Kobiór - Kobiór

Kobióra coat of arms

Kobiór - a large village located in the south Poland, in Silesian Voivodeship, in the Pszczyna poviat.

The village is inhabited by about 4,800 people, who live in the area of ​​734 ha.

Nearby cities

Tourist attractions

  • The Promnice Hunting Palace in Kobiórze - a palace located among the forests of the Pszczyna Forest near the south-western part of the Paprocańskie Lake. Known mainly due to the Hochbergs and Promnitzes, who came here to fish for game. The castle was built in the nineteenth century in the English neo-Gothic style with visible German influences according to the design of Olivier Pavelt - the court architect of the Hochbergs.
  • "Stara Smolarnia" Regional Chamber - a regional museum established in 2003, located in a 19th-century, wooden, nicely decorated building - the so-called tar factory. In the facility you can find period furniture, instruments, crosses, devotional items, dishes, everyday items, books, magazines, wardrobe items and exhibitions presenting the local fauna.
  • Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - the Roman Catholic parish church in Kobiórze was built in 1911 thanks to the permission of the bishop of Wrocław. Soon after, a parish cemetery and a presbytery were established. Currently, the building is the only Catholic church within 4 kilometers from Kobiór.

  • The Promnice hunting lodge

  • St. Hubert next to the Hunting Palace

  • "Stara Smolarnia" Regional Chamber

  • Church of WNMP in Kobiórze

  • Paprocańskie Lake

  • Meadow in the Pszczyna Forest

  • Kobiór Railway Station

Shopping

Accommodation

Gastronomy

  • Karczma Tatrzańska (Beskidzka 5, 43-210 Kobiór)
  • Bufet Country Inn (Beskidzka 9, 43-210 Kobiór)
  • Pod Sikorką Restaurant and Accommodation (Centralna 1, 43-210 Kobiór)

Transport

In 1870 a station was built and a railroad connecting today Katowice With Bielsko, Vistula and borderline Zebrzydowice, as well as a dirt road, now transformed into national road no. 1 (DK1 Gdańsk - Łódź - Katowice - Cieszyn). In addition to DK 1, the provincial road connecting Kobiór with Mikołów.

Security

There is a relatively low level of crime in Kobiórze, but it is worth being vigilant on the highway and in its vicinity. If necessary, security in the commune is supervised by the TSO, the district police and the ambulance service (based in Pszczyna).