A neoclassical railway station from 1859, entered in the heritage register, on January Insurgents Square.
Sosnowiec Główny is a two-storey neoclassical building from 1859, at 3 Maja 16. It stands on January Insurgents Square (Plac Powstańców Styczniowych) and is entered in the heritage register. It was built together with the station that gave rise to the town.
The station was opened on 24 August 1859 at the junction of the Warsaw-Vienna Railway with the Upper Silesian Railway as a large border station with a customs house. After the connection opened, most of the freight traffic between Prussia and the Kingdom of Poland went through Sosnowiec rather than through Maczki. In 1868 the station handled 25 times more goods and three times more passengers than Granica station. Banks, hotels and shops sprang up around it, and the town received its town rights in 1902.
The station was probably built to a design by the Italian architect Henryk Marconi, and its plan was modelled on the Vienna Station building in Warsaw. Classical forms dominate. Inside were waiting rooms of three classes, rooms for dignitaries, a customs dispatch office, a passport office, apartments and a restaurant. Before the First World War a main hall and a new entrance were added. In the 1960s and 1970s, in turn, part of the building on the north-eastern side was demolished, and in 1997-2002 the interiors and facade were renovated. In 2005-2012 the station was on the Industrial Monuments Route of the Silesian Voivodeship.
On the night of 6 to 7 February 1863 a battle took place at the station between the January Uprising insurgents and the Russian garrison. The insurgents arrived from Maczki by train, took the station and the customs house, and the square in front of the building today bears the name of the January Insurgents.
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