The best city hikes and walks around Rybnik

Mayor of Rybnik from 1921 to 1939 and from 1945 to 1950. The monument stands in front of the city hall.

Beautiful Basilica in Rybnik. I love such buildings

Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua in Rybnik (informally the Cathedral of the Rybnik Land) – a church in the city centre of Rybnik, built in the years 1903–1906. In 1993, Pope John Paul II gave it the title of minor basilica. It is the highest church in Upper Silesia, the towers of the basilica rise to a height of 95 meters.

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Beautiful architecture and cultural property

The building was erected for the needs of the Prussian Royal Post Office in 1905 in the style of the Northern Neo-Renaissance. To this day, it fulfills its original function. After 1922, the image of the Prussian eagle was removed from the facade of the building and replaced with the Polish eagle. https://fotopolska.eu/Poczta_Polska_Rybnik

The name of the city refers to the pre-industrial period, when the inhabitants of Rybnik made their living mainly by fishing, and in the place of today's market there was a large pond, Rybnik. The name derives from the Polish name meaning a pond intended for fish farming. The village was first mentioned in the Latin document of Pope Gregory IX, issued on May 26, 1230, in the currently used Polish form, Rybnik, in the fragment in Kozle castellaturam de Racziborz circa Rybnik. The Latin Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis, written down in the years 1295–1305, lists the villages established under Polish law iure polonico, the present districts of Rybnik, which were absorbed by the city in urbanization processes, such as Gotartowice in the fragment of Gothartovitz decima solvitur more polon solvico, Boguszowice in the fragment of Boguszowice more polonico, Chwałowice in the fragment of Chwalowitz solvitur decima more polonico and Kłokocin as Clocochina in the fragment of Clocochina decima more polonico. Historical documents recorded other present-day districts of the city as separate localities: in 1228 Niedobczyce as Nedobcici, in 1531 Ochojec - Ochotzetz, in 1228 Chwałowice as Falevich and in 1305 Quelowicz, in 1532 Popielów as Popelaw, in 1614 Orzepowice Ożepowice. In 1750, the name Rybnik was mentioned in Polish by Frederick II among other Silesian cities in an official order issued for the inhabitants of Silesia. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rybnik https://www.rybnik.eu/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6prp2a_jhM

Castle in Rybnik - the former castle of the Silesian Piasts located in the city center of Rybnik. It has been rebuilt many times. Currently the seat of the District Court. Although it is difficult to determine when the first castle in Rybnik was built, on the basis of archaeological research it can be stated that it was built at the end of the 13th century. However, it is believed that in the 12th century there was a wooden fortified stronghold in this place, erected during the reign of the Duke of Opole and Racibórz, Mieszko I Plątonogi . Initially, it was probably a wooden and earth structure. Since the later castle was small, its earlier wooden form probably was built on a rectangular or square plan with also small sides. The first mention of the castle in Rybnik comes from 1327. Between 1202 and 1211, the princely couple (Mieszko and Ludmiła) brought to the castle the order of Norbertine sisters, who in the years 1223-1228 ran a school for noble maidens there. In 1228, the Norbertines left Rybnik, moving to Czarnowąsy near Opole. During the period of regional disintegration, Rybnik first became part of the Racibórz Duchy, then of Opole and Racibórz (1202-1290), and then of the Racibórz Duchy again. At that time, the castle consisted of a stone and brick house, built on a rectangular plan, with dimensions of 9.4 x 22.8 m, reinforced at the corners. It was still surrounded by earth embankments, and the ponds spilled around it were an additional defensive value. The castle did not have the character of a residence, but was a typical defensive structure with a permanent armed crew. In the fourteenth century, it was expanded. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamek_w_Rybniku