A wooden miners' bell tower on Plac Gwarków, moved in 1955 from the Fryderyk mine, now a replica from the 1980s.
The Miners' Bell Tower (Dzwonnica Gwarków) stands on Plac Gwarków in Tarnowskie Góry, in the town centre. It is a wooden mine tower with a tent roof, entered in the heritage register, although today's structure is a replica from the 1980s.
The original bell tower from the 19th century stood by a tailings heap on the grounds of the Royal Fryderyk Mine in Bobrowniki. After the mine was closed it was moved to the grounds of the dolomite mine in Bobrowniki-Blachówka. In 1955, through the efforts of the Society of Friends of the History and Monuments of the Tarnowskie Góry Land, it was moved to Plac Gwarków and unveiled on 22 July 1955. It was entered in the heritage register in 1966.
In the second half of the 1980s the bell tower was so damaged that a team of conservators made a full replica, because not a single wooden element could be saved. The new tower was erected on the same spot.
The bell tower has a post construction, clad with boards in its lower part, topped with a shingle-covered tent roof, and stands on a limestone foundation. In 2020 the old, cracked bell went to the Museum in Tarnowskie Góry, and a new bell cast in bronze was hung in its place.
On the walls of the foundation are two commemorative plaques of the Solidarity trade union, commemorating the 1980 strike at the Fazos factory in Tarnowskie Góry and martial law. Beside it was planted one of a hundred “Oaks of Freedom”. Right next to it lies Plac Gwarków.
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