A report on Katowice Voivodeship, Chorzów and Tarnowskie Góry

Katowice Voivodeship
A 1930 plaque commemorating the alleged discovery of the silver deposit in 1490 in the place of the current Florczak House at the Market Square
Chorzów as Charzow on an 18th-century Polish map
16th-century Gwareks' bell-tower (Dzwonnica Gwarków) in the town center
Steelworks at Königshütte, 1872–1875 ("Das Eisenwalzwerk" by Adolf von Menzel)
Arcade houses at Gliwicka Street, dating back to the 16th century
Headframe of the closed President coal mine
16th-century Gwarek House, in which in 1744 the first Lutheran service was held after the end of Habsburg rule, as mentioned by pastor Samuel Ludwik Zasadius
Chorzów in the 1930s
Railway station
Ulica Wolności (Freedom Street), one of the main areas of commerce in the city
Fryderyk Smelting Works in interwar Poland
Memorial to local Poles murdered by the Germans in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
Polish Army barracks in the 1930s
Main post office
Districts of Tarnowskie Góry
Chorzów within the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union.
Liberty Square
Chorzów Town Hall
Municipal office
Subdivisions of Chorzów
The Giraffe, a sculpture at the Silesian Park
Stadion Śląski, the second biggest stadium in Poland
Statue of footballer Gerard Cieślik in Chorzów

Administratively, Chorzów is in the Silesian Voivodeship since 1999, previously Katowice Voivodeship, and before then, the Silesian Voivodeship.

- Chorzów

As of 1999, it is part of Silesian Voivodeship, previously Katowice Voivodeship.

- Tarnowskie Góry

Chorzów (125,800);

- Katowice Voivodeship

Tarnowskie Góry (67,200);

- Katowice Voivodeship

Among the victims were miners, former insurgents and a school principal from nearby Chorzów.

- Tarnowskie Góry

Local Polish teachers were among Poles murdered in 1939 in Chorzów and Strzybnica (present-day district of Tarnowskie Góry), and later in the Dachau concentration camp.

- Chorzów
Katowice Voivodeship

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Silesian Voivodeship

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Voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centered on the historic region known as Upper Silesia (Górny Śląsk), with Katowice serving as its capital.

Voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centered on the historic region known as Upper Silesia (Górny Śląsk), with Katowice serving as its capital.

Pless Castle in Pszczyna
Katowice is the capital of the Silesian Voivodeship
Jasna Góra in Częstochowa is the holiest Roman Catholic shrine in Poland
Gliwice, one of the oldest cities in Silesia
Bielsko-Biała is a major industrial, transport and touristic hub
Terminal A at Katowice International Airport
Silesian Regional Assembly
Little Beskids Landscape Park

The Voivodeship was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Katowice, Częstochowa and Bielsko-Biała Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998.

Among these were Katowice (Kattowitz), Rybnik (Rybnik), Pszczyna (Pleß), Wodzisław (Loslau), Żory (Sohrau), Mikołów (Nikolai), Tychy (Tichau), Królewska Huta (Königshütte), Tarnowskie Góry (Tarnowitz), Miasteczko Śląskie (Georgenberg), Woźniki (Woischnik), Lubliniec (Lublinitz), Cieszyn (Teschen), Skoczów (Skotschau), and Bielsko (Bielitz).