Places of remembrance
a coal mine from 1899 and the site of the pacification of the strike in December 1981
Places of remembrance
museum of the pacification of the Wujek mine on 16 December 1981, in a historic mine storehouse
Places of remembrance
a boulder with an eagle in Stara Ligota, unveiled in 1922 and recreated in 1962
Memorial sites in Załęska Hałda-Brynów, Katowice: the Wujek coal mine, a museum on December 1981 and the Silesian Insurgents Monument in Stara Ligota.
The three places are tied to the working-class and national history of Katowice. The first two concern the strike at the Wujek mine, the third commemorates the insurgents.
The Wujek Coal Mine runs along Pola Street. It worked from 1900 until the end of November 2021, first under the name Oheim and from 1922 as Wujek. A miners' strike was crushed here in the crackdown of 16 December 1981, and nine men lost their lives.
The Wujek Mine Memorial Room Museum is housed in the former clothing store of the mine at Wincentego Pola 38. Its subject is the crackdown that followed the declaration of martial law, and the nine miners who were killed. The institution is run by the Silesian Centre of Freedom and Solidarity.
The Silesian Insurgents Monument stands where Ligocka and Hetmańska streets meet. It is a boulder with an eagle, unveiled in 1922, rebuilt in 1936 and restored after the war. Its creation was pushed by a miner of the Wujek mine, the foreman Ryszard Centlik.
Other places are listed in the category memorial sites. The district is covered under Załęska Hałda-Brynów, and its places of worship under churches and monasteries.
Once martial law had been declared, miners staged a sit-in strike at the mine. Force was used to end it, and nine of them died.
The Wujek Mine Memorial Room Museum is run by the Silesian Centre of Freedom and Solidarity.
