostravě-Michálkovicích (CS)