Osiedle Tysiąclecia (''Millennial District'') is a district of
Katowice
Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popu ...
and one of the largest districts in
Poland
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. It is located in the northern part of Katowice, on the land once occupied by the villages of Bederowiec, Sośnina and east Klimzowiec. The construction of the district began in 1961 during the times of the
People's Republic of Poland
The Polish People's Republic ( pl, Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1947 to 1989 as the predecessor of the modern Republic of Poland. With a population of approximately 37.9 million ne ...
. The name was chosen as 1961 was a 1000th anniversary of the
founding of Poland.
It has an area of 1.88 km
2 and in 2007 had 23,501 inhabitants.
The district is bordered by the town of
Chorzów
Chorzów ( ; ; german: link=no, Königshütte ; szl, Chorzōw) is a city in the Silesia region of southern Poland, near Katowice. Chorzów is one of the central cities of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union – a metropolis with a population ...
on the west, on the east by ul. Bracka (Bracka street), on the south by the
Rawa and
Załęże district and on the north by
Silesian Park (Park Śląski).
The district is formed by several dozens of high apartment buildings of up to several dozen meters each. The largest of those are the ''"Kukurydze"'' (the Corn on a Cob) of 82 metres height (24 floors), which makes them the second tallest apartment buildings in Poland.
References
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Districts of Katowice
Planned communities in Poland