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Industrial Monuments Route of the Silesian Voivodeship

A regional industrial heritage trail created in 2006 by the regional government: mines, steelworks, breweries, workers' estates and museums of technology. Selected sites below.

  1. Zabytkowa Kopalnia Srebra Tarnowskie Góry · Silesian
    Part of the historic lead, silver and zinc mines inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2017.
  2. Sztolnia Czarnego Pstrąga Tarnowskie Góry · Silesian
    Boats take visitors along a 600-metre stretch of a 19th-century drainage adit; part of the same UNESCO inscription.
  3. Kopalnia Guido Zabrze · Silesian
    A mine founded in 1855; at the 320 m level visitors find, among other things, a concert hall and a gallery.
  4. Sztolnia Królowa Luiza Zabrze · Silesian
    A branch of the Coal Mining Museum with a reconstructed underground coal port.
  5. Muzeum Śląskie Katowice · Silesian
    A museum on the site of the former Katowice mine, with the 40-metre Warszawa II shaft tower.
  6. Muzeum Hutnictwa Cynku Walcownia Katowice · Silesian
    In a rolling-mill hall of 1904 in Szopienice, the complete line for rolling zinc sheet has survived.
  7. Osiedle Nikiszowiec Katowice · Silesian
    A miners' estate of 1908–1918 designed by Emil and Georg Zillmann; a Monument of History since 2011.
  8. Muzeum Tyskich Browarów Książęcych Tychy · Silesian
    A museum in the brewery where beer has been brewed continuously since 1629.

Route source: zabytkitechniki.pl; descriptions based on the institutions' websites (as of 2026-11-06).