Ostrava Again Helps Owners Restore Monuments and Valuable Buildings
Subsidies from the program also helped with the reconstruction of the façade on Lidická Street in Vítkovice. Photo: Adolf Horsinka

Ostrava Again Helps Owners Restore Monuments and Valuable Buildings

Dec 04, 2025
Ostrava has been systematically launching the "Program for the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Monuments and Significant Urban Buildings" since 2009. Through this program, it supports the restoration of monuments as well as significant sacred and architecturally interesting structures in the city.
Ostrava Again Helps Owners Restore Monuments and Valuable Buildings
Subsidies from the program also helped with the reconstruction of the façade on Lidická Street in Vítkovice. Photo: Adolf Horsinka

Thanks to this program, owners of selected properties receive financial grants for the maintenance or reconstruction of this architectural heritage.​

In 2025, two calls for applications are prepared: Call No. 7 – Urban Houses and Industrial Heritage, and Call No. 8 – Sacred Buildings. The Ostrava City Council approved an allocation of four million crowns for urban houses and industrial monuments, while for the sacred buildings call, councilors approved a total financial aid amount of 647,000 crowns. Property owners could submit applications for financial support from the program until August 29, 2025.​

Call No. 7 targeted houses in the city listed as cultural monuments, those in protected heritage zones, or with extraordinary urbanistic or architectural value. Individual grants ranged from 50,000 to 1.5 million crowns, covering up to half of eligible renovation costs. Call No. 8 focused on buildings used for spiritual purposes, worship, and religious activities, with support from 50,000 to 0.5 million crowns per project.​

Thanks to the program, the St. Anne Church in Polanka was also restored. Photo: Lukáš Kaboň

„By the deadline, seven applications were received for Call No. 7 and two for Call No. 8," said Ostrava councilor Markéta Langrová. „A museum, chronicle, nomenclature, and heraldic commission recommended approving six from Call No. 7 (one failed formal requirements) and both from Call No. 8, evaluating projects on five criteria based on building significance.​"

City funds for urban houses and industrial heritage will replace windows in a university building on Sokolská Street and a structure on Jiráskovo náměstí. They will also repair facades on apartment buildings at Gustav Kliment Street 496/497, houses at Přívozská Street 157/5 and 28. října Street 207/49, plus window frames and doors at Nádražní Street 157.​

For sacred buildings, grants will restore three entrance doors at the Church of St. Francis and Victor in Hrušov, and walls in the sacred space of the Church of St. Nicholas in Poruba.

The program also regularly takes the Poruba sorela style into account. Photo: Lukáš Kaboň

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