A square in the centre of Katowice from the early 20th century, a former market and sports ground, today with the Jędruś fountain, a monument to the Victims of Katyn and a plaque commemorating Home Army soldiers.
Plac Andrzeja is a square in the centre of Katowice, laid out at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. It lies at the junction of Mikołaja Kopernika, Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie and Andrzeja streets, and on the west it adjoins the buildings of the remand prison and the district court.
The origin of the name is uncertain: it may refer to a blacksmith from Bogucice or to the Apostle Andrew. Before 1922 the square was called Andreasplatz, and in the People's Republic of Poland it was 22 July Square.
The square has always belonged to the city. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries a cattle and horse market operated on it. From 1905 two Katowice football clubs played here: Diana Kattowitz, until 1920, and FC Kattowitz. Open-air cinema screenings were also held. In the mid-1920s there were plans to put up a new town hall here, but this did not happen.
Today the square serves a recreational function. A fountain has always stood on it, renovated in 2000, which residents named Jędruś. Poplars grow here, along with a hedge of the purple variety of common barberry.
At the junction of Kopernika and Skłodowskiej-Curie streets, opposite the garrison church, a monument to the Victims of Katyn, by the sculptor Stanisław Hochuł and the designer Marian Skałkowski, was unveiled on 24 May 2001. On the prison wall, at the corner of the square and Kopernika street, hangs a plaque commemorating soldiers of the Silesian District of the Home Army murdered in the Katowice prison during the Second World War and in the Stalinist period.
On foot you can reach the Cathedral of Christ the King and the Silesian Theatre from here.
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