Dolní Suchá

Dolní Suchá (help·info) (Polish: Sucha Dolna (info), German: Nieder Suchau) is a village in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It was a separate municipality but became administratively a part of Havířov in 1960. It has a population of 615 (2007). Village lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. Village was first mentioned in a written document in 1305. There was a coal mine in the village. It was founded in 1905 as Kaiser Franz Joseph Schacht. The mining operations began in 1911-1912. After the division of Cieszyn Silesia in 1920 the village became part of Czechoslovakia and it was renamed to Jáma Suchá. Following the Munich Agreement, in October 1938, Dolní Suchá and the whole Zaolzie region were...