page_title: Siemianowice Śląskie
section_title: Notable architectural structures
hierarchical_section_title: Siemianowice Śląskie / Notable architectural structures
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Laurahütte in Oberschlesien um 1840
context_page_description: Siemianowice Śląskie also known as Siemianowice is a city in Upper Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice, in its central district in the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union - a metropolis with a population of 2 million people and is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Brynica river.
  It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999, previously in Katowice Voivodeship, and before then in the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship. Siemianowice is one of the cities of the 2.7 million conurbation, the Katowice urban area, at the heart of the greater Silesian metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people. The population of the city is 66,963.
  Siemianowice's present form results from the merging of the communes Siemianowice and Huta Laury in 1924. The new city was named Siemianowice Śląskie and gained town privileges in 1932.
context_section_description: Bytków TV Tower
  Palace of the Donnersmarcks
  Zameczek Palace (Rheinbaben Palace)
  Archangel Michael's Church
  The Townhall
  The Brewery
caption: Laurahütte, 1840
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