Stará Ves nad Ondřejnicí belongs to the Frýdek-Místek District. It is situated on the northwest side and is 15 km from the District town. The dominating buildings of the village with 2,464 inhabitants are two historical structures - Renaissance chateau decorated with figural graffiti and Gothic-Renaissance church. The oldest written source relating to the origin of the village is the testament of the Olomouc Bishop Bruno of Schaumburk from 1245-1281.
The local part, Košatka, with 369 inhabitants belongs to the village.
Housing in the village is relatively thin and dispersed. The village is of the Silesian type and only a part of it forms a concentrated housing development with villas.
The characteristic position of the village destined it to predominance by farming factory-workers until recently; before then there was a dominance of agriculture. With the development of industry in the Ostrava region a notable part of population found their livelihood in the industrial Ostrava. Simultaneously, the state changes with the influence of the transformation on industrial activity. Passenger transportation is carried out by buses - the means of transport being limited now due to the increase in the number of automobiles. The main road I/58 Ostrava-Rožnov pod Radhoštěm runs through the village centre. Job opportunities are considerably limited in the village with the influence of the transformation of industrial activity and agriculture; the growth of new job opportunities is also slow. The regional village is slightly undulating, in one part housing slopes into the river basin of the Ondřejnice river, and in the north gradually passes into the plane Odra alluvial plain and neighbours with the Protected Landscape Area Poodří. Around the village the fields blend together with small groves and preserves and in view of the relatively large water resources there are even several ponds in the land register. The catchment area is 20 km distant from Ostrava, to which local citizens commute for work or to secondary schools, universities and cultural events, as well as for their shopping expeditions to supermarkets. The remaining inhabitants commute to Frýdek-Místek which is our District town.

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