Zagórze is the biggest, northernmost district of

Sosnowiec Sosnowiec is an industrial city county in the Dąbrowa Basin of southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship, which is also part of the Metropolis GZM municipal association.—— Located in the eastern part of the Upper Silesian Industrial Re ...

, totally transformed with building the Huta Katowice (expanded, reached as far as ).

History

In the 10th century, the area became part of the emerging Polish state under the

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. In the 11th-12th century, there was a metallurgical settlement in which

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and

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were smelted. The oldest known mention of Zagórze comes from a document from 1228. In the 14th century, a

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was built, and it is now an archaeological site. Archaeologists discovered tools from the

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at the site. In the following centuries, Zagórze was a private village of

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, including the Jarocki and Mieroszewski families. There is a Neoclassical palace of the Mieroszewski family in Zagórze. In 1827, it had a population of 457, which grew to 721 until the late 19th century. In 1842 a

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smelter was established in Zagórze. In 1975, Zagórze was included within the city limits of Sosnowiec as its new district. Before that, it was a separate town in

Będzin County __NOTOC__ Będzin County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It came into being on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its ...

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