Kolonia Zgorzelec

This article is about a neighbourhood in Bytom. For the Town of the same name in Lower Silesia, see Zgorzelec.

Kolonia Zgorzelec (or simply Zgorzelec, German: Skorzeletz) is a workers' settlement (Polish: kolonia robotnicza) in Bytom, Poland.

Kolonia Zgorzelec Zgorzelec
workers' settlement in Bytom
Birds eye view of Zgorzelec, Bytom.
Coordinates: 50.325°N 18.900°E / 50.325; 18.900
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Silesian
County/City	Bytom
District	Łagiewniki
Area
• Total	0.07 km2 (0.027 sq mi)
Population
• Total	152
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	41-909

Zgorzelec is composed of 34 familok buildings ^[1] and is registered on Poland's Registry of Objects of Cultural Heritage (Polish: Rejestr zabytków) from 1994.^[2] The settlement is located in south-western Łagiewniki, Bytom and is bordered by Szombierki (a district of Bytom) in the north, Ruda Śląska in the west and Świętochłowice in the south.

History

Zgorzelec was built from 1897 to 1901^[3][2] on the initiative of Hubert von Tiele-Winckler^[1] to accommodate workers from the nearby Hubertushütte (Polish: Huta Hubertus, from 1936 Huta Zygmunt) steel mill on the order of the Kattowitz Joint-Stock Company for Mining and Ironworks.