If you don't know our city and, in spite of this, you are still interested in buying some flat here - read some useful hints below.
Of course each village, city or metropolis has its better and worse residentional districts. Prices on real estate market are the result of many different factors: location, type of buliding, its age and technical condition, infrastructure and facilieties availability, neighbourhood, finally - fashion tendencies (some places are or will just become fashionable... and expensive...)
Before you buy any poperty in the capital of Upper Silesia - you should know there are few districts of very good reputation and some, you shouldn't explore when it's dark.
So read carefully, please, here is my private rank.
On the top you will find southern part of the center. The beginning of Katowice as the biggest industrial city in Silesia came back to the XIXth century. In the center you can find many tenement houses from the end of the XIX and first years of the XXth century. Remember one useful Polish word - "kamienica" - it's the name of this kind of buildings, in contrary to modern blocks of flats called "blok, bloki" or old workers-houses named by aboriginal Silesiamen in their dialect "familoki" (sounds familiar? yes, this name means: houses for family).The most representative streets with old architecture objects are for example 3 Maja Str., Slowackiego, Warszawska, Kosciuszki, Jagiellońska Str. If you are visiting our city as a turist you should make a sightseeing tour by these streets. Pay attention to monuments: the Mickiewicz High School built in neogothic style, the Silesian Theatre in The Central Place, the Neo-Romanesque Evangelical Church inWarszawska Str., the most beautiful in Katowice neogothic Church of the Immaculate Conception of St. Mary the Virgin, built in 1862-70 in Mariacka Str.
You shouldn't omit some younger but interesting buildings- the Silesian Technical University in Krasinskiego Str., built in 1928-32 in style joined classicism and functionalism, and administrative centre of Katowice on Sejm Slaski Square - with The Silesian Parliament and Regional Authority from 1925-29 and the Languages Department of the Silesian University built in 1936. Worthseeing is also the Arch-cathedral of Christ the King, built during 1926-56 and the "skyscraper" built in Zwirki i Wigury Str. 1930-32, a 14-storey tall highrise, Poland's tallest building at that time.
If you don't like car traffic and are looking for peaceful, quiet apartment in an old stylish tenement house - look for something in the neighbourhood of the Arch-cathedral - in Wita Stwosza Str., Jordana Str. or a little bit further - Bratków, Astrów, Narcyzów, Różana Str. Especially last four of them are famous for nice, stylish buildings from 20's and 30's of the XXth century, projected for local elites- lawyers, engineers, doctors. Similar buildings, typical for modernism and functionalism can be found on the opposite site of Kosciuszki Str., for example in PCK Str., Stelmacha, Zajaczka, Rymera Str. This part of the center has been said to be the most attractive, elegant and prestigous district in Katowice, from the beginning of the XXth century - till today.
Of course each village, city or metropolis has its better and worse residentional districts. Prices on real estate market are the result of many different factors: location, type of buliding, its age and technical condition, infrastructure and facilieties availability, neighbourhood, finally - fashion tendencies (some places are or will just become fashionable... and expensive...)
Before you buy any poperty in the capital of Upper Silesia - you should know there are few districts of very good reputation and some, you shouldn't explore when it's dark.
So read carefully, please, here is my private rank.
On the top you will find southern part of the center. The beginning of Katowice as the biggest industrial city in Silesia came back to the XIXth century. In the center you can find many tenement houses from the end of the XIX and first years of the XXth century. Remember one useful Polish word - "kamienica" - it's the name of this kind of buildings, in contrary to modern blocks of flats called "blok, bloki" or old workers-houses named by aboriginal Silesiamen in their dialect "familoki" (sounds familiar? yes, this name means: houses for family).The most representative streets with old architecture objects are for example 3 Maja Str., Slowackiego, Warszawska, Kosciuszki, Jagiellońska Str. If you are visiting our city as a turist you should make a sightseeing tour by these streets. Pay attention to monuments: the Mickiewicz High School built in neogothic style, the Silesian Theatre in The Central Place, the Neo-Romanesque Evangelical Church inWarszawska Str., the most beautiful in Katowice neogothic Church of the Immaculate Conception of St. Mary the Virgin, built in 1862-70 in Mariacka Str.
You shouldn't omit some younger but interesting buildings- the Silesian Technical University in Krasinskiego Str., built in 1928-32 in style joined classicism and functionalism, and administrative centre of Katowice on Sejm Slaski Square - with The Silesian Parliament and Regional Authority from 1925-29 and the Languages Department of the Silesian University built in 1936. Worthseeing is also the Arch-cathedral of Christ the King, built during 1926-56 and the "skyscraper" built in Zwirki i Wigury Str. 1930-32, a 14-storey tall highrise, Poland's tallest building at that time.
If you don't like car traffic and are looking for peaceful, quiet apartment in an old stylish tenement house - look for something in the neighbourhood of the Arch-cathedral - in Wita Stwosza Str., Jordana Str. or a little bit further - Bratków, Astrów, Narcyzów, Różana Str. Especially last four of them are famous for nice, stylish buildings from 20's and 30's of the XXth century, projected for local elites- lawyers, engineers, doctors. Similar buildings, typical for modernism and functionalism can be found on the opposite site of Kosciuszki Str., for example in PCK Str., Stelmacha, Zajaczka, Rymera Str. This part of the center has been said to be the most attractive, elegant and prestigous district in Katowice, from the beginning of the XXth century - till today.
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