Katowice – Giszowiec

Giszowiec is a historic mining estate in Katowice, built in 1907–1910 as a “garden city” for workers of the Giesche mine. Its designers, Emil and Georg Zillmann, erected 300 workers’ houses with large gardens, modelled on Upper Silesian country cottages.

We prepared a route with 11 stops. It begins on Pod Lipami Square, the estate’s former market square, and leads to its most important buildings – including the former forestry office, the laundry, the Gawlik Room, the inn, the school and the “Konsum” store, the workers’ houses, the American colony, the water tower and the director’s villa.

The recordings are available in Polish, English, German and Czech.