Nový Bohumín (; , lit. 'New Bohumín') is a municipal part of the town of

Bohumín Bohumín (; , ) is a town in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 20,000 inhabitants. Administrative division Bohumín consists of seven municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 202 ...

Karviná District Karviná District () is a Okres, district in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the city of Karviná, but the most populated city is Havířov. Administrative division Karviná District is divided into five Distric ...

in the

Moravian-Silesian Region The Moravian-Silesian Region () is one of the 14 administrative regions of the Czech Republic. Before May 2001, it was called the Ostrava Region (). The region is located in the north-eastern part of its historical region of Moravia and in most ...

of the

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. It has a population of 12,420 as of 2024.

History

It is the newest part of today's town of Bohumín. First buildings appeared in the middle of the 19th century, when the Bohumín-Košice railway line was being constructed. Residential houses for workers, as well as industrial buildings were built. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, several important buildings were built in

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architectural style. After

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and the fall of

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, it was contested by reborn

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and

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, and following the Polish–Czechoslovak War and division of

Cieszyn Silesia Cieszyn Silesia, Těšín Silesia or Teschen Silesia ( ; or ; or ) is a historical region in south-eastern Silesia, centered on the towns of Cieszyn and Český Těšín and bisected by the Olza River. Since 1920 it has been divided betwe ...

in 1920, it became a part of Czechoslovakia. The settlement, known as ''Bohumín-nádraží'' (Bohumín-train station), was renamed to ''Nový Bohumín'' in April 1924. On 16 October 1924 the Czechoslovak government gave the settlement the town rights. Following the

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, in October 1938 together with the

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region it was annexed by

, administratively organised in Frysztat County of

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. The town was then annexed by

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at the beginning of

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. The Germans operated the E728

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subcamp of the Stalag VIII-B/344

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in Nový Bohumín. After the war it was restored to

. Today it forms the largest, as well as most industrialised part of the town of Bohumín. The most important landmarks are the Catholic Church of the Divine Heart of the Lord from 1896; town hall from 1897–1898; complex of former German schools from 1894–1914; and the

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church from 1901.

Demographics

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Description of the municipal part
{{DEFAULTSORT:Novy Bohumin Neighbourhoods in the Czech Republic Populated places in Karviná District Cieszyn Silesia

History

Demographics

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