The best city hikes and walks around Wałbrzych

There is a good snack bar here, which is also very popular with locals

Beware of mud

The tower is not suitable for four-legged friends due to its construction. It is best to take it in your arms or provide care downstairs.

The shape of the structure refers to the city's industrial traditions and is intended to resemble a mine cooling tower.

You can walk peacefully, there is traffic on both sides

The "shelter" in the city is quite a curiosity, thanks to which you can feel for a moment like you are on a larger expedition to the mountains. At the same time, on the western side there is a quite steep climb - more suitable for bicycles with good gears or electric bikes.

Emil Wunderlich's first plant in Stary Zdrój, producing decals, was launched on January 27, 1896 and operated in a building under the name "Mansfelder Haus". Very quickly, the needs of the ceramic industry turned out to be so great that it became necessary to expand the factory. Therefore, the merchant Alfred Mannich from Stary Zdrój, who in 1897 became a co-owner of the plant, led to the purchase of land for the construction of a new factory. Already in 1898, the plant was moved to new factory halls, where it has been operating to this day. On November 1, 1905, the trading enterprise was changed into a partnership headed by Emil Wunderlich and Alfred Munnich and its new name was E. Wunderlich & Comp. A.G. In May 1906, a competing company in Świebodzice, Gruschwitz & Lechner, was purchased, and in 1920, the company Zierdruck-Anstalt Lindenruh GmbH near Głogów. In 1930, all production from Świebodzice was moved to Stary Zdrój, and the Świebodzice plant was closed. After World War II, the plant continued the production of decals. The press announcement from 1957 shows that at that time the plant operated under the name "Wałbrzyskie Zakłady Kalkomanii Cerfarba", and according to the announcement from 1969 it was already Wałbrzyskie Zakłady Graficzne Kalkomania". Porcelany Książ. cheap tracing paper imported from China, flooding the Polish market, did the rest.In 2013, the plant was put into arrangement bankruptcy. In the tender announced by the trustee in August 2014, one company, Witek's from Modlniczka near Krakow, entered the tender, which bought the Wałbrzych decal for the price of PLN 2,150.0 thousand. zloty. Currently, the plant operates under the name of Kalkomania - Witeks Sp. z o. o.

The building was designed by the architect of the Wałbrzych town hall, Hermann Friedrich Wäsemann. The palace was erected in the years 1860-1863 for Carl Robert Tielsch, the owner of a nearby porcelain factory (Manufakturist C. Tielsch & Co. Altwasser), later Fabryka Porcelany Wałbrch S.A. After World War II, for many years the villa served as the seat of the management of the PKP Railway Lines Department in Wałbrzych. From the late 1990s to 2008, it stood empty and dilapidated. The new owner, a private entrepreneur in Wałbrzych, started its renovation. Today, the former building of the Tielsch family houses various offices and service outlets.