Our city - Zawiercie

CITY
Zawiercie lies on the Warta River (the river finds its source here) in the Cracow-Wielu? Upland. It is situated in north-eastern part of the Province of Silesia, in the distance of 43 km from Katowice, 45 km from Cz?stochowa and 67 km from Cracow. Tourist tracks towards Triassic rocks of the Cracow-Cz?stochowa Jura and the track called "Eagle’s Nest" (Orle Gniazda)- fortified castles from the 14th and 15th century start from here. These sites are the part of the Eagle’s Nest Landscape Park (it covers 35,2 km of the town area), which nature is under protection. There are dolomites, ores of zinc, lead, calcium and brown coal in Zawiercie region and its neighbourhood.

EDUCATION
Educational infrastructure is under town authority and it includes following institutions: infants' nursery, 9 kindergartens, 9 elementary schools. Secondary schools - 10 (including sets of schools), extra-mural schools - 3 and High School of Management and Administration was found in 1999. Didactic base of elementary and grammar schools includes: sports rooms, indoor swimming pools, computer workrooms and other objective workrooms richly equipped. One foreign language is taught in every school - mostly English. 

 

WORTH SEEING
• Ruins of the castle Morsko in Zawiercie-???ec, castle probably built in 14th century, in ruin from the 18th century, conservation in 1961.
• Church dedicated to St. Holy Trinity in Zawiercie-Skar?yce, bricked in 1583. 1598, 1678 consecrated. About 1788 and about 1904 dead-house in Zawiercie-Skar?yce, previous garden of Olives, bricked in 1757.
• Church dedicated to St. Nicholas, bricked in the 16th century and in 1867 the porch, two chapels, the sacristy was built to the church and the tower was added.
• Manor-house in Zawiercie-Bzów at Poleg?ych Street, bricked in the first half of the 19th century.
• Jewish cemetery in Zawiercie-Kromo?ów, created in the first half of the 18th century, the oldest preserved tombstone coming from 1730.
• Jewish cemetery from 1911, situated at Daszy?skiego Street in Zawiercie.
• Urban arrangement of the TAZ workmen’s dwellings in Zawiercie.

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS
• Neo-Gothic Collegiate Church dedicated to St Peter and Paul, 1900
• Municipal Library at Szyma?skiego Street
• Railway station-Polish State Railways- from 1912
• Complex of villas at 3-go Maja Street
• Urban arrangement of the TAZ workmen’s dwellings - building started in1880
• Glass-works at 18 Towarowa Street
other
• Bobolice – ruins of the castle
• Mirów – ruins of the castle
• Ruins of the “Ogrodzieniec” castle in Podzamcze
• Podlesice
• “Okiennik Wielki” (Big one)
• Climbing places often visited on Jura (Kroczyce Rocks, Podlesice Rocks, Rzedkowice Rocks)