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About Wisła...
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Castle myśliwski Habsburgów.
Mountain volley.
Antique church.
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Wisła – a town situated in the Beskid
Slaski in the Slask Cieszynski area, in the wide-spread valley of the river
Wisla. The native inhabitants of the region are slask mountaineers. The town
area includes the origin place of the river Wisla. From the springs on Barania
Gora, two streams, the Blach and White Wiselka flow downhill where they join
with waters from the Malinka Lake to form the river Wisla.
The city center is located at about 430
meters above see level. The surrounding hogbacks excel it by 300 to 600 meters. Highest landmarks: Barania Gora,
Stozek
City surface – 100km^2, 75% of the area
is covered by woods. The most beautiful specimens of old trees can be found in
the Karol Buzek (Baraniogoski) National Park founded in 1953. The streams Black
and White Wiselka
as well as Malinka Lake are considered a reservation
of the stream trout. The forests underlying the forest
inspectorate of Wisla are part of the Promotional Forest Complex.
Wisla has a population of about 12
thousand people. A large part of the buildings, housing as well as summer
resort, are located beyond the city center in the neighboring valleys like
Malinka, Gościejów, Partecznik, Głębce Łabajów, Dziechcinka, Jawornik, Gahura and on the slopes of the nearby mountains - Wierch Skolnitego, Kamiennego,
Kobylej, Kozińców, Bukowej.
An interesting aspect is that the people
of Wisla are of different confession. Evangelical (50%), Catholic(30%) and a few
other less known confessions. Overall there are 5 Catholic and Evangelic
churches and 4 of other religions.
In Wisla there are 5 elementary
schools
(in the main valleys), a gymnasium, a high school, a catering
business/hotel school and a music academy.
Wisla has an overall of 170km of
road-surface. The bus routs allow quick navigation among the valleys and offer
a
direct link to Katowice, Krakow, Opole and Bielsko.
When it comes to the
railroad there are 2 railway stations and 3 train stopps in the city. On the
Wisla – Glebce rout the trains move over two beautiful viaducts built in the
1930thies through the Dziechcinki and Labajowa valleys. Tourist who come to
Wisla have over a 100km of hiking paths. In the summer there are a lot of paths
for hikers and mountain bike tourists of different difficulty level.
In the
winter – wonderful ski-wondering routes, 13 ski-lifts with 4 illuminated slopes
and 3 ski-jump ramps.
And in the summer a swimming pool, tennis courts,
football fields ect.
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THE CITY'S IMPORTANT HISTORICAL MOMENTS |
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1615- firstly noted in the books of the Cieszynska
Chamber
1915- designated as summer resort by the Country’s
Government
At the end of the 19th
century - the founding of schools in the valleys. First signs of interest in Wisla as a springing area of the Wisla river(Pol, Zejszner) and as a holiday
resort (Bogumił i Bogdan Hoffowie, Julian Ochorowicz, Maria Wysłouchowa, bishop
Juliusz Bursche, Henryk Dynowski, Helena Wiśniewska), large-scale building of
villas, some designed as pensions.
The II Republic – (Michal Grazynski was
the provincial-sheriff/governor) quick growth of Wisla as a stylish holiday
resort. Roads and a railway to Glebiec have been built, river adjustment have
been carried out, the city center (now featuring a swimming pool, tennis
courts, a park,
a spa with restaurant and a library), the Chapel House, the
postal building, the Presidential Palace on Zadni Gron, the sanitarium on
Kubalonka were developed and
extended. Some pensions began working within the
Pension Union, a Collective Bank, a Beekeepers Union and folk-band are founded.
After the 2nd World War – Zietek was provincial-governor/sheriff) the rebuilding of Wisla as a holiday
resort. Many boarding-houses are built, the the Workers Holiday Fund(?) is
created. The city has been electrified and gasified, the railway has been
electrified, a highway to Katowice, a large health center with nursery and
veterinary station have been built.
1962 – Wisla was granted Civic-rights
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MOST VALUABLE MONUMENTS |
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A
tavern from the year 1794 – currently the Center Museum at Steller Street
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An
enclave of old wooden architecture (next to the museum)- a wooden school from
the year 1891 presently housing the abode of most public organizations from
the Wisla-area and a mountaineer cabin from the early 20th century transferred
here from Jonidlo
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Evangelic church built in 1838, an example of classicistic architecture
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The old
school (opposite the evangelic church) built in 1824 with a board
commemorating the compositor Jan Szwiert
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Hotel
“Piast” the first hotel built in Wisla in 1885
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100
year old habsburg hunting palace(from the year 1897). Currently, after the
transfer from Barania Gora in 1987, the adobe of Wisla’s PTTK( the Polish
Local Tourism Association) Set.
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Catholic church from the year 1855, rebuilt and extended in 1970
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Wooden
villas from the early 20th century(for example “Zacisze” and “dabrowka”)
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at
Gymnasium Street
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Presidential Palace on Zadni Gron built in 1930, designed by the architect
Szyszko-Bohusz
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