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Zabrze
Guido Coal Mine in Zabrze (say "ZAH-bzheh") is a historic coal mine in Poland's Silesia region where you ride a real miners' cage 320 meters (about 1,050 feet) underground. The museum calls it the lowest-lying tourist route in Europe. Down…
Historic sites
Zabrze
Behind a wall on ulica Cmentarna in Zabrze, modest matzevot (traditional Jewish headstones) stand next to tombs that look like mausoleums from a Christian cemetery. That contrast is the key to the place: the Jewish cemetery in Zabrze, foun…
Churches & monasteries
Zabrze
In the mining town of Zabrze, building a church of wood was a matter of common sense, not nostalgia. When a church was planned in the late 1920s for more than 5,000 Catholics in the Poremba district, fear of mining subsidence settled it: a…
Churches & monasteries
Zabrze
On Church Hill in the Mikulczyce district of Zabrze stands the neo-Gothic Church of St Lawrence, but the parish is far older than its brick walls. A collection of Peter's Pence was recorded here as early as 1326, and a late-18th-century pa…
Landmarks
Zabrze
Zandka is a company housing estate in the centre of Zabrze, built in 1903–1922 in the garden-city spirit for workers of the Donnersmarck ironworks. Around 40 multi-family houses of brick and half-timbering, with steep roofs and projecting…
Technical monuments
Zabrze
A UNESCO-listed silver mine, underground adits in Zabrze, brewery museums in Tychy and Żywiec, the Gliwice radio station and workers' estates where people still live. The Industrial Monuments Route of the Silesian Voivodeship (Szlak Zabytk…
Technical monuments
Zabrze
Queen Louise Adit (Sztolnia Królowa Luiza, roughly "SHTOL-nyah kroo-LOH-vah loo-EE-zah") in Zabrze is the underground heart of Poland's Coal Mining Museum: more than two centuries of mine workings, giant machines shown in motion and, best…
Technical monuments
Zabrze
Maciej Shaft in Zabrze (say MAH-chyay, ZAH-bzheh) is a preserved early-20th-century mine site in Upper Silesia, Poland's historic coal-mining heartland, and a stop on the region's Industrial Monuments Route. A green steel headframe with a…