Museums
historic pumps and sluice gates in a pumping station over a hundred years old on the treatment plant grounds
Industrial heritage
50-metre Neo-Gothic water tower with a brick shaft and a steel tank
Museums
university museum with more than 25,000 specimens of mineral resources, minerals and fossils
Historic sites
a reinforced concrete truss from 1907, a remnant of the Upper Silesian Narrow Gauge Railways
Industrial heritage in Gliwice means a Neo-Gothic water tower, a museum in a sewage pumping station, geological collections and a concrete narrow-gauge bridge.
The four places show how the city handled water, transport and knowledge about mining. Two are museums and two are technical structures.
The Water Tower on Sobieskiego Street is brick-built and Neo-Gothic, 50 metres tall and 26 metres across. It stands on a hill and supplied the southern districts; it ceased to be used in 1985. The Bridge over the Kłodnica River is a reinforced-concrete truss of 1907 that carried a track of the Upper Silesian Narrow-Gauge Railways.
The Sanitary Technology Museum operates in a century-old sewage pumping station on the treatment plant grounds and belongs to the Industrial Monuments Route, although according to the museum visits are temporarily suspended. The Museum of Deposit Geology of the Silesian University of Technology at Akademicka 2 holds more than 25,000 specimens.
Yes, entry is free. The museum has operated since 1961 in the Faculty of Mining and Geology.
The bridge over the Kłodnica belonged to the line from Gliwice Wąskotorowe to Gliwice Trynek. More such places are collected under Industrial heritage, and other sights of the city are on the page for Gliwice.
