Monumental Retaining Wall And Remains Of An Unfinished Steel Mill in Bobrza
Technical Monuments
The village was property of the Bishops of Kraków. It was here that the first blast furnace in Poland was built between 1610 and 1613. There are also remains of an unfinished steel mill (the largest one in Poland), with five blast furnaces charged at the top, dating from the early nineteenth century.
Other surviving structures include: the monumental retaining wall, 400 metres long and about 15 metres tall, the ruins of factory buildings and workers‘ housing estate, and the renovated house of the station master ( the Bobrza Manor House). The Bobrza River, with a length of 48.9 kilometers, is the longest right tributary of the Black Nida River, and one of the „busiest“ industrial rivers in the Polish Commonwealth, with numerous water reservoirs.
