--- title: "Szopienice-Burowiec – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Szopienice-Burowiec, Poland: Szopienice-Burowiec is a district of Katowice, Poland, located in the north-eastern part of the city. Nearby: Silesian…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/szopienice-burowiec" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/szopienice-burowiec.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Bataille_de_fleurs._2020-02-22_14-43-52.jpg/1920px-Bataille_de_fleurs._2020-02-22_14-43-52.jpg" --- Katowice District in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland # Szopienice-Burowiec Szopienice-Burowiec is a district of Katowice, Poland, located in the north-eastern part of the city. ![Szopienice-Burowiec](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Bataille_de_fleurs._2020-02-22_14-43-52.jpg/1920px-Bataille_de_fleurs._2020-02-22_14-43-52.jpg) Szopienice-Burowiec · Shesmax (CC BY-SA 4.0) The place Szopienice-Burowiec is a district of Katowice, Poland, located in the north-eastern part of the city. It has an area of 8.47 km2 and in 2007 had 17,139 inhabitants. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szopienice-Burowiec), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Szopienice-Burowiec 10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Silesian Interurbans Silesian Trams is one of the largest tram systems in the world and the largest and longest tram system in Poland, located entirely within the Silesian Voivodeship. Started as a part of the German Empire in 1894, the system currently has 677 stops across 29 lines and serves the region’s population inhabited by more than two million people. 1.5 km · tram system in the Upper Silesian Conurbation in Poland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_Interurbans) 2. Roman Catholic Diocese of Sosnowiec The Diocese of Sosnowiec is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Sosnowiec in the ecclesiastical province of Częstochowa in Poland. As of 2013 weekly Sunday mass attendance was 27.5%, up from 27.4% in the previous year. 3.5 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocese_of_Sosnowiec) 3. Silesian Museum in Katowice Silesian Museum in Katowice is a museum in the city of Katowice, Poland. 3.6 km · museum in Katowice, Poland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_Museum_(Katowice%29) 4. Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sosnowiec The Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary also called Sosnowiec Cathedral is a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church which is located in the city of Sosnowiec in the European country of Poland. It is eclectic church built in 1899, on the plan of a Latin cross basilica type. 3.4 km · church building in Sosnowiec, Poland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosnowiec_Cathedral) 5. Stadion Ludowy The Sosnowiec People's Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Sosnowiec, Poland. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the training ground of Zagłębie Sosnowiec. 1.7 km · football stadium in Sosnowiec, south Poland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadion_Ludowy) 6. Franz Schöen's Palace Franz Schön's Palace called also New Schön's Palace or Oskar Schön's Palace – one of the two residences of the Schöen family, located on the merger of the districts and, at the time of its creation, the settlement: Ostra-Gorka and Sielec, on the left bank of the Black Przemsza River. The palace is located in the center of Sosnowiec. 3.9 km · Palace in Sosnowiec city in Poland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Sch%C3%B6n%27s_Palace_(Sosnowiec%29) 7. St. Stephen's Church The Kościół św. Szczepana or Saint Stephen's Church is a church in Katowice, Silesian Voivodship, Poland. 3.2 km · church building in Katowice, Poland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Stephen%27s_Church,_Katowice) 8. Orthodox Church of the Holy Virgin, Hope, Luby and their mother Zofia (Sosnowiec) The Orthodox Church of Sts. Vera, Hope, Loy and the mother of their Zofia in Sosnowiec – the only one existing of the three Orthodox Orthodox churches in Sosnowiec. 3.4 km · Orthodox church in Poland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Church_of_the_Holy_Virgin,_Hope,_Luby_and_their_mother_Zofia_(Sosnowiec%29) 9. Valley of Three Ponds The Valley of Three Ponds is a large park and wooded area in the southern part of the city of Katowice, Poland. The name comes from the existence of three large ponds in the park area. 3.8 km · reservoir · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_Three_Ponds) 10. The Scientific Information Center and Academic Library The Scientific Information Center and Academic Library is a joint scientific library of two universities in Katowice - the University of Silesia in Katowice and the University of Economics in Katowice. It is located in the heart of the university campus, in the center of the Silesian agglomeration. 3.9 km · academic library in Silesia (Katowice, Poland) · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Information_Centre_and_Academic_Library) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Szopienice-Burowiec **Airports:** Katowice Wojciech Korfanty (KTW), 23 km · Kraków John Paul II (KRK), 54 km · Leoš Janáček Ostrava (OSR), 94 km\ **Stations:** Sosnowiec Główny, 3.2 km\ - Balice → Szopienice-Burowiec 54 km · quickest by road, 55 min · zł16–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/balice-to-szopienice-burowiec) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Balice&to=Szopienice-Burowiec) - Łódź → Szopienice-Burowiec 169 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · zł46–60 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/odz-to-szopienice-burowiec) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA&to=Szopienice-Burowiec) - Wrocław → Szopienice-Burowiec 172 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · zł43–60 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/wroc-aw-to-szopienice-burowiec) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Wroc%C5%82aw&to=Szopienice-Burowiec) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Szopienice-Burowiec) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Szopienice-Burowiec Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Szopienice-Burowiec. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 770 km 2. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 813 km 3. [Korčula](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/korcula) HR 9 ways of moving, 33 sources 826 km 4. [Mljet](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mljet) HR 9 ways of moving, 28 sources 846 km 5. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 963 km If you know how people move in Szopienice-Burowiec – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cszopienice-burowiec&title=Szopienice-Burowiec&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fszopienice-burowiec), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Szopienice-Burowiec - [Bogucice](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bogucice) district of the city of Katowice in southern Poland 3.2 km - [Dąbrówka Mała](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dabrowka-ma-a) district of the city of Katowice in southern Poland 900 m - [Janów-Nikiszowiec](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/janow-nikiszowiec) district of the city of Katowice in southern Poland 2.8 km - [Zawodzie](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zawodzie) district of the city of Katowice in southern Poland 3 km [The place page for Szopienice-Burowiec](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/szopienice-burowiec) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Poland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-PL) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/szopienice-burowiec, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. 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