Zielona Góra 2023-01-01

Zielona Góra Główna Railway Station.

Geographic coordinates: 51.947N 15.511E.

Zielona Góra Station is described in the previous Chapter “PKP Zielona Góra. 2022.” This Chapter is a supplement to information about the interesting city of Zielona Góra and the large railway junction.

Zielona Góra Główna Station.

The station is located at Dworcowa Street 32c. You can get here by public bus.

The currently existing (2023) station building was built in the early 1960s. The station was built in a modernist style with a trapezoidal roof. The building had extensive glazing. Unfortunately, modern technology did not provide good thermal insulation and the building turned out to be expensive to heat. Therefore, it was decided to carry out a general renovation. The renovation was carried out in three stages. The first stage was completed in 2004 – 2006. The second stage was completed in 2008 – 2009, and the last one was completed in 2011 – 2012. The grand opening took place on August 16, 2012. The renovation cost PLN 7 million. The renovation included new elevations with insulation, new windows and doors. The entrance doors are automatic. New cash registers, an information point, retail areas (gastronomic point, grocery store), a medical point (Pharmacy), a municipal guard point, new toilets, railway information, monitoring, and drinks machines.

Photo description: Historic railway building. The building is worth attention because the railway station, which stood 100 m further to the east, looked similar. The old, brick station in Zielona Góra operated until the early 1960s. At that time, it was demolished, and a new, larger one was built in its place. An almost identical former German station to the one in Zielona Góra stands at the Rudna Gwizdanów railway station near Głogów. There are several similar, brick, former German stations in Lower Silesia, for example in Ścinawa.

Zielona Góra.

Co-cathedral of Saint Jadwiga of Silesia. ul. Mickiewicza 14, 65 – 063 Zielona Góra.

The temple was founded in the second half of the 13th century by Duke Konrad I of Głogów and was dedicated to Saint Jadwiga of Silesia, who was the grandmother of the founder. The church was built from 1272 and was completed in 1294 by Henryk Głogowczyk, Konrad’s son. The founder was buried within the temple. This church is the oldest preserved monument of Zielona Góra. What is a Co-Cathedral? A Co-Cathedral is the second church of an archdiocese or diocese and this church is the second seat of the ordinary. Zielona Góra is the Zielona Góra-Gorzów diocese and the cathedral is in Gorzów Wielkopolski. Currently, we have 16 Catholic Co-Cathedrals in Poland. In 1992, with the papal bull Totus Tuus Poloniae Populus, Pope Saint John Paul II, as part of the reorganization of the administration of the Church in Poland, established the Zielona Góra-Gorzów diocese, moving its capital from Gorzów Wielkopolski to Zielona Góra, and raised the previous parish church of Saint Jadwiga of Silesia to the dignity of the co-cathedral of the Zielona Góra-Gorzów diocese on June 7, 1992.

The villa of the owner of the Beuchelt u. Co. factory.

In the Chapter – “The Beuchelt and Zastal Factory. Zielona Góra. 1876-1993”, we mentioned the villa of the engineer Georg Beuchelt, which still exists. Current address Zielona Góra ulica Towarowa 20. Currently (2022) the building houses the Medical Center.

Photo description: Behind the platforms, among the trees, a pink building is visible, this is the former villa of the founder of the Beuchelt u. Co. factory.

Written by Karol Placha Hetman