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TECHNICAL MONUMENTS<br />

WITH A MINING THEME<br />

OSTRAVA REGION<br />

32<br />

MICHAL MINE<br />

Ostrava - Michálkovice<br />

The history of Michal Mine stretches back to 1843, when the Austrian Empire started to place two<br />

shafts in Michálkovice at Ostrava. One of them was the so-called Michálkovice shaft No 3 renamed<br />

Michal after the deceased c.k. court councillor Michael Laier. It is a particularly valuable authentic industrial<br />

area as to the building <strong>and</strong> technical aspects. The reconstruction completed in 1915, carried<br />

out according to the design of the eminent architect František Fiala, had a fundamental influence on<br />

the shape of the mine.<br />

A unique complex of electrical hoists <strong>and</strong> underground compressors from the beginnings of<br />

electrification, as well as miner´s bathrooms, a former lamp room, transporter crane tracks with<br />

coal tippers <strong>and</strong> a shaft building with cages. The sightseeing route allows you to go through the<br />

same route that was daily travelled by miners when comming to work. Thus, the non-arranged<br />

exhibition has a character of the “last working day“. The operations ceased in Michal Mine in<br />

1994.<br />

+420 596 231 160, www.npu.cz, 100m, 2.5 km Ostrava, 100 m<br />

IV <strong>and</strong> X (SAT, SUN) 9:00 – 16:00, V – IX (except MON) 9:00 – 16:00

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