Things to do in Ozimek
Ozimek grew up around the Małapanew ironworks, founded in 1754 and the oldest working ironworks in Poland. In 1827 its founders built a cast-iron suspension bridge over the Mała Panew river, today the oldest surviving bridge of its kind on the continent. A few hundred metres away stands a white Lutheran church designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and at weekends the Ironworks Museum shows local cast-iron products. In nearby Krasiejów, at a palaeontological site, JuraPark and the Park of Science and Human Evolution were created. Ozimek works well for a family trip and for anyone interested in industrial history.
Map of attractions in Ozimek
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Hidden gemTechnical monuments
Ozimek Suspension Bridge
Ozimek
The Ozimek Suspension Bridge (Ozimek is pronounced roughly "oh-ZEE-mek") is the oldest surviving all-iron chain suspension bridge in continental Europe. Opened on September 12, 1827 over the Mała Panew River in southern Poland's Opole regi…
Free entry
Museums
JuraPark Krasiejów
Ozimek
JuraPark Krasiejów near Opole is a dinosaur park built around a genuine palaeontological site. Excavations here have yielded thousands of remains of Late Triassic amphibians and reptiles, some 230 million years old, including Silesaurus op…
Churches & monasteries
Lutheran Church in Ozimek
Ozimek
Ozimek is known for the oldest cast-iron suspension bridge, but a few hundred metres away stands a second landmark tied to the Prussian ironworks and its people: a white Lutheran church designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Prussia's most f…
15–30 min
Museums
Science and Human Evolution Park in Krasiejów
Ozimek
The visit begins in a "space dock hangar": a shuttle takes 50 passengers at a time, launches every 15 minutes and carries them 66 million years back, to the moment when life on Earth was almost wiped out. The Science and Human Evolution Pa…