MY REGION
- MY LITTLE
HOMELAND
Poland is located in Central Europe bordered by the Baltic
Sea to the north.
The total area of Poland is 312,679 square kilometres, and
the population is over 38 milion people.
TOTAL AREA:
12 333,51 km²
POPULATION:
4 638 462 people
DENSITY :
376 people/km²
URBANIZATION:
78,4%
REGIONAL OFFICE:
KATOWICE
Historical and geographical
region in western part of
Lesser Poland bordered by
Upper Sillesia. It is northeast part of Upper Silesian
Industrial Region.
The adjective "dąbrowskie"
comes from the name of
one of most important
industrial city of the region
– Dąbrowa Górnicza.
TOTAL AREA:
37,08 KM²
POPULATION:
58 604
FOUNDED IN:
IX CENTURY
LORD MAYOR:
ŁUKASZ KOMONIEWSKI
TOTAL AREA:
16,38 KM²
POPULATION:
33 556
FOUNDED IN:
1228
LORD MAYOR:
TERESA KOSMALA
TOTAL AREA:
91,06 KM²
POPULATION:
217 638
PRESIDENT:
KAZIMIERZ GÓRSKI
TOATAL AREA:
188,73 KM²
POPULATION:
127 431
PRESIDENT:
ZBIGNIEW PODRAZA
Dąbrowa Górnicza is a city of contrasts. Despite its
industrial character you can see a lot of precious
specimen of plants and animals.
Parodoxically, within city’s administrative area there
are over 60 protected plant species, that is more than
in most national parks.
Dąbrowa Górnicza is situated by the bifurcation of the
two longest rivers of Silesian Uplands - Biała and Czarna
Przemsza.
The first mention of Dąbrowa Górnicza
appeared in 1726 in parish register of The Holy
Trinity Church in Będzin.
In 1795, as a result of the third
partition of Poland, Dąbrowa was
incorporated into Prussia (New Silesia).
In 1799 the first historic map of this area
was drawn. According to the map the
early town was known as „Old
Dąbrowa”.
At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
Dąbrowa was the biggest centre of the
technical intelligentsia in Zagłębie, due to the
School of Mining Engineering called
„Sztygarka”. The history of this school is full
of glorious episodes of Polish mining and
revolutionary conflicts .
DĄBROWA - GÓRNICZ ZWANĄ
A long, long time ago a small village situated between
oak groves was owned by the Koniecpolski family. They
changed the common name of „Dąbrowa” into
„Koniecpolskie”. The property was managed by a very
spiteful man whose favourite saying was „to hell with
you”. The hellish ‘authorities’ were irritated by the man
but they didn’t know how to stalk him to make his soul
burn in the cauldron of soot because he was a very
religious man.
One day he suggested as a joke to a good-natured lumberjack cutting down
a large oak grove. The lumberjack was supposed to be paid after the work is
done. He knew that this job would take at least one month of hard work. One of
the devils took on human appearance and got the job as a woodcutter. During
one night he cut down whole forest and in the morning he went to the owner to
receive the payment. The owner was absolutely astonished and he didn’t pay the
whole sum of money. The devil came back to hell and told about the incident.
That was exactly the hellish ‘authorities’ waited for!
The devil got back to the owner to point out his
mistake. The said as usually „to hell with me if I
cheated you”. As he said that, the devils took his
soul to hell. When Koniecpolski found out about
it, he decided to sell his possessions to the
government. The area was called „Dąbrowa”
again and when coal was found the nickname
„Górnicza” was added.
ECONOMY
The main branches of economy of the Silesian
Voivodeship are services and industry.
The least number of people work in farming and
forestry.
In Dąbrowa Górnicza there is the largest
Steelworks Arcelor Mittal Poland (former Huta
Katowice) and a coking plant Przyjaźń.
Within few last years, on the area of Dąbrowa Górnicza a lot of production
plants and workshops have been built, including branches such as:
 building materials
 logistics
 automotive industry and electrical appliances
 glass production
 heavy industry and plastics
Bankowa Steelworks- a smelting industry production plant with
over 160-year tradition of Polish metallurgy .
Katowice Steelworks- a production plant that deals mainly
with ferrous metallurgy.
The Zagłębie Palace of Culture
It was built between 1951-58, in accordance with Zbigniew
Rzepecki’s project. It was open on 11th January 1958r and initially was
named "Dąbrowa’s Palace of Culture", then the name was changed
into „The Zagłębie Palace of Culture”. Offering a lot of diverse forms
of communing with art and culture is still the main function of the
palace. Apart from this it also promotes and disseminates folk
culture.
It came into existence in 1906. The collection of the library: CD’s,
cassettes, antique books, engravings, cartographies, transparencies,
multimedia, social life records and documents, foreign-language
books.
The library was initially in The Zagłębie Palace of Culture then in 2007 it
was moved to a new building.
The origins of the museum date back to 1912 when it was the residence of
the Museum of Geology. First exhibits were collected by the students of the
School of Mining Engineering. During the I WW the exhibits were stolen and
dispersed.
Through many years the museum was also an educational institution. In 1997 the
Municipal Museum „Sztygarka” was open.
Youth Centre in Dąbrowa Górnicza is a thriving
educational institution . It offers a wide of art and cultural
activities that meet children and teenagers’ expectations.
Nowadays it is one of the most important educational and cultral
institution in our region.
The Błędowska Desert
The biggest (in Central Europe) accumulation of loose sands
away from the sea (about 33 km ²) in the Silesian Uplands. It
stretches out between Błędów and the village of Klucze. In the
north it borders on the village of Chechło and in the south on
the wooded areas. The desert is 10 km long and 4 km wide. The
average thickness of sands is 40m (up to 70m). The Biała
Przemsza river runs through the Błędowska Desert . During the
Second World War, the area was used by the German Afrika
Korps for training and testing equipment before deployment in
Africa.
The Aquapark ,,NEMO”
A recreation and sports centre with pools, saunas and slides
situated in the central park. The Aquapark „Nemo” is the
largest complex of pools in the Silesian Voivodeship. „Nemo”
offers a wide range of various leisure activities such as bowling,
disco, bars and salt caverns – almost for every age group.
Zielona Park” came into existence in 1932. It in the past it used to
be only an oak grove. Nowadays it has plenty species of
broadleaved trees. The total area is 67 ha. With its cosy and
unforgettable atmosphere the park is a perfect place for leisure
activities in the spring and summer.
The Haller’s Park in Dąbrowa Górnicza
The Haller’s Park is located in the city centre of Dabrowa
Górnicza. Between 2004-2005 it was completely renowated.
Also the Aquapark „Nemo” and Sports Centre were open. The
Park is a place where a lot of events are held. (Days of Dąbrowa
and many others).
The Będzin Castle - an important mediewal fortification was
erected during the reign of Casimir III the Great. Repeatedly
destroyed the castle was finally rebuilt in 1956. The castle
became the site of a museum, Zagłębie Museum in 1956. The
museum has several collections: one of armament, from
medieval to World War II times; second dedicated to the history
of the Będzin Castle; third to the castles of the other nearby
castles founded by Casimir the Great (Eagle Nests Trail or Szlak
Orlich Gniazd) and the final one, to the military history of the
Będzin region.
THE END