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The Silesian Museum: the 1929 Silesian Sejm resolution and the removal of the collections in August 1939 Kultura i sztuka
The Silesian Museum: the 1929 Silesian Sejm resolution and the removal of the collections in August 1939
The first Silesian Museum in Katowice was created by a resolution of the Silesian Sejm in 1929 and never saw a building of its own. In August 1939 its most valuable collections were taken away, and some of them were lost.
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Silesian Planetarium: Zbigniew Solawa's 1950s building and a monument since 2013 Kultura i sztuka
Silesian Planetarium: Zbigniew Solawa's 1950s building and a monument since 2013
The planetarium on Góra Parkowa in Chorzów was designed by Zbigniew Solawa and built in the Copernicus Year. Since 2013 the building has been a heritage monument, and an observatory with a new telescope and a radio telescope now operates around it.
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Ski jumping in Wisła-Malinka: from the wooden jump of 1932-1933 to Adam Małysz Kultura i sztuka
Ski jumping in Wisła-Malinka: from the wooden jump of 1932-1933 to Adam Małysz
The first wooden ski jump in Wisła-Malinka was built in the early 1930s. Today a large hill named after Adam Małysz stands here, and the town tells of his career in two museums.
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Spodek: an inverted cone on tilting columns Kultura i sztuka
Spodek: an inverted cone on tilting columns
The Spodek was built in 1964-1971 on ground damaged by mining, which is why its hall touches the earth over a small area and stands on tilting columns. The history of the competition, the structure, the disputes over calculations and a name that caught on only years later.
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Silesian Stadium: from its opening in 1956 to the cable roof Kultura i sztuka
Silesian Stadium: from its opening in 1956 to the cable roof
The Silesian Stadium in Chorzów was opened in July 1956, and fans called it the “hundred-thousander”. The history of its construction in Silesian Park, attendance records, the nickname Witches' Cauldron and the reconstruction with a roof over the whole stand.
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Former synagogues after 1945: cinemas, cultural centres, warehouses and fire stations Kultura i sztuka
Former synagogues after 1945: cinemas, cultural centres, warehouses and fire stations
Some synagogues in the Silesian Voivodeship survived the war, but after 1945 did not return to their former function. The text describes buildings turned into cinemas, a cultural centre, a fire station, warehouses and residential houses, and halls that were rediscovered years later.
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Teatr Rozrywki in Chorzów: from the Graf Reden hotel to Polish premieres of musicals Kultura i sztuka
Teatr Rozrywki in Chorzów: from the Graf Reden hotel to Polish premieres of musicals
Teatr Rozrywki in Chorzów grew out of the idea of a television Music-Hall in the 1970s, and it plays in the building of the former Graf Reden hotel. We explain where it came from, how it changed and what it is known for.
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The Silesian Theatre in Katowice: a building from 1907 and a postwar patron Kultura i sztuka
The Silesian Theatre in Katowice: a building from 1907 and a postwar patron
The building on Katowice's Market Square opened in 1907 as the German Municipal Theatre. A Polish theatre has played here since 1922, it was named after Wyspiański in 1936, and received its present name in 1945.
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The “Śląsk” Song and Dance Ensemble: from the Mirowska Hall to the palace in Koszęcin Kultura i sztuka
The “Śląsk” Song and Dance Ensemble: from the Mirowska Hall to the palace in Koszęcin
The Śląsk ensemble began in 1953 as the second state folk ensemble in Poland. It showed its premiere in the Katowice theatre, gave its first official performance in Warsaw's Mirowska Hall, and has lived in the palace in Koszęcin from the start.
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Złoty Potok: Krasiński names the rocks and the Dziad oak remembers the centuries Kultura i sztuka
Złoty Potok: Krasiński names the rocks and the Dziad oak remembers the centuries
A village on the Wiercica with a palace, a park and a manor house where Zygmunt Krasiński lived in the summer of 1857. Where the name comes from, what is known about the poet on walks among the rocks, and why the ages of the Dziad oak and of the church organ should be read with caution.
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