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The Wooden Church of St Valentine in Bieruń Stary
Bieruń (0.04 km)
The wooden Church of Saint Valentine in Bieruń Stary is affectionately called “Walencink” by local people. Walencik means little Valentine in Polish. We do not know the exact date of its foundation. The first written mention of the building dates back to 1628 and comes from a report of the visit paid by Johann Hoffman, who was the last Protestant dean of Pszczyna. Therefore, the church is supposed to have been founded at the end of the sixteenth century or at the beginning of the next century. The wooden Church of Saint Valentine is situated on the Wooden Architecture Route of the Silesia province.
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The Jewish Cemetry in Bieruń Stary
Bieruń (0.67 km)
In Stary Bieruń old, which is the historic center of presentday Bieruń, there are material traces of the once presence of a modest but influential Jewish community. Most telling are the remains of the cemetery, which are located at Świętego Wita, on the Mleczna river. The cemetery occupies a small, thickly forested area. Behind the wall and the gate you can see about 50 tombstones, the oldest of which are dated from the eighteenth century.
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The Church of St Clement in Lędziny
Lędziny (3.50 km)
Did Saints Cyril and Methodius, the Apostles of the Slavs, come with the mission of evangelization to Silesia in the ninth century? Tradition and many people say that the place where they could have preached the Good News was the hill named Klemensowa Góra in Lędziny. The hill, on which the church of Saint Clement stands, is clearly visible from Tychy. The shrine was built in the years 1769-1772, and it blended so well with the landscape that its image was even placed in the coat of arms of the city.
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Kościół pw św. Franciszka z Asyżu i św. Klary w Tychach
Tychy (6.70 km)
Kościół wybudowany został na planie krzyża franciszkańskiego według projektu Stanisława Niemczyka, zwany jest Małym Asyżem. Cały kompleks, charakterem nawiązuje architektury średniowiecznej a zwłaszcza do bazyliki św. Franciszka w Asyżu. Budowany jest z betonu oraz jasnego dolomitu.
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The Evangelical Cemetery in Hołdunów
Lędziny (7.09 km)
Hołdunów, an old village, is situated within the boundaries of the town of Lędziny. Its origins go back to the second half of the eighteenth century. It was founded by the protestants, who in 1770 moved here from Kozy in Cieszyn Silesia. In the same year a parish with a chapel and a school was established. Soon, a cemetery, which is one of the oldest Protestant necropoleis in Upper Silesia, was laid out. In the graveyard we can find the tombstone of Christian Ruberg, an outstanding, German inventor.
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The Old Foundry in Tychy Paprocany
Tychy (7.10 km)
Paprocany is a southern district of Tychy. It is a popular place of recreation and relaxation. The attraction of this part of the city is the picturesque Paprocany Lake and extensive wooded areas. Hardly anyone remembers that, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, heavy industry developed here. An ironworks was founded by the Duke of Pless in 1703. There are a few brick buildings of the plant, which was closed in 1878, and…an extensive lake.
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The City Park in Tychy With the So-called Giraffe
Tychy (7.27 km)
The City Park in Tychy, which in recent years has been regenerated, is located at Edukacji Street, next to the Town Hall. Since 1975, an intriguing monument has been standing here. It was built in the 70s of the twentieth century, and because of its shape it is mockingly called the Giraffe. The "monster" itself (as well as the circumstances of its creation recalling the movies of Bareja) is one of the reminders of the communist era, when this structure was to be the Monument to Struggle and Labor.
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The Statue of Ryszard Riedel in Chorzów
Tychy (7.41 km)
Although Ryszard Riedel, a charismatic singer of the Dżem group, the most important Polish band playing blues, was born and died in Chorzów, but he is primarily associated with Tychy, the place of his residence and final resting place. In December 2011, in this city, on Niepodległości Street, a two-metre-tall statue of the artist was unveiled. It presents asinger, walking against the wind with a harmonica in his hand. The statue was made by sculptor Tomasz Wenklar.
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The Church of Blessed Karolina Kózkówna in Tychy
Tychy (7.75 km)
The Church of Blessed Karolina Kózkówna in Tychy is eye-catching from afar due to a characteristic shape, which is dominated by the centrally located dome. The building was erected in the housing estate called “T” in Tychy in 1993-2000. It also has a very impressive interior, painted in intensive colors by artists form Katowice, Joanna PiechKalarus and Roman Kalarus. Wood carvings are made by Antoni Toborowicz.
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The Most Holy Trinity Church in Chełm Śląski
Chełm Śląski (7.95 km)
Chełm Śląski is a small communal village, situated at the mouth of the Vistula and the Przemsza, at the border between the provinces of Silesia and Lesser Poland. The landscape of the village is dominated by a stately brick church of the Holy Trinity - the seat of the parish, which is 400 years old. The current neo-Baroque shape of the church, with a high tower, is the effect of the nineteenth-and twentieth-century enlargement of the older facility.
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"Gate of the Sun" in Tychy
Tychy (8.28 km)
While in Tychy, it is worth seeing the buildings constructed at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They are a manifestation of architectural interest in postmodernism. This style, characterized by a loose treatment of tradition and a game of convention, in Tychy is represented primarily by the "Gate of the Sun", which quickly became an icon of the city. Next to it, we can see an interesting bank building, whose shape resembles a boat.
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The Hunting Palace in Tychy
Tychy (8.52 km)
The hunting palace in Tychy is one of the buildings associated with the successive dynasties of the princes of Pless such as the Promnitzs, Anhalts, and Hochbergs. It was built by the former in 1685, and was later extended by the next family in the second half of the eighteenth century. The third of the families, the Hochbergs, founded the Brewery Park next to it. Today, the palace is privately owned, and there will be a conference center and a hotel here.
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