Karchowice | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Silesian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Tarnowskie Góry |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Zbrosławice |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 50.3942°N 18.6828°W |
Population Total: | 308 |
Website: | http://www.karchowice.prv.pl |
Karchowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zbrosławice, within Tarnowskie Góry County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 6km (04miles) south-west of Zbrosławice, 150NaN0 south-west of Tarnowskie Góry, and 280NaN0 north-west of the regional capital Katowice.
In Karchowice is located The Historic Waterworks Station ‘ZAWADA’ which is included in the Industrial Monuments Route of Silesia since the beginning of its existence. The Historic Waterworks Station ‘ZAWADA’ in Karchowice has been a landmark in the borough of Zbrosławice since 1895, when the first deep well was officially opened and started supplying drinking water to the residential parts of the western counties in the Upper Silesian Industrial Region including such cities as Zabrze, Bytom, Ruda Śląska, Gliwice and others.