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Por±bka - originally a village established in a clearing of the Pakosznicka Primeval Forest, located on the right bank of the Bobrek stream. Its origins are unknown. The existence of the village was recorded in a document from 1326 relating to the payment of the peninsula by its inhabitants. This information was confirmed in the 15th century by Jan Długosz in Liber Beneficiorum. From 1390 to 1789, it was owned by the bishops of Kraków and was part of the property of the Sławków estate. In later years, the village changed owners many times.
Around 1920, it was purchased by the Warsaw Society of Coal Mines and Metallurgical Works. Settlements separated in the village - hamlets, the so-called Morze Czarne, Bór Porębski, "Za Wod±" (Zawodzie), and Maciek. In the second half of the nineteenth century, coal mining developed here, which changed the character of the village, transforming it into an industrial settlement. Workers' colonies were formed: Kazimierz, Juliusz, Szmejka. In 1860, the first opencast mine (owned by Krieger) was established. In its place, in 1874, the Warsaw Society of Coal Mines and Metallurgical Works opened the "Wiktor" mine, and then the "Kazimierz" mine, which in 1938 merged with the nearby "Juliusz" mine, which had been in operation since 1914. Until 1950, Por±bka belonged to the Olkusko-Siewierska commune, and then it was part of the Kazimierz commune in the Będzin poviat. In 1954 it became a group, in 1956 a housing estate, and in 1967 it received the status of an independent city, which it lost in 1973 when it was incorporated into Kazimierz Górniczy. After the administrative reform was carried out, it was absorbed into the municipal organism of Sosnowiec in 1975.
Source:
1. Jan Przemsza-Zieliński "Known and ... unknown Sosnowiec" (1992), Sowa-Press, Ekspres Zagłębiowski
2. Marian Kantor-Mirski "From the past of Zagłębie D±browskie and its surroundings" (1931-32)
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