Mysłowice

Mysłowice is a city on the Czarna Przemsza River, with an area of 65.5 square kilometres, inhabited by approximately 70,000 people. Here, the tripoint called the Three Emperors’ Corner is located - it marks the place at which the borders of three empires that had divided Poland – Prussia, Russia and Austria-Hungary – met in 1846.

Mysłowice is a city with perfectly developed interconnecting routes. Its central-eastern part is intersected by the A2 highway from Berlin to Kraków and interstate road DK1 from Warsaw to Cieszyn. In 1762 a Glassworks was established here, where, in addition to the production of fine varieties of glass, chemical experiments were conducted. As a result of these experiments, Christian Ruberg invented a method of zinc production, which started to be used on a global scale and was called the Silesian method.

A characteristic, gigantic radio and television antenna is towering above the city, broadcasting RTV signal throughout the entire Silesian Province. Here, the visitors can admire the Poland’s only Fire-Fighting Museum and the largest car market in the country. On average, one thousand vehicles is shown here. The exhibition halls cover the area of approximately 12,000 square metres.

Mysłowice is the home of Bolesław Tync, winner of the award at the 32nd World Exhibition of Inventions and Creative Ideas “Eureka Bruxelles 1993”. He received it for the innovative technology enabling the use of balanced bridges in digital measurement technology.

One of the most characteristic landmarks in Mysłowice is the City Hall.