Brownfields

The largest brownfield in Ostrava was at Nová Karolina (‘New Karolina’), in the immediate vicinity of the city centre. It was originally the site of… Read »

Adjacent to Nova Karolina is the Lower Vítkovice area (so-called “Dolni oblast Vitkovice”). This 150-hectare site – listed as a National Cultural Monument – is… Read »

The Hrušov Zone is a “social brownfield”. It was not an industrial site, but a residential area for workers at the nearby factories and mines…. Read »

The Hrabůvka slag-heap is a former dump site for coal mining waste, covering an area of 100 hectares and located in the southern part of… Read »