Historic birch avenue in Katowice's Murcki leading from the railway station of about 1870 to the mine, entered in the register in 1949.
The birch avenue in Murcki is a historic monument in a district of Katowice whose meaning is easiest to understand from the history of the railway and the mine. A road planted with birches led from the railway station to a hard coal mine.
The station building at Katowice Murcki station was built around 1870, but the settlement of Murcki (German: Emanuelssegen) lay much further from it. They were connected by an avenue leading to the Emanuelssegen mine, later the Murcki Hard Coal Mine. Its appearance is preserved on an old postcard, probably dated to before 1922.
The avenue was entered in the register of immovable monuments of the Silesian Voivodeship on 25 January 1949 under number A-141/49. It was presumably located in the area of today's Tartaczna and Cegielnia Murcki streets. The exact course and the present condition of the trees must therefore be checked on site.
A walk along the avenue combines well with a visit to the Murcki Park in Katowice, which lies about one and a half kilometres further.
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