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Reksio Monument – Bridge of Several Borders loop from Bielsko-Biała
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Reksio Monument – Bridge of Several Borders loop from Bielsko-Biała
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Reksio Monument – Bridge of Several Borders loop from Bielsko-Biała
00:53
3.32km
40m
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Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: April 18, 2026
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465 m
Old Market Square, Bielsko-Biała
Highlight • Historical Site
Market Square - the main square of the Old Town in Bielsko-Biała (in the administrative district of Śródmieście Bielsko), located in the central part of the so-called Wzgórze Miejskie, where the medieval city of Bielsko is located.
It is a rectangular square, sloping to the east, with dimensions of 82 x 43 m.
Two streets emerge from the corners, in the latitudinal and meridional directions (north-east: Podcienie and Słowackiego, south-east: Wzgórze and Schodowa, south-west: Cieszyńska and Kościelna, north-west: Celna and Kręta).
Its shape has not changed since the city was founded in the 12th century, and the buildings come mainly from the 17th and 18th centuries. Since 1953, the urban layout of the Old Town has been entered in the register of monuments. Since 1960, all tenement houses at the Market Square have had the status of a monument.
The Bielsko Market Square, the center of a medieval town with a typical urban layout of Silesian towns, was built in the times of settlement under the Magdeburg Law.
From the Middle Ages there was a wooden town hall in the market square until the 16th century, a well with a stone lining, a building of the municipal weight, weekly markets and fairs were held here three times a year.
Until the great devastating fires of 1659 and 1664, the town had only wooden buildings, with the exception of the castle and the church. After these disasters, brick houses were built, which were also consumed by fires in 1808 and 1836. In the 14th century, the town center was surrounded by a stone wall with three towers embedded in it. The second line of walls was built in 1521.
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rynek_w_Bielsku-Bia%C5%82ej
It is a rectangular square, sloping to the east, with dimensions of 82 x 43 m.
Two streets emerge from the corners, in the latitudinal and meridional directions (north-east: Podcienie and Słowackiego, south-east: Wzgórze and Schodowa, south-west: Cieszyńska and Kościelna, north-west: Celna and Kręta).
Its shape has not changed since the city was founded in the 12th century, and the buildings come mainly from the 17th and 18th centuries. Since 1953, the urban layout of the Old Town has been entered in the register of monuments. Since 1960, all tenement houses at the Market Square have had the status of a monument.
The Bielsko Market Square, the center of a medieval town with a typical urban layout of Silesian towns, was built in the times of settlement under the Magdeburg Law.
From the Middle Ages there was a wooden town hall in the market square until the 16th century, a well with a stone lining, a building of the municipal weight, weekly markets and fairs were held here three times a year.
Until the great devastating fires of 1659 and 1664, the town had only wooden buildings, with the exception of the castle and the church. After these disasters, brick houses were built, which were also consumed by fires in 1808 and 1836. In the 14th century, the town center was surrounded by a stone wall with three towers embedded in it. The second line of walls was built in 1521.
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rynek_w_Bielsku-Bia%C5%82ej
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738 m
Podcienie Street (Arcade Alley)
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3
1.47 km
Lolek and Bolek Statue
Highlight • Monument
More information under the following link:
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolek_und_Bolek
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolek_und_Bolek
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2.12 km
Characters from the cartoon THE ABDUCTION OF BALTAZAR GĄBKA
Highlight • Monument
Fairy Tale Bielsko-Biała has a new sculpture - the Wawel Dragon and the cook Bartolini Bartłomiej of the Zielona Pietruszka coat of arms. On December 3, the monument was officially unveiled. See where you can find the heroes of "Abduction of Baltazar Spąbka".
The Monument to the Dragon of Wawel and Bartholomew Bartolini was erected at ul. On November 11, at the Polish Army Square. The youngest ones will surely like the car of the heroes, which you can get into. This is the fourth sculpture on the fairy tale trail of the Cartoon Film Studio in Bielsko-Biała. The author of the monument models is the sculptor Lidia Sztwiernia.
The sculpture refers to the series "Abduction of Baltazar Gąbka", based on the novel by Stanisław Pagaczewski. The Wawel Dragon and Bartolini the cook are standing by the car in which they traveled through the Land of the Rains in search of the lost scientist Baltazar Gąbka.
We will also find the figure of Don Pedro, a spy from the Land of Rainforests.
silesiadzieci.pl/artykul/8862/bartolini-bartlomiej-i-smok-wawelski-w-bielsku
The Monument to the Dragon of Wawel and Bartholomew Bartolini was erected at ul. On November 11, at the Polish Army Square. The youngest ones will surely like the car of the heroes, which you can get into. This is the fourth sculpture on the fairy tale trail of the Cartoon Film Studio in Bielsko-Biała. The author of the monument models is the sculptor Lidia Sztwiernia.
The sculpture refers to the series "Abduction of Baltazar Gąbka", based on the novel by Stanisław Pagaczewski. The Wawel Dragon and Bartolini the cook are standing by the car in which they traveled through the Land of the Rains in search of the lost scientist Baltazar Gąbka.
We will also find the figure of Don Pedro, a spy from the Land of Rainforests.
silesiadzieci.pl/artykul/8862/bartolini-bartlomiej-i-smok-wawelski-w-bielsku
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2.35 km
Reksio Monument
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More information under the following link:
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reksio
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reksio
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2.37 km
Bridge of Several Borders
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The beginnings of the present 11 Listopada Street, and the bridge over the Biała River belonging to it, date back to the mid-18th century, when a new road was marked out, whose task was to connect Bielsko with the Biała Market Square - the present Wojska Polskiego Square.
At the end of the 18th century, the road was incorporated into the imperial, Middle-Galician road connecting Biała with Lviv and was given the name Hauptstraße - Główna.
In the same period, a new truss bridge was built in place of the old wooden bridge. The bridge existed until February 1945 and was blown up by the retreating German troops. The old truss bridge was never rebuilt.
Due to the fact that the Biała River over the centuries was a border between principalities, states and cities, the bridge was a border bridge for many years.
In the years 1457-1526, the river was the border between Biała, which belonged to the Kingdom of Poland, and Bielsko, which was part of the Czech Kingdom, which in 1526 was incorporated into the Austrian state. As a result of these activities, the bridge over the Biała River functioned as a border bridge between the Polish and Austrian states for the next 200 years.
In 1772, after the first partition of Poland, Biała and Bielsko found themselves in one country for the first time - Austria. From then on, until Poland regained independence, the border between Galicia and Austrian Silesia ran across the bridge.
After Poland regained independence, the bridge was the border between the cities of Bielsko and Biała, and thus between the Śląskie and Kraków voivodships. This border ceased to exist on January 1, 1951, when the cities were merged into one - Bielsko-Biała.
bielsko.yarki.pl/rzeka-i-most-kilku-granic-w-centrum-miasta
At the end of the 18th century, the road was incorporated into the imperial, Middle-Galician road connecting Biała with Lviv and was given the name Hauptstraße - Główna.
In the same period, a new truss bridge was built in place of the old wooden bridge. The bridge existed until February 1945 and was blown up by the retreating German troops. The old truss bridge was never rebuilt.
Due to the fact that the Biała River over the centuries was a border between principalities, states and cities, the bridge was a border bridge for many years.
In the years 1457-1526, the river was the border between Biała, which belonged to the Kingdom of Poland, and Bielsko, which was part of the Czech Kingdom, which in 1526 was incorporated into the Austrian state. As a result of these activities, the bridge over the Biała River functioned as a border bridge between the Polish and Austrian states for the next 200 years.
In 1772, after the first partition of Poland, Biała and Bielsko found themselves in one country for the first time - Austria. From then on, until Poland regained independence, the border between Galicia and Austrian Silesia ran across the bridge.
After Poland regained independence, the bridge was the border between the cities of Bielsko and Biała, and thus between the Śląskie and Kraków voivodships. This border ceased to exist on January 1, 1951, when the cities were merged into one - Bielsko-Biała.
bielsko.yarki.pl/rzeka-i-most-kilku-granic-w-centrum-miasta
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2.69 km
Troje Dzieci Fountain, Plac Bolesława Chrobrego
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2.75 km
Sulkowski Castle
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The castle rising in the center of Bielsko-Biała is the oldest and largest historic building in the historic city of Bielsko. According to legend, in its place there used to be a stronghold of robbers attacking traveling merchants. The Duke of Opole, Kazimierz († 1229/30), was to capture this fortress and exterminate the robbers, and erect a hunting manor in this place, which was later expanded into a magnificent castle, next to which the city developed.
There is a grain of truth in every legend. Archaeological research confirms that there was probably a wooden castle in the place of today's castle in the 13th century. It acted as a watchtower guarding the crossing over the Biała River and the intersections of important trade routes: the salt route from Kraków to Cieszyn, to Moravia and the Czech Republic, and the route from Upper Silesia through Żywiec to Hungary. In the second half of the fourteenth century, the watchtower, destroyed by fire, was replaced by a brick castle, erected by the Duke of Cieszyn, Przemysław I Noszak († 1410). The building, from the beginning included in the Bielsko fortification system, being the strongest element of its fortifications, represented the type of the so-called city castle. At the same time, it played an important role as a Silesian border fortress: the nearby Biała River divided the district principalities of Cieszyn and Oświęcim from 1316, it became the Czech-Polish state border in the mid-15th century, and in the years 1526–1772 it separated the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The castle in Bielsko, gradually expanded and transformed over time, served as one of the seats of the Cieszyn Piasts for over two centuries. In 1572, it became the administrative and economic center of the independent Bielsko state state (Latin status minor), ruled by representatives of the noble families of Promnitz (1572-1582), Schaffgotsch (1582-1592), Sunnegh (1592-1724), Solms (1728- 1742) and Haugwitz (1742–1752). From the end of the 16th century, it was more and more transformed into a noble residence, without losing its defensive values: despite being burnt by the Swedes at the end of the Thirty Years' War (1646), it was still considered one of the most important in Silesia in 1689.
muzeum.bielsko.pl/pl/historia-muzeum-zamek
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzeum_Historyczne_w_Bielsku-Bia%C5%82ej_%E2%80%93_Zamek_ksi%C4%85%C5%BC%C4%85t_Su%C5%82kowskich
There is a grain of truth in every legend. Archaeological research confirms that there was probably a wooden castle in the place of today's castle in the 13th century. It acted as a watchtower guarding the crossing over the Biała River and the intersections of important trade routes: the salt route from Kraków to Cieszyn, to Moravia and the Czech Republic, and the route from Upper Silesia through Żywiec to Hungary. In the second half of the fourteenth century, the watchtower, destroyed by fire, was replaced by a brick castle, erected by the Duke of Cieszyn, Przemysław I Noszak († 1410). The building, from the beginning included in the Bielsko fortification system, being the strongest element of its fortifications, represented the type of the so-called city castle. At the same time, it played an important role as a Silesian border fortress: the nearby Biała River divided the district principalities of Cieszyn and Oświęcim from 1316, it became the Czech-Polish state border in the mid-15th century, and in the years 1526–1772 it separated the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The castle in Bielsko, gradually expanded and transformed over time, served as one of the seats of the Cieszyn Piasts for over two centuries. In 1572, it became the administrative and economic center of the independent Bielsko state state (Latin status minor), ruled by representatives of the noble families of Promnitz (1572-1582), Schaffgotsch (1582-1592), Sunnegh (1592-1724), Solms (1728- 1742) and Haugwitz (1742–1752). From the end of the 16th century, it was more and more transformed into a noble residence, without losing its defensive values: despite being burnt by the Swedes at the end of the Thirty Years' War (1646), it was still considered one of the most important in Silesia in 1689.
muzeum.bielsko.pl/pl/historia-muzeum-zamek
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzeum_Historyczne_w_Bielsku-Bia%C5%82ej_%E2%80%93_Zamek_ksi%C4%85%C5%BC%C4%85t_Su%C5%82kowskich
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3.32 km
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708 m
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2.78 km
458 m
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