Kunčičky ( pl, Kończyce Małe, german: Klein Kuntschitz, till 1924 known as ''Malé Kunčice'') is a part of the city of

Ostrava Ostrava (; pl, Ostrawa; german: Ostrau ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic, and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rive ...

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in the

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. Administratively it is a part of the district of

Slezská Ostrava Slezská Ostrava ( pl, Śląska Ostrawa, lit. ''Silesian Ostrava''), till 1919 Polnisch Ostrau ( cs, Polská Ostrava, pl, Polska Ostrawa, lit. ''Polish Ostrava'') is a district of the city of Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czech Republi ...

. Kunčičky was formerly an independent municipality, in 1941 it became a part of Ostrava.

History

It lies in the historical region of Těšín Silesia and was first mentioned in 1380 as ''Nowe Kunczicze''(?). Later it was mentioned also ''wenig Kunczendorf'' (1388), ''Male Kuncicze'' (1476), ''Klein Kuntschitz'' (1652), ''Male Kunczicze'' (1674) and so on. Politically the village belonged initially to the

Duchy of Teschen The Duchy of Teschen (german: Herzogtum Teschen), also Duchy of Cieszyn ( pl, Księstwo Cieszyńskie) or Duchy of Těšín ( cs, Těšínské knížectví), was one of the Duchies of Silesia centered on Cieszyn () in Upper Silesia. It was split o ...

, formed in 1290 in the process of feudal fragmentation of Poland and was ruled by a local branch of

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. In 1327 the duchy became a

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of the

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, which after 1526 became part of the

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. It witnessed heavy industrialization in the second half of the 19th century, several

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s were dug here, most important was Alexander Coal Mine. According to the

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census of 1910 the village had 4,607 inhabitants, 4,568 of whom had permanent residence there. Census asked people for their native language, 198 (4.3%) were German-speaking, 3,480 (76.2%) were Czech-speaking and 890 (19.5%) were Polish-speaking. Most populous religious groups were

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with 4,352 (94.5%) and

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with 215 (4.7%).Ludwig Patryn (ed):
Die Ergebnisse der Volkszählung vom 31. Dezember 1910 in Schlesien
', Troppau 1912.

Footnotes

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kuncicky Ostrava Neighbourhoods in the Czech Republic Cieszyn Silesia