Svinov is an administrative district of the city of Ostrava

Ostrava

Ostrava is the third largest city in the Czech Republic and the second largest urban agglomeration after Prague. Located close to the Polish border, it is also the administrative center of the Moravian-Silesian Region and of the Municipality with Extended Competence. Ostrava was candidate for the...

, Moravian-Silesian Region

Moravian-Silesian Region

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 in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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. It lies on the bank of the Odra River

Oder

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, in the Silesia

Silesia

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n part of the city.

It lies in the historical region of Silesia

Silesia

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 and was first mentioned in a written document in 1265.

In 1847 a train station

Train station

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 was built there and Svinov became an important railroad junction on the Austrian Northern Railway

Northern Railway (Austria)

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. Quick industrialization followed and several transport companies were established. Since then Svinov train station was connected to several other railway lines and today it is the most important railway station in the city of Ostrava.

According to the Austrian

Austria-Hungary

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 census of 1910 the village had 3,274 inhabitants, 3,144 of whom had permanent residence there. Census asked people for their native language, 706 (22.5%) were German-speaking, 2,264 (72%) were Czech-speaking and 174 (5.5%) were Polish-speaking. Jews

Jews

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 were not allowed to declare Yiddish

Yiddish language

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, most of them thus declared the German language as their native. Most populous religious groups were Roman Catholics with 3,075 (93.9%) followed by the Jews

Jews

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with 124 (3.8%).

Svinov was formerly an independent municipality; in 1936 it gained town rights, and in 1957 it became a part of Ostrava.