Monument Ostrá hůrka Haj in Silesia (EN)
Vršek nad Hájem, marked on maps as elevation 317, called "Hůrka" or "Ostrá hůrka" from time immemorial, served as a guard hill in ancient times. It gained its modern significance primarily as a place where Silesian people's camps were held during the Silesian Revival. The first people's camp was held on September 12, 1869, and 15,000 Silesians gathered there, who declared their support for state unity with Moravia and expressed their demand for Czech education. Over the next hundred years, people's camps were repeated several more times. In September 1929, a granite monument to the Silesian resistance was unveiled at the site of the camps. However, it was destroyed by the fascists in December 1938. The new memorial was unveiled on the 100th anniversary of the first people's camp in September 1969. The last people's camp took place in 1990 at the instigation of the renewed Matica Slezská to demonstrate the interest of the Silesians in co-building a democratic state. In 1993, the memorial was supplemented with a plaque of Silesian prisoners. The memorial's sarcophagus was also restored and in 2004, artifacts with soil from the battlefields of both world wars, execution sites and concentration camps, including period documents, were placed in it. An educational trail (Padařov) runs around the memorial.
Source: opavske-slezsko.cz