The Monument on the Site of the Car Crash of Count Gustawa Ballestrem
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At Gliwicka Street in Repty Śląskie, a district
of Tarnowskie Góry there is a granite boulder
commemorating Count Gustav Ballestrem
that suffered a fatal car accident here in
1909. It was Probably the first car accident in
Upper Silesia. Gustav von Ballestrem, born
April 16, 1872 on, was a member of the wellknown family of the counts and Upper
Silesian industrial magnates, originating from
northern Italy.
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