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Churches & monasteries
Miasteczko Śląskie
For more than a century after the town was founded, the people of Miasteczko Śląskie walked to neighbouring Żyglin for Mass. They only built a church of their own — wooden, with a shingled roof and a covered arcade — in 1665–1667, and the…
Museums
Miasteczko Śląskie
At around 2 p.m. on 17 June 1917, a roar echoed through the Bibiela mine and a torrent of water burst into the workings. The miners managed to escape, but within two hours the entire mine – machinery and equipment included – was under wate…
Churches & monasteries
Miasteczko Śląskie
The parishioners of Żyglin waited almost 40 years for permission to build this church. They applied in 1801, and approval from Berlin only came in 1838. The church, built of local limestone, went up in 1840–1842. It is an example of the ro…
Palaces
Miasteczko Śląskie
Beside a forest track in Bibiela, a village district of Miasteczko Śląskie, stands a hunting lodge built in 1890 by the Henckel von Donnersmarck family, owners of the surrounding forests. Almost a century later it gained a second life in a…
Lakes
Miasteczko Śląskie
Gierzyna is a group of small woodland ponds in Miasteczko Śląskie, protected as an ecological site (użytek ekologiczny) since 2010. Its five shallow pools formed in old sand pits, and today they are a refuge for rare aquatic plants and amp…
Nature
Miasteczko Śląskie
In the woods near Żyglin, a district of Miasteczko Śląskie, a small scrap of an old dune has survived – a flattened patch measuring about 20 by 40 metres. The rest of the sand was dug out in the 20th century for the coal-mining industry, a…