Svinov (German: Schönbrunn) is a borough and municipal part of Ostrava in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic.
[1] First buildings were established in the valley of the Porubka Stream, a left tributary of the Oder River.
Settlement continued to expand in all directions with the years and also solitudes were established, one of them lies right next to the Oder River.
Svinov was liberated by the Red Army during the World War II on 30 April 1945.
Census asked people for their native language; 706 (22.5%) were German-speaking, 2,264 (72%) were Czech-speaking, and 174 (5.5%) were Polish-speaking.