Strž Hydroelectric Power Plant

The power plant is still in operation and is not open to the public; you can only see it from outside.

The small Strž hydroelectric power plant stands on the Morava River on the northern edge of Kroměříž. It was built in the 1920s and partly uses an 18th-century waterworks that originally supplied water to the archbishop's mill, which was destroyed by fire in 1896. The two-storey machine hall has an Art Nouveau character and a strikingly glazed façade.

The plant was among the first in the Czech lands to be fitted with Kaplan turbines. The first two turbines started running in 1926, and a third was added in 1948. In its day it was an important energy project that served as a model for later hydroelectric plants in the country.