Film and TV locations in Silesian Voivodeship

Ogrodzieniec Castle

Silesian Voivodeship

Castle & estate

Ruined 14th-century castle on the highest hill of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, its broken towers rising among limestone outcrops on the Trail of the Eagles' Nests.

Seen in: The Witcher (2019)

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Silesian Library

Silesian Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A glazed 1998 public library on European Council Square in central Katowice, with reading rooms, a hall and storage floors that read as modern civic interiors.

Electricity, water, high natural light and on-site parking

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Szombierki Coal Mine

Silesian Voivodeship

Industrial & derelict

A disused coal mine in Bytom dating to 1870, with two shafts, winding towers, tracks and utility buildings behind a perimeter fence; the Krystyna shaft tower is a listed monument.

Parking available on site

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Bedzin Marketplace

Silesian Voivodeship

Bar, restaurant & shop

A twice-weekly outdoor market in Bedzin covering about 40,000 square metres of paved and hard-standing ground, with open stalls and covered commercial shelters.

Approximately 40,000 square metres of market ground, covered stalls, on-site parking

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Bytom railway station

Silesian Voivodeship

Transport & infrastructure

A 1920s station building in central Bytom with a clock tower, a large unstaffed concourse without shops or ticket booths, underground passages and a train shed, now faded from its original state.

Parking nearby, bus station in close proximity

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Chorzowska 50 office building

Silesian Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A fourteen-storey office tower in central Katowice with a retail arcade, conference centre and around 660 parking spaces across five levels, close to two regional airports.

660 parking spaces across five floors, on-site security and video surveillance, retail arcade

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CMC Poland Steelworks, Zawiercie

Silesian Voivodeship

Industrial & derelict

A working steelworks in Zawiercie founded in 1900 that rolls steel bars and profiles, with a gated entrance, caretaker's lodge, and a large yard usable as a parking or unit base.

Gated entrance with caretaker's lodge, large parking and staging area

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Complex of Schools, Pyskowice

Silesian Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A red-brick Gothic Romanesque school building from 1861 in Pyskowice, with a main hall, classrooms, a computer lab and grounds including a sports field and parking.

Electricity, water and parking on site

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Czarny Las Hotel Palace, Woźniki

Silesian Voivodeship

Hotel & interiors

A restored 19th-century manor house near Woźniki set in 3.66 hectares of grounds, run as a hotel and restaurant complex with period-styled interiors sleeping 56 guests.

Electricity, water and parking on site

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Dobra Karma Restaurant, Katowice

Silesian Voivodeship

Bar, restaurant & shop

A restaurant in a 20th-century tenement building in central Katowice, with a ground-floor bar and dining room, a first-floor lounge with a piano and a patio open spring to autumn.

Electricity, water and parking on site

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Former synagogue, Zarki (MGOK)

Silesian Voivodeship

Church & monastery

A 19th-century former synagogue in the small town of Zarki, now the municipal cultural centre (MGOK), with power, water and vehicle access offered for filming.

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Hotel Diament Ustron

Silesian Voivodeship

Hotel & interiors

A resort and spa hotel in the wooded Zawodzie district of Ustron, with a pyramid-shaped main building from 1979, 121 rooms, conference space and an indoor pool with a wave feature.

Capacity: 121 · 121 rooms, conference hall, spa and wellness area with pool, on-site restaurant, parking

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Huta Batory director's building

Silesian Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A 1915 modernist administration building at the Huta Batory steelworks in Chorzow, still in office use, with a roof turret, three bas-reliefs over the entrance and an interior courtyard.

Power and water, parking, meeting rooms, original period interiors

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Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice

Silesian Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A music conservatory in central Katowice combining a neo-Gothic former Silesian Sejm building with a modern wing holding a 480-seat concert hall, library and practice rooms.

Electricity on site, parking in front of the building

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Katowice-Muchowiec Airport

Silesian Voivodeship

Transport & infrastructure

A small general-aviation airfield and aeroclub on the southern edge of Katowice, with grass and paved runways, hangars and open apron space inside the city ring road.

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KWK Centrum Coal Mine

Silesian Voivodeship

Industrial & derelict

A Bytom coal mine, working from 1881 and in liquidation since 2015, with a mining shaft, an escape-apparatus store and a security building still standing among the halls being demolished.

Vehicle access, on-site production base, parking

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Laziska Power Plant

Silesian Voivodeship

Industrial & derelict

A coal-fired power station at Laziska Gorne built in 1917, still operated by Tauron, with heat-exchanger halls, an on-site energy museum and surrounding woodland and meadow.

Electricity on site, parking available, energy museum on the premises

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Miechowice Combined Heat and Power Plant, Bytom

Silesian Voivodeship

Industrial & derelict

An operating heat and power plant in Bytom-Miechowice built 1950-1954 on former power-station grounds, with four chimneys, boiler halls and turbine sets amid urban forest.

Large parking area on site

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Plac Rybny, Będzin

Silesian Voivodeship

Historic town & street

A small historic square in Będzin's old town named after its former fish market, framed by townhouses and used by the city for public events.

Open public square with parking nearby

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Podlesice 38

Silesian Voivodeship

Hotel & interiors

A small countryside guesthouse near Kroczyce in the Polish Jura, with a 50 square metre apartment, three ensuite bedrooms, a living room and a terrace.

Electricity, water and parking on site

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Polish Theatre, Bielsko-Biała

Silesian Voivodeship

Theatre, arena & venue

An 1890 eclectic theatre building in Bielsko-Biała designed by Viennese architect Emil von Förster, with a Big Stage, a Small Stage and a smaller studio stage.

Electricity, water and parking on site

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Regional Court in Katowice

Silesian Voivodeship

Hospital, prison & institution

A six-storey courthouse in Katowice completed in 2009, an elongated cuboid block with 51 courtrooms, a planted internal courtyard and over 600 office rooms.

51 courtrooms, internal courtyard, rear parking area

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Regional Specialist Hospital No. 5, Sosnowiec

Silesian Voivodeship

Hospital, prison & institution

A working trauma hospital in Sosnowiec opened in 1988 on the site of the former Coal Miners' Hospital, with a helicopter landing pad and an underground tunnel to its emergency department.

Helicopter landing pad, underground patient transfer tunnel, on-site car park

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Rödl & Partner Office Building, Gliwice

Silesian Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A three-storey modernist office building in Gliwice, 300 metres from the Old Town, with meeting and conference rooms, a lecture hall, a terrace and parking in front.

Electricity and parking on site

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Silesian Trade Centre, Hall 3, Chorzow

Silesian Voivodeship

Theatre, arena & venue

An empty 40 by 100 metre steel-framed exhibition hall at a trade centre next to Silesia Park in Chorzow, with a loading ramp and two vehicle entrance gates, ready to be dressed for a build.

Electricity on site, parking in front of the hall, loading ramp and two vehicle entrance gates

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Silesian Voivodeship Office, Katowice

Silesian Voivodeship

Office, school & public building

A 1925-1929 government headquarters in central Katowice with a 260-seat former regional parliament hall, a marble ceremonial hall, and six kilometres of corridors across 634 rooms.

634 rooms, 260-seat hall, marble hall, on-site parking

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The Villa, Łaziska Górne

Silesian Voivodeship

House & apartment

A two-storey brick villa built in 1908 for a coal mine director in Łaziska Górne, later a community centre and now offices, set in open grounds with mature trees.

Electricity, water and parking on site

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Tychy Municipal Sports and Leisure Centre, Indoor Pool

Silesian Voivodeship

Theatre, arena & venue

A modern municipal indoor pool complex in Tychy, with a 25 by 12.5 metre competition pool with a diving tower and a separate warm-up pool.

Electricity, water and parking on site

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Water Tower Restaurant, Pszczyna

Silesian Voivodeship

Bar, restaurant & shop

A 1926 municipal water tower in Pszczyna converted into a restaurant on its top floor, with a Steampunk-styled reception room spread across two levels of the tower.

Electricity, gas, water and parking on site

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Żywiec Brewery Museum

Silesian Voivodeship

Industrial & derelict

A working brewery museum in Żywiec, opened 2006 on the site of an 1856 Habsburg-era brewery, with a recreated 19th-century street, a tavern, a bar and manufacturing spaces.

Electricity and on-site parking

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