Załęże (
German: ''Zalenze'') is a district of
Katowice
Katowice (, ) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has an official population of 286,960, and a resident population estimate of around 315,000. K ...
, located in the north-western part of the city, in the central part of the
Upper Silesian conurbation, on the
Rawa river. It runs along Gliwicka street characteristic tortuous course of the
city center
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to the border of
Chorzów
Chorzów ( ; ; ) is a city in the Silesia region of southern Poland, near Katowice. Chorzów is one of the central cities of the Metropolis GZM – a metropolis with a population of 2 million. It is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Rawa ...
.
It is one of the oldest districts of Katowice, which dates back to the thirteenth century. By the end of the eighteenth century the community was an agricultural character, when it began to develop
coal mining
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,
iron
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and
zinc
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industry, which enabled rapid population growth. In 1924 Załęże became a district of Katowice. After the collapse of the major industrial plants in the early twenty-first century Załęże became the center of a residential and service. At the end of 2007, the district had 11 569 inhabitants.
Development depends to a large extent are townhouses and
familoks from the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as residential buildings and services created after World War II. The most valuable objects in Załęże are neo-Gothic
Saint Joseph
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Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church, Eastern O ...
's Church and the Palace in Załęże, the remains of a former farm. Załęże is very well connected by the
A4 motorway and
Drogowa Trasa Åšrednicowa
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runs through Załęże, as well as the international E 30 railway line and
tram
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line .
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Districts of Katowice