Klimkovice

Klimkovice () is a town in Ostrava-City District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has sbout 4,500 inhabitants.
History.
Klimkovice was first mentioned in 1373. In 1766 was in Klimkovice discovered presence of hard coal in the Moravian-Silesian Region.
According to the Austrian census of 1910 the town had 2,696 inhabitants, 2,677 of whom had permanent residence there. Census asked people for their native language, 2,442 (91.2%) were Czech-speaking and 227 (8.5%) were German-speaking. Most populous religious group were Roman Catholics with 2,653 (98.4%).
Twin towns – sister cities.
Klimkovice is twinned with: