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Lake Rybnik – Lake Rybnickie loop from Żory

Lake Rybnik – Lake Rybnickie loop from Żory

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Lake Rybnik – Lake Rybnickie loop from Żory

03:19

56.6km

310m

Gravel riding

Moderate gravel ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 28, 2026

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After 56.4 km for 256 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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3.00 km

Lake Gichta

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Beautiful place, definitely worth stopping here for a moment.

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3.32 km

Garbocz

Lake

13.4 km

Czarny Las

Forest

29.8 km

Lake Rybnickie

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Lake Rybnickie always reminds me of nature and the pollution that is right next to it....

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32.6 km

Lake Rybnickie (Zbiornik Rybnicki, Zalew Rybnicki) – a reservoir created by damming the Ruda River waters with a dam in Rybnik Stodoły.

The reservoir with an area of 4.5 km² and a volume of 22 million m³ of water was created in the districts of Rybnik – Rybnicka Kuźnia, Orzepowice, Chwałęcice and Stodły, for the needs of the Rybnik Power Plant.
At the minimum level of damming (ordinate 220.00 m above sea level), the reservoir has a volume of 17.588 million m³, at the normal level (221.00 m above sea level) – 22.099 million m³, and at the flood (maximum) level of 221.30 m above sea level – 23.482 million m³. The usable volume of the reservoir is 4.511 million m³, and the permanent flood reserve is 1.383 million m³. The usable volume of the reservoir is the elevation of 220.00–221.00 m above sea level.
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezioro_Rybnickie
roweremposlasku.pl/zalew-rybnicki

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34.1 km

Zbiornik Orzepowicki

Lake

36.8 km

Ruda Las

Forest

39.0 km

Paruszowiec Pond

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The pond is located near the brine graduation tower, a very nice place with a small pier and an island covered with trees in the middle of the pond.

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52.5 km

Garbocz Ponds

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The areas between Żory and Orzesze are among the most picturesque in Upper Silesia. The luminous forests hide the blue eyes of the ponds, arranged in ancient centuries by the human hand on the Ruda River. Hence, this area is often called Palowice Lakeland - from the town of Palowice, located in its very center. The lake district is part of the Cistercian Landscape Compositions of Rudy Wielkie Landscape Park.
slaskie.travel/poi/2976/gichta-huty-waleska-w-palowicach

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53.7 km

Gichta Pond

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A charming pond in the Palowice Lakeland.

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53.8 km

Gichta Tower of the Former Waleska Ironworks in Palowice

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A few kilometers north of the center of Żory, in the forest, by the Gichta pond, there is a brick hoist tower operating here in the first half of the 19th century, the "Waleska" smelter. The tower, called the gichta, was used to pull the charge - i.e. bog iron ore, charcoal and fluxes - to a considerable height with a manual crane, in order to cover a nearby cylindrical blast furnace. The building was built in the 1830s on a plan similar to a square. It is 15 m high, the interior dimensions are 610 by 775 cm. The walls are almost a meter thick.
slaskie.travel/poi/2976/gichta-huty-waleska-w-palowicach

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56.6 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

35.7 km

9.90 km

4.55 km

4.26 km

1.88 km

188 m

Surfaces

27.7 km

11.4 km

9.81 km

4.61 km

2.84 km

143 m

Elevation

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Highest point (280 m)

Lowest point (210 m)

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Lake Rybnik – Lake Rybnickie loop from Żory

Lake Gichta

Lake Rybnickie

Lake Rybnik

Lake Rybnickie

Paruszowiec Pond

Garbocz Ponds

Gichta Pond

Gichta Tower of the Former Waleska Ironworks in Palowice

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