Żywiec poviat - Powiat żywiecki

Żywiec poviat

Żywiec poviat - land poviat in Silesian Voivodeship. Its seat is in the city Zywiec.

The poviat consists of:

Position

The Żywiec County is located in the southern part of the Silesian Province and covers 15 municipalities (one municipal municipality - Żywiec and fourteen rural municipalities).

To the west it borders with Cieszyn poviat, from the north with Bielsko and Wadowicki, from the east with in the Suski poviatand from the south with Slovakia.

The area of ​​the Żywiec poviat is 1,039.96 km², which is 8.4% of the total area of ​​the voivodship, which makes it the second largest. Forest areas cover 548 km² of the poviat's area.

Worth seeing

Porąbka-Żar Power Plant It is located inside and on the surface of the Żar mountain, about 850 m above sea level, and its relative height is about 400 m. It is located in the Żywiec Beskids, about 10 km from the center of Żywiec, on the Międzybrodzki Reservoir on the Soła River.

The power plant includes a huge reservoir at the top of the mountain. It is 650 m long and 250 m wide at its widest point. The embankments are over 30 m high. It has the shape of a deltoid. It holds 2,310,000 m³ of water, the tank acts as an energy accumulator. The second reservoir located 432 meters below is the Żywiec Reservoir.

When the power plant has surplus capacity during the day, they are used to pump water to the upper reservoir. During periods of peak power demand, the water is drained from the upper reservoir and its energy is used to drive the turbines. All turbines generate 500 MW of power. The start-up time of the power plant is only 3 minutes. They function as both turbines and pumps. Pumping water into the upper reservoir at a rate of 145 m³ / sec. each of them needs 135 MW. It takes 5 hours to pump the tank fully. Then the water is discharged into the Międzybrodzkie Reservoir, driving the turbines. The operating time of the power plant with the use of water from the upper reservoir is 4 hours.

The current with a voltage of over 14 kV is transported to the switching station at the foot of the mountain. Its voltage is then increased to 120,000 V (120 kV) and passed on.

The power plant is open to visitors every Sunday on holiday. Tourists are shown around the power plant by one of its employees.

An asphalt road leads to the upper reservoir. Currently, it is closed. On a certain section of this road there is a "gravitational anomaly", which manifests itself in the rolling of objects as if uphill. Apparently, this phenomenon is an illusion. In fact, the object is rolling downhill and the observer is misreading the slope of the terrain.

The easiest way to get to the upper reservoir is to take a funicular railway (similar to Gubałówka). The cable car runs all year round. There is a restaurant upstairs.

  • Main attractions of the Żywiec poviat

  • Panorama of the Żywiec Śródmieście district

  • Fort "Wyrwidąb" in Węgierska Górka

  • Historic Tavern in Jeleśnia

  • Church in Żabnica

  • Hala Miziowa in Korbielów

  • Waterfall in Sopotnia Wielka

  • View of Milówka

Transport

Road transport

Express roads

  • S1 expressway - in the future it will connect Pyrzowice and further Bielsko-Biała with Zwardoń and the Slovak D3 motorway, currently the Bielsko-Biała - Przybędza and Milówka - Zwardoń sections are in operation. It is planned to go around Węgierska Górka (Przybędza - Milówka, 8 km).

National roads

  • National road no. 1 - the route connecting Bielsko-Biała and Zwardoń, on the sections Bielsko-Biała - Przybędza and Milówka - Zwardoń has the status of an express road.

Provincial roads

  • Provincial road No. 781 - runs from Chrzanów (Lesser Poland Province) to Łękawica, where it joins the provincial road No. 946. The road runs through Kocierz Rychwałdzki and Kocierz Moszczanicki.
  • Provincial road No. 943 - connects Laliki with the border with the Czech Republic in Jasnowice (Cieszyn poviat).
  • Voivodeship road no. 945 - the route connecting Żywiec with Korbielów and the border with Slovakia. On the road there are towns such as Żywiec, Świnna, Pewel Mała, Jeleśnia, Krzyżowa and Korbielów.
  • Provincial road No. 946 - connects Żywiec with Sucha Beskidzka and the national road No. 28 to Zakopane. The towns in the poviat through which the route runs are Żywiec, Łękawica, Okrajnik, Gilowice and Las.
  • Voivodeship road no. 948 - the route connecting Żywiec and Oświęcim. It runs through towns of the Żywiec poviat such as Żywiec, Tresna, Czernichów, Międzybrodzie Żywieckie and Międzybrodzie Bialskie.

Bus transportation

Eighteen lines of MZK Żywiec connect the city center with all its districts and the surrounding towns located in the following communes: Buczkowice (Bielsko poviat), Łodygowice, Czernichów, Gilowice, Świnna, Radziechowy-Wieprz and Lipowa.

After the fall of PKS Żywiec, local transport is provided by private carriers. PKS Bielsko-Biała buses run in the communes of Czernichów and Łodygowice. The commune of Lipowa is serviced by JM-BUS and Travel Bus vehicles. Transport in the municipalities of Rajcza, Ujsoła and Węgierska Górka (except Żabnica is run by Thermocar, the municipality of Milówka is operated by Dumar. The municipalities of Łękawica, Gilowice and Ślemień are reached by vehicles of carriers such as Janowiec, Euro-travel, Chrustek Travel and RS Transport. also in the municipalities of Jeleśnia and Koszarawa.

The main transfer point of local transport is the bus station in Żywiec, located at ul. Dworcowa in the Zabłocie district. Other important stops include Tesco (Al. Jana Pawła II), Plac Grunwaldzki and Ogródek Jordanowski (al. Piłsudskiego).

Railway transport

The main railway station in Żywiec. The Żywiec poviat is located on the route of the former Galician Transversal Railway, at the intersection of two railway lines:

  • Railway line 97 - connects the Żywiec and Sucha Beskidzka stations.
  • Railway line 139 - leads from Katowice through Bielsko-Biała to Zwardoń.

The most important stations in the poviat are: Żywiec, Węgierska Górka, Zwardoń, Łodygowice, Rajcza and Milówka.

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