Things to do in Tarnowskie Góry

Silesian Culture Centre in Nakło Śląskie

Tarnowskie Góry

## The Donnersmarck palace The Silesian Culture Centre occupies the 19th-century Henckel von Donnersmarck palace at 1 Parkowa Street in Nakło Śląskie. It was completed in 1858 in an English Gothic Revival style and expanded in 1891. Since…

St. John the Baptist Church in Brusiek

Tarnowskie Góry

Free entry

The wooden Church of St. John the Baptist in Brusiek is a church on the edge of a village among the forests of Lubliniec County. It is a filial church of the parish in Kalety-Drutarnia and part of the Wooden Architecture Trail of Silesian…

St. Michael the Archangel Wooden Church in Księży Las

Tarnowskie Góry

In Księży Las, between Pyskowice and Tarnowskie Góry, stands the late-Gothic wooden church of St. Michael the Archangel from **1498** — one of the oldest wooden churches in Upper Silesia. Five centuries of history are visible at first glan…

Holy Trinity Wooden Church in Koszęcin

Tarnowskie Góry

On Holy Trinity Street in Koszęcin near Lubliniec stands a wooden church of the Holy Trinity from **1724**, built on the site of an earlier temple from **1568**. The orientated timber building, raised in log construction on a stone-and-bri…

Assumption of Mary Wooden Church in Miasteczko Śląskie

Tarnowskie Góry

On Dworcowa Street in Miasteczko Śląskie stands the wooden church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary from **1666** — a temple older than the town centre as we know it. It was built when residents still attended services in Żyglin…

Dworzec Kultury and the Model Railway in Tarnowskie Góry

Tarnowskie Góry

Free entry

Railway service reached Tarnowskie Góry in **1857**. The neo-Renaissance station, designed by **Robert Honsch**, opened on **15 October 1888**. The two-storey, neo-Renaissance brick building on a stone plinth bears coats of arms in the ron…

Grojec Hill in Psary

Tarnowskie Góry

Free entry

Grojec Hill near Psary, in the Woźniki municipality, rises to **365 m above sea level** as the summit of a limestone hill set in the agricultural landscape of northern Silesia. Its slopes contain the Góra Grojec nature reserve, established…

Gwarki Festival in Tarnowskie Góry

Tarnowskie Góry

Gwarki is a multi-day festival in Tarnowskie Góry, organised since 1957 and rooted in the town’s mining history. In September, the Market Square, central streets and cultural venues fill with concerts, family activities, fairs and exhibiti…

Tailings Heap in Tarnowskie Góry

Tarnowskie Góry

The orange-red hillock between the Segiet reserve and the Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry is a tailings heap — a dump of barren rock left after washing lead, silver and zinc ores at the Royal Fryderyk Mine. Heaping began in the **early 19th…

Industriada

Tarnowskie Góry

INDUSTRIADA is the celebration of the Silesian Voivodeship’s Industrial Monuments Route — an event that opens dozens of industrial sites at the same time and turns them into a distributed festival. In **2026**, its 17th edition took place…

Nakło-Chechło Reservoir

Tarnowskie Góry

The Nakło-Chechło Reservoir, usually called Chechło, is a popular leisure destination in the Świerklaniec municipality near Tarnowskie Góry. It was created on the site of a former sand pit: extraction ended in 1968 and the recreation centr…

Blachówka Quarry

Tarnowskie Góry

On **Srebrna Góra hill (347 m)**, on the border of Tarnowskie Góry and Bytom, lies **Blachówka** — a former dolomite quarry famous as the **"Silesian canyon"**: red, cracked earth and rock walls form a landscape unlike anything else in the…

Church of the Saviour in Tarnowskie Góry

Tarnowskie Góry

**The Church of the Saviour in Tarnowskie Góry** stands on the market square and is one of the town’s key Protestant heritage sites. The Evangelical parish resumed its activity here after 1742, and the present church was built in 1780 as a…

Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Nakło Śląskie

Tarnowskie Góry

**The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Nakło Śląskie** is a brick Romanesque Revival church with elements inspired by Byzantine art. It was built in 1892–1894 to a design by Hugo Heer, as the growing settlement outgrew its former chu…

Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Żyglin

Tarnowskie Góry

**The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Żyglin**, now part of Miasteczko Śląskie, has medieval roots, but the present masonry church dates from 1842. For centuries it was the centre of an extensive parish covering many U…

St. Martin's Church in Tarnowskie Góry

Tarnowskie Góry

In the cemetery of the Stare Tarnowice district stands the oldest surviving church in Tarnowskie Góry — the Gothic church of St. Martin, whose walls date back to around 1400. Right next to it rises the later parish church, so two eras meet…

Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Zbrosławice

Tarnowskie Góry

On a hill in Zbrosławice near Tarnowskie Góry stands the Gothic-Baroque church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary — a temple already mentioned in **1447**, known today as the Sanctuary of the Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary…

Iris Meadow in Kalety

Tarnowskie Góry

In the middle of a forest between Kalety-Miotek and the town centre, roughly halfway along Paderewski street, lies a meadow that turns into a blue-violet carpet in June. This is when the **Siberian iris** blooms — a species under strict pr…

Donnersmarck Family Mausoleum in Nakło Śląskie

Tarnowskie Góry

Next to the Sacred Heart of Jesus church in Nakło Śląskie stands the neo-Romanesque mausoleum of the Henckel von Donnersmarck family. The family necropolis of the Nakło line was erected in **1898** to a design by the Viennese architect Hug…

Jubilee Mural in Tarnowskie Góry

Tarnowskie Góry

On the walls of buildings by the transfer centre, right next to the railway station in Tarnowskie Góry, stretches the **Jubilee Mural** — a painting **119 metres** long, the largest mural in Upper Silesia. Unveiled **in spring 2025**, it c…

Museum in Tarnowskie Góry

Tarnowskie Góry

On the first floor of one of the town’s oldest town houses at 1 Market Square operates the Museum in Tarnowskie Góry — the only municipal museum in the Tarnowskie Góry county, with collections of nearly **10,000 objects**: history, art, et…