Olkusz poviat - poviat in Poland, in in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, created in 1999 as part of an administrative reform. His seat is Olkusz.
The coat of arms of the Olkusz poviat
An administrative division
The poviat consists of:
urban communes: Bukowno urban-rural communes: Olkusz, Wolbrom rural communes: Bolesław, Klucze, Trzyciąż towns: Bukowno, Olkusz, Wolbrom
Neighboring counties
Miechów County Krakow County Chrzanów County Będzin County (Silesia) Zawiercie County (Silesia)
Worth seeing
in Olkusz
Monuments Collegiate Basilica of St. Andrew
preserved
St. Andrzeja - a hall church with wall paintings and Renaissance organs by Hans Hummel from 1612–1623 (one of the oldest organs in Europe, preserved to a similar degree to the original one). Olkusz polyptych from 1485. Museum of the Olkusz Region Fire Service. PTTK Museum - Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society. The Water Museum, located in the building of the Water Treatment Station at Wspólna Street. The African Museum in Olkusz presenting the collection of Dr. Bogdan Szczygła - the only one of its kind in Poland. Museum of Władysław Wołkowski's Creativity at the Machnicki Manor House. The tower with a restored fragment of the defensive wall (now a cafe for young people). neoclassical starosty in the Market Square, a tenement house called Batorówka - the oldest building in the Market Square in Olkusz, the Myszkowski's tenement house on the square no. 29 - from the 16th century, with a Renaissance portal with an angel's head. 4-storey cellars. tenement house on the Market Square No. 24 - cellars of the Tęczyński Palace tenement house on the Market Square No. 20 - the tenement house called Batorówka or the Royal tenement house on the Market Square No. 16 - a gothic portal made of sandstone from the Augustinian church (Gothic fragments in the facade). tenement house on the Market Square No. 15 - in the facade Gothic fragments from the fifteenth century tenement house on the Market Square No. 11 - rebuilt former Wielopolski palace "Old Starosty" from 1828 - at the site of the Stefan Batory mint. There is a network of corridors connecting the surrounding tenement houses near the Market Square. the old cemetery with the grave of Col. Francesco Nullo Kościuszko Mound from 1861 at ul. Sławkowska Jewish cemeteries in Olkusz - the old Jewish cemetery at ul. Kolorowa, probably after 1584, and a new Jewish cemetery at ul. Jan Kanty from the first half Twentieth century
In the nearby Rabsztyn, on a hill, there are the ruins of the Boner Castle located on the Trail of the Eagles' Nests.
monument to "victims of communism" former militia monument (currently undeveloped)