Rydułtowy r is a town in southern Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. It is in the Wodzisław County of the Silesian Voivodeship

Silesian Voivodeship

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. Rydułtowy is in the south-western part of the Silesian Highland, on the Rybnik Plateau, in the Oświęcim-Racibórz Valley.

A mining town, Rydułtowy has been closely bound with the 200-year-old "Rydułtowy-Anna" coal mine.

Rydułtowy was first mentioned in documents from 1228. Rudolphi Willa is the name of the village in the Racibórz

Racibórz

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 Principality, as shown in the books of the Wrocław Archbishop, dated from the 13th century.

Landmarks

• Housing in the Charles's building settlement
• Municipal Hospital buildings "Rydułtowy" ZOZ (health care service)
• Penitential cross
• Railway station
• Rail tunnel
• Scales building KWK "Rydułtowy" (coal mine)
• St. Hyacinth's Church
• St. George's Church

Famous people

Marta Magnowska - princess lived in Rydultowy (1328-1356)

Kasia Szlachta - princess Marta's sister, princess of Charlotta Mountain (1328-1356)

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