Český Těšín
Český Těšín lies on the west bank of the Olza river, in the heart of the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia.The historic centre in Český Těšín is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone.[4] From 1870 (when the Košice–Bohumín Railway was put into operation) until 1914, there was a construction boom and the districts that forms the today's Český Těšín were built.To calm down the friction which developed, the local governments concluded an interim agreement on division of the area running along ethnic lines.The division line imposed by the interim agreement was seen as unacceptable by the central Czechoslovak government, mainly because the crucial railway connecting the Czech lands with eastern Slovakia was controlled by Poland, and access to that railway was vital for Czechoslovakia at that time.[6] Despite the division being only interim, Poland decided to organize elections to the Sejm (Polish parliament) in the area.After a ceasefire, the entire area was divided by the decision of the Spa Conference from July 1920, thus in practice creating the Trans-Olza area, leaving a sizable Polish minority on the Czech side and dividing the town of Cieszyn between the two states.[3] In 1938, following the Munich Agreement allowing the German annexation of the Sudetenland, Poland coerced Czechoslovakia to surrender the region of Trans-Olza (including Český Těšín).[8] After the war, the sizeable German-speaking community was expelled in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement, and the 1920 borders were restored.[16] The second notable industrial company is Finidr, one of the biggest producers of hardback and paperback books in Central Europe with about 600 employers.The oldest is the Neo-Gothic Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, built by architect Ludwig Satzky in 1893–1894.
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