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Encyclopedia Britannica



OSTRAU

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 361 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ORC-PAI
OSTRAU , the name of two Austrian towns in the Ostrau-Karwin coal-
mining
 
district
 . (1) Mahrisch-Ostrau (Moravian Ostrau), a town in Moravia, 95 M. N.E. of Briinn by
rail
 . Pop. (1900) 30,125. It is situated on the right bank of the Ostrawitza, near its confluence with the Oder, and it derives its importance from the neighbouring coal mines, and the blast furnaces and
iron
 -works which they have called into existence. The manufactures comprise
sheet
 -
iron
 , boilers,
zinc
 , brick and tiles,
paraffin
 , petroleum, soap and candles. The Rothschild iron-works at Witkowitz are in the vicinity. (2) Polnisch-Ostrau (
Polish
  Ostrau), a
mining
  town in Austrian Silesia, opposite Mahrisch-Ostrau. Pop. (1900) 18,761, mostly Czech. It has large coal mines, which form the
south
 -western portion of the extensive Upper Silesian coal
fields
 , the largest Austrian deposit.


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