Theatre and opera
theatre and club in the former Piast cinema with a changing display of vintage cars
Churches and monasteries
a brick rotunda with a shingle roof in the forest between Giszowiec and Ochojec
miniature versions of works of Polish literature in the house of their creator in Piotrowice
Parks and nature
a forest floristic reserve with the rare clasping-leaved twisted-stalk on the edge of Katowice
Churches and monasteries
modern parish church in Piotrowice-Ochojec, consecrated in 2004
Churches and monasteries
a 1970s church built by parishioners, with a sculpture of Christ emerging from the wall
Churches and monasteries
church in Ochojec built from 1937 to 1975, consecrated during the war
Churches and monasteries
small brick chapel on the graves of soldiers from the Thirty Years' War
Cemeteries and monuments
a bust of the founder of the Silesian Centre for Heart Diseases in front of the hospital in Ochojec
Things to do in Piotrowice-Ochojec: a nature reserve with an alpine plant, a forest chapel, a miniature books museum and churches. Plan your visit in Katowice.
Piotrowice-Ochojec is a southern district of Katowice with a varied mix of places, from forest and a nature reserve to a private museum in the author's home and a theatre in a former cinema. It also has several churches that show how places of worship were built from the interwar years to the 2000s.
Three places with very different characters make the best start: the Ochojec nature reserve, the Museum of the World's Smallest Books and Old Timers Garage. Choose the first for a walk, and the other two for a day when you would rather stay indoors.
The floristic reserve covers 25.79 hectares, was established in 1982 and protects a site of a rare mountain plant called liczydło górskie in Polish, at about 290 metres above sea level. The museum is housed in a private home at Traktorzystów 5 and shows miniature editions of Polish literary works, among them a Latin alphabet measuring 0.8 by 1 millimetre. Old Timers Garage is a theatre and music club in the restored interior of the former Piast cinema at gen. Jankego 132, where part of a collection of vintage cars is also on show.
The district has five churches and chapels, from a small wayside chapel rebuilt in 1922 to a church consecrated in 2004. The oldest buildings are the forest chapel of St Hubert and the brick chapel on Grottgera Street, and the newer ones are three parish churches completed between 1975 and 2004.
The Chapel of St Hubert is a masonry rotunda with a shingle roof in the forest between Giszowiec and Ochojec, on 73 Pułku Piechoty Street. The Chapel of Our Lady, called the Swedish Chapel, covers about 10 square metres; it was rebuilt in 1922 on the site of a seventeenth-century one and carries plaques about the Silesian Uprisings.
Among the parish churches, St Hyacinth's Church in Ochojec was begun in 1937 and finished only in 1975. The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and St John Bosco on Fredry Street was built in 1974-1979 through voluntary community labour. The Church of the Body and Blood of Christ at Radockiego 251 was started in the 1980s and consecrated in 2004. All five are gathered on the page for churches and monasteries in Piotrowice-Ochojec.
Yes, the Leszek Giec Monument stands in front of the hospital on Ziołowa Street. It is a bust on a plinth by Zygmunt Brachmański, commemorating the cardiologist who founded and headed the Silesian Cardiology Centre in Ochojec.
The Ochojec nature reserve and the Chapel of St Hubert in the forest. Both lie outside built-up areas, so they combine well with a longer outing.
To the Museum of the World's Smallest Books or to Old Timers Garage. The museum is a permanent exhibition in the author's home, while Old Timers Garage combines a theatre, a music club and a vintage car collection.
Yes. Piotrowice-Ochojec is a district of Katowice, and every address described here lies within the city.
The Chapel of Our Lady at Grottgera 3, which covers about 10 square metres. The other places are collected in the overview of attractions in Piotrowice-Ochojec.
