Osiedle Tysiąclecia (Katowice)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Silesia | ||
| District of: | Katowice | ||
| Area : | 2.30 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 17 ′ N , 18 ° 58 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 38,000 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 32 | ||
| License plate : | SK | ||
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| Next international airport : | Katowice | ||
Osiedle Tysiąclecia is a high-rise building - municipal and district of Katowice . It is one of the largest high-rise developments in Europe. The settlement was established in 1961 when socialist Poland celebrated the millennium of the Polish state ( Tysiąclecie means millennium).
geography
The housing estate was built on the north-western edge of the growing industrial city of Katowice in place of the Sossnina and Bedersdorf settlements and south of the green areas of the new Silesian Culture and Recreation Park . It extends over an area of 2 km², on a winding road network between ul. Chorzowska in the north (arterial road to Chorzów ) and the DTŚ expressway in the south. The Rawabach flows through the settlement .
Construction of the settlement
The Tysiąclecia settlement has many high-rise apartment buildings, five schools, an indoor swimming pool and two Roman Catholic churches. The hallmark of Osiedle Tysiąclecia are the Kukurydza skyscrapers ( corn cobs ), which are the tallest Polish residential buildings in Upper Silesia at 87 meters high.