Industrial heritage
sixteen sandstone houses for miners from 1860-1867, now a service arcade
Industrial heritage
a historic coking plant from 1903 with a coal tower, a tar tank and coke oven battery chambers
Industrial heritage
brick winding tower of the Malakoff tower type from the Gottessegen mine shaft
Historic sites
a heavy bunker of 1937 with armoured doors and a war exhibition, opened several times a year
Industrial heritage in Ruda Śląska means the Ficinus colony, the Orzegów coking plant, the Andrzej headframe and a concrete bunker of 1937.
The four sites show mining, coking, workers' housing and the pre-war fortifications along the German border.
The Ficinus Workers' Colony in Wirek consists of sixteen identical sandstone houses of 1860-1867 on Pawła Kubiny Street, today a service arcade on the Industrial Monuments Route. The estate and the electric light of the district are described in the article Ruda Śląska: Kolonia Ficinus w Wirku i elektryczne światło w Rudzie. The Orzegów Coking Plant, started in 1903, is partly developed as an educational park.
The Andrzej Shaft Tower is a four-storey brick headframe of the former Gottessegen mine, later Błogosławieństwo Boże, of the Małachowski bastion type. Combat Bunker no. 75 in Kochłowice, built in 1937, belongs to the Kłodnica fortified group; it has been restored and is opened a few times a year with a Second World War exhibition.
Sixteen identical sandstone houses, built for workers in 1860-1867.
Visits are possible a few times a year, when the exhibition is open. Similar sites are collected in the Industrial heritage section; the town has a separate page: Ruda Śląska.
