8 Sights in Będzin, Poland (with Map and Images)

Będzin Miasto is a railway station in Będzin, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. The original station building, built around 1859, quickly ceased to meet the needs of the city, due to the partially wooden structure and small cubature. The modern station in the modernist style was designed on an area of 4800 m² in 1927 by the well-known architect Edgar Norwerth. The station building, constructed by Pronaszko and Sobieszek, was put into use in the spring of 1931, with a two-year delay compared to the plans. For many years, the station was one of the most representative buildings of the city, but later its decapitalization began. The station was in a very bad condition, due to many years of neglect of renovation, but in the summer of 2006 renovation works began. Currently, they have been completed – the building houses the m.in seat of the Municipal Guard.

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The Będzin Ghetto was a World War II ghetto set up by Nazi Germany for the Polish Jews in the town of Będzin in occupied south-western Poland. The formation of the 'Jewish Quarter' was pronounced by the German authorities in July 1940. Over 20,000 local Jews from Będzin, along with additional 10,000 Jews expelled from neighbouring communities, were forced to subsist there until the end of the ghetto history during the Holocaust. Most of the able-bodied poor were forced to work in German military factories before being transported aboard Holocaust trains to the nearby concentration camp at Auschwitz where they were exterminated. The last major deportation of the ghetto inmates by the German SS – men, women and children – between 1 and 3 August 1943 was marked by the ghetto uprising by members of the Jewish Combat Organization.

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Cemetery church Saint. Tomasz in Będzin - from around 1834, brick, with a baroque altar and Gothic sculptures. Surrounded by the Roman Catholic cemetery with the oldest, richly decorated, Art Nouveau sculptures and tombstones. Earlier, from the second half 16th century, there was a wooden church. It was built by the inhabitants of the city of the Roman Catholic religion after the occupation of the church. Holy Trinity by Polish brothers.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Tomasza w Będzinie (PL)

The Będzin Castle is a castle in Będzin in southern Poland. The stone castle dates to the 14th century, and is predated by a wooden fortification that was erected in the 11th century. It was an important fortification in the Kingdom of Poland and later, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Mizrachi Synagogue in Będzin – a public house of prayer from the nineteenth century in Będzin in the basement of a tenement house at 3 Potockiego Street, whose painting decoration was entered into the register of movable monuments of the Silesian Voivodeship.

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Church of the Holy Trinity – Roman Catholic parish church from the fourteenth century, rebuilt in the nineteenth century in Będzin, entered in the register of immovable monuments of Silesia, belonging to the deanery of Będzin diocese of Sosnowiec.

Wikipedia: Kościół Trójcy Przenajświętszej w Będzinie (PL)

Góra Świętej Doroty - a hill with a height of 382 m above sea level in the Katowice Upland, located in the Silesian Voivodeship, in the city of Będzin, Grodziec district, the highest hill of Będzin and the Upper Silesian Industrial District.

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St. Dorota in Będzin-a church from the 17th century in Będzin-Grtźiec on Mount St. Dorota, entered in the register of immovable monuments of the Śląskie Voivodeship. Filial church of the parish of St. Katarzyna in Będzin-Gart.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Doroty w Będzinie (PL)