I hope that the published photographs will help a bit. It is enough to close your eyes and you will be able to move to those old times. It does not matter that we will not find the former vibrant places… Just being in such a historically significant place and having the opportunity to have a picnic among the greenery is of great value. Suddenly, you move from the busy streets of the city into an oasis of peace and greenery. I urge you to visit this important historical place. the date of the entry of Poland to the European Union, when the area nearby Sosnowiec was cleaned up, a commemorative obelisk was placed and a stone with an appropriate inscription from the side of Myslowice. After the end of World War II, the place slid into oblivion. Obviously, the thriving smuggling business was making a profit out of the price differences between countries. The tower was demolished on the order of the Silesian governor Michael Grażyński in 1937. There was a panoramic view from the Bismarck tower, which was built in 1907. Two excursion steamers were ferrying the passengers across the river. In the mornings and afternoons, German engineers and technicians, who supervised the work of the industrial plants situated in the Russian zone (Zagłębie), were crossing the bridge. The housewives were passing the bridge over the Black Przemsza to get to Niwki - Modrzejów to buy things cheaper. The place was bustling with life especially in Mysłowice on the German side. According to the ancient chronicles, approximately 6,000 up to 8,000 visitors were coming here every day. The place where these two rivers merge into one forming the river Przemsza is the “Three Emperors’ Corner'.Īt the turn of the century that was the place which was well known in almost the whole Europe. Two rivers, White and Black Przemsza, were the borders. In that time, the region of Silesia had not belonged to Poland for a few centuries, so there is no question that it was not a German annexation. In fact, it was the tri-border area of the Russian and Austrian annexation and Germany. It is very common to say that this point is the place where the borders of the three annexations met. Speaking of the mistakes, one more thing should be explained here as it is very frequent to be mistaken. The name for the tripoint of the three powerful countries, which is “Three Emperors' Corner' (in German: Drei Kaiser Ecke) and literary means the angle of the three emperors, was wrongly translated into Triangle of the Three Emperors (Trójkąt Trzech Cesarzy in Polish) and has survived in this form up to this day. But, unfortunately, most of us does not know what it is and where it is.įor a better understanding of what is going on and where did this name derive from, one needs to go back to the year 1873, when the Austro-Hungarian emperor Franz Joseph I, German emperor Wilhelm II and Russian tsar Alexander II, have entered into the so-called “The League of the Three Emperors'. Apparently most of us has once heard the above-mentioned name.
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