Crafts

Young tramps were picturing the countryside rugged with a canyon of the Sázava river as the Wild West, as they were imagining it while reading adventure novels by E.T.Seton and Jack London. They...

Tatra Kopřivnice. Company was established in 1850 by Ignác Šustala, who started producing carriages and coaches in a small family company. Step by step, the company expanded and began to focus...

A mining of the ore containing copper, tin, silver, lead and iron, belongs to this country since forever. Later also a mining of the cobalt, nickel and tungsten followed. In the course of centuries...

Morning mists, silent afternoons and night concerts of frogs. The first ponds were founded in the second half of the 14th century and the golden era came in the 16th century with names Štěpánek...

Wafers and biscuits manufacturing. A cloth weaver Kašpar Melchior Baltasar Fiedor, who settled down in Opava with his wife around 1840, baked the first sugar wafer in Opava in the half of 19th...

Tradition of the hat manufacturing in Kravařsko is connected with three families, three companies and three manufactories. In 1868, the company Hutfabrik Johann Hückel´s Söhne was established...