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Pszczyna

Country:
Poland
State:
Silesia
City:
Pszczyna
Type of Location:
Multiple
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Places to Visit
How to Reach

By Air

Airports nearest to Pszczyna are sorted by the distance to the airport from the city centre.

Rybnik Gotartowice Airport (distanced approximately 25 km)
Zar Airport (distanced approximately 29 km)
Katowice Muchowiec Airport (distanced approximately 31 km)
Gliwice Airport (distanced approximately 39 km)
Katowice Pyrzowice Airport (distanced approximately 57 km)

By Train

Pszczyna is a junction station which is run by two railway lines - Line No. 139 Katowice - Zwardon (Skalite Serafinov) and Line No. 148 Pszczyna-Rybnik.The station has two platforms - from the platform of the first passenger trains usually depart in the direction of Rybnik and on the second platform in the direction of Katowice, Bielsko-Biala or river.Platforms have shelters.The transition from the platform and the platform II is a footbridge over the railway.The building is located Dworcowy waiting room for passengers and ticket offices.

Key places to visit
Lutheran church, Pszczyna Castle, Pszczyna Gate, Museum of Silesian Press, The Castle Museum in Pszczyna, Zwierzyniec Park

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Places to Visit

Lutheran church

is a Parish Church Lutheran Parish in Pszczyna.Efforts to build a Protestant church in Pszczyna lasted since 1709.Built in the years one thousand seven hundred and forty-four-one thousand seven hundred forty-six Promnitz Erdmann founded by the Evangelical community for Pszczyna designed by court architect Promnitzow-Christian Jahn involving carpenter George Prischa.In 1746, the consecrated.At the church school pomieszczono with housing for teachers.In 1905, the church burned down.Lasting until 1907, the restoration architect led Scheinnert (who soon after took up rebuilding the castle Ksiaz).The result is a neo-baroque building at first glance rather nieprzypominajacy temple.

Pszczyna Castle

the former baronial mansion in Pszczyna in Upper Silesia was founded in the eleventh or twelfth century, since then rebuilt many times.In medieval property among others Raciborskie Opole Dukes, Dukes of Opava and Cieszyn dukes.In the years 1548-1765 belonged to the Silesian family Promnitzow, 1765-1847 Dukes of Anhalt-Pless-Kothen and since 1847 the dukes Hochberg von Pless of the prince.In the years 1870-1876 they carried out the reconstruction of the castle through which he obtained his present shape in the architectural style of baroque.Along with the historic park landscaped in the English style with an area of 156 ha of a team of palace and park.

Pszczyna Gate

was founded in 1687 year, the oldest surviving today in an unchanged form part of the castle complex in Pszczyna.Located in the southwestern part of the market was the main entrance into the castle.It was built by the builder Consilio Milius commissioned by the then owner of the castle, Baltazar Promnitz in place of the former the fifteenth-century guardhouse with a drawbridge over the moat.Housed rooms for the castle guards.Soldiers to guard elected by the peasants of Promnitzow from subordinate lands were called just "chosen ones".Pszczyna "elect" to guard the castle 1875 year.

Museum of Silesian Press

is an institution in which the accumulated printing machinery, machine bookbinding and old newspapers.Provides visitors with exhibitions devoted to the art printing.The museum is located in Pszczyna Street.Piastowska 26 in the house from the late eighteenth century.This institution was founded in 1985 year.Here are the exhibits depicting the ancient technique of printing such as printing machines, machine bookbinding and linotype.You can also see here: newspapers issued by Wojciech Korfanty, Stanislaus Ligonia and Charles dip stick.From 19 October 2006 Press Silesian Museum is on the Monuments Route of Silesian Province.

The Castle Museum in Pszczyna

Museum in the castle Pszczyna was open to the public as early as one year after the war-9 May 1946.Visitors could then see the exhibition of decorative art in several rooms of the first floor where issued the items from the collection of Hochberg.In the '60s and 70 a complete rebuilding of the castle and the Interior created Historical Museum - presented in the halls of the castle then residential interiors from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century.As a complement to exposure in the museum that now bears the name of the Castle Museum in Pszczyna in one of the rooms of the castle was opened May 9, 2001 Cabinet of Miniatures and 12 May 2009 in the Gothic cellars of the castle Armoury.

Zwierzyniec Park

Founded at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth century on the site reclaimed the City Park.In 2008, founded here in the Bison Farm Demonstration Pszczyna, which at nearly 10 hectares are present outside the bison: mouflon, red deer, fallow deer and roe deer.Pszczyna Park is one of the most beautiful parks in Upper Silesia.Its area is 156 ha.Park is located along the river Pszczynki which flows through artificially created ponds and canals.In 2005, the are carried out maintenance work at facilities of water.

Right Time to Visit

June - October

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