A workers' housing estate from 1897-1901 in Bytom-Łagiewniki: 34 red-brick familoks, entered in the heritage register.
Zgorzelec Colony is a historic workers' housing estate in the Łagiewniki district of Bytom, built in 1897-1901. It was entered in the heritage register in 1994.
The colony was built on the initiative of Hubert von Tiele-Winckler, commissioned by the Katowice Joint-Stock Company for Mining and Ironworks, for the workers of the nearby Hubertus Ironworks.
The complex consists of 34 detached familoks (workers' family houses), for two and four families, of one and two storeys, all with cellars. The walls are made of red brick, without ornament. The complex also had a laundry house, and a few individual tenants' sheds, called chlewiki in Silesian, have survived. The colony is regarded as an example of an urban and architectural complex from the period of the greatest development of industry in Upper Silesia.
The first plans to turn the estate into an artists' colony in the 1990s failed, and a partial revitalisation covered 9 buildings. The next one was started by the city in 2020 and completed in March 2024. Of the 34 buildings, 24 were renovated, and a sports ground and greenery were also created. The complex is still inhabited, so it is visited from the outside.
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