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Brzeziny Śląskie, Piekary Śląskie — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Brzeziny Śląskie is a district in the south of Piekary Śląskie, German Birkenhain, and it was a town in its own right between 1951 and 1975.
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Mining built every street here. Lead and zinc ore drew the people who settled Brzeziny from the middle of the 19th century, and by the end of it every house was brick, which gave what had been a forester's clearing the look of a town. Two colonies made the place.
Brzezina grew first and Górka, also called Biały Szarlej, grew beside the two mines, and the pair of them are what the district is made of. Piekary Śląskie proper lies north.
About Brzeziny Śląskie
What are the main landmarks in Brzeziny Śląskie?
Two schools mark the growth. A two-class school went up in 1878 on what is now ulica Roździeńskiego, and a four-class school followed in 1892 on the main street, enlarged in 1910 with a twelve-classroom wing that is the Miejska Szkoła Podstawowa nr 14 now. Brickworks stand at the other end.
Two large ones were built at the end of the 19th century on the road from Bytom to Czeladź and were combined around the First World War into the Birkenhainer Ziegelwerke, which is what built up Jutrzyna along the Bytom road. Industry left a smelter too. A lead and zinc works went up at the Orzeł Biały mine in 1928, known as the Dworzańczyk smelter.
What is the history of Brzeziny Śląskie?
Around 1750 there was a forester's lodge and nothing else. A few peasants settled in the first half of the 19th century, and about 1820 thirteen buildings formed the Brzezina colony belonging to the village of Kamień. Ore changed that.
Lead and zinc mining began in the district about the middle of the century, the Samuelsglück ore mine opened in 1855 and Georg von Giesche's heirs soon bought most of it, and count Gwidon Henckel von Donnersmarck's Bleischarley lead and zinc mine of 1858 had passed to the same heirs by 1868. Names kept changing with owners. The mine was Biały Szarlej from 1922 and Orzeł Biały from 1934, taking in the smelter built in 1928.
A commune was created by decree. The order of 29 March 1882 made a dependent commune under the German name Birkenhain, its first sołtys was Kazimierz Szwedt, and it answered administratively to Kamień for fifteen years before gaining full independence in 1897. Borders moved around it after that.
Brzeziny fell to the Świętochłowice county after the division of Upper Silesia in June 1922, gained urban status in April 1926, was renamed Brzeziny Śląskie on 1 June 1931, went to the Tarnowskie Góry county on 1 April 1939, became a town on 8 August 1951, absorbed Dąbrówka Wielka and Brzozowice-Kamień in 1973, and lost its independence to Piekary Śląskie on 27 May 1975.
Where is Brzeziny Śląskie?
Brzeziny Śląskie lies in the southern part of Piekary Śląskie, grown from the Brzezina and Górka colonies on the road between Bytom and Czeladź.
Updated September 2026