Historic sites
Modernist architect's own house from 1926-1930, a stop on the Modernism Trail
Historic sites
early 20th-century villa where Wojciech Korfanty lived from 1923
Historic sites
neoclassical villa of the Kramsta industrialist family, for many years a club of creative associations
Historic sites
brick villa with a tower and stepped gable for a tiled stove manufacturer
Villas in Katowice: the architect Tadeusz Michejda's home, Korfantówka, the Kramsta Villa and the neo-Renaissance Działoszyński Villa downtown.
Four villas in the city centre, built between the late nineteenth century and the 1920s. Their owners were an architect, a politician, industrialists and a factory owner. Seen together, they show a stylistic evolution from neo-Renaissance to modernism. Villas from the whole region are gathered in villas in Silesia; for a general guide to the regional capital, try things to do in Katowice.
Two villas tie in with particular people: Tadeusz Michejda's Villa and Korfantówka.
The villa at ulica Poniatowskiego 19 was built in 1926-1930 as the architect Tadeusz Michejda's own home. It is modernist, listed in the register of monuments and included in the Modernism Trail. On the ground floor lived the family and worked the studio, and the Union of Architects in Silesia also had its seat there. Korfantówka at ulica Powstańców 23 dates from 1907-1909. Wojciech Korfanty lived in it from 1923, and today it holds a nursery school. The master builder Paul Frantzioch built it in the style of a country house.
Two villas stand on ulica Warszawska, at numbers 37 and 55. The first is neoclassical, the second neo-Renaissance.
The Kramsta Villa is a garden villa of 1875-1876 for Gustav von Kramsta, designed by Julius Haase. The creative club "Marchołt" took it over in 1992. The Oskar Działoszyński Villa of 1897 has a brick facade and was put up for an industrialist who made ceramic stoves. People live there, so it is admired only from the pavement.
The oldest is the Kramsta Villa of 1875-1876. The youngest is Michejda's villa of 1926-1930.
It is the villa called Korfantówka, at ulica Powstańców 23. The politician settled there in 1923.
