Dolní Suchá

Dolní Suchá: Dolní Suchá (help·info) (Polish: Sucha Dolna (info), German: Nieder Suchau) is a village in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It was a separate municipality but became administratively a part of Havířov in 1960. It has a population of 615 (2007).^[1] Village lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia.

Village was first mentioned in a written document in 1305.

There was a coal mine in the village. It was founded in 1905 as Kaiser Franz Joseph Schacht. The mining operations began in 1911-1912. After the division of Cieszyn Silesia in 1920 the village became part of Czechoslovakia and it was renamed to Jáma Suchá. Following the Munich Agreement, in October 1938, Dolní Suchá and the whole Zaolzie region were annexed by Poland. The village was then annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II. After the war it was restored to Czechoslovakia. In 1949 the coal mine was renamed to Důl Dukla (Dukla Coal Mine). During the operation of the Dukla Coal Mine more than 100 millions tons of coal were mined. On the 19 June 2008 the last tower of the coal mine measuring 96 metres (315 ft) was detonated.

See also

Horní Suchá

Polish minority in the Czech Republic

Footnotes

^ 2007 Statistics of Havířov

References

"Betonovou věž Dukly skolilo 60 kilogramů trhavin". OKD. 2008-06-19. http://www.okd.cz/cz/media/tiskove-zpravy/betonovou-vez-dukly-skolilo-60-kilogramu-trhavin/?PHPSESSID=a491399d51a273b1075993b761f8938e.

Zahradnik, Stanisław (1991). Struktura narodowościowa Zaolzia na podstawie spisów ludności 1880-1991. Trzyniec: HT. OCLC 189422554.

Coordinates: 49°48′20″N 18°25′50″E / 49.80556°N 18.43056°E / 49.80556; 18.43056

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