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Środula and Środulka - in the area of the district one can distinguish: Środula Górna, Środula Dolna, Środulka, Kolonia Zuzanna. The exact time of the creation of Środula is unknown. It is known that in 1645 there was an inn settlement with this name on the road from Będzin to Mysłowice. Historically, it belonged to the Zagórze estate. Until 1880, there was a farm here, built in an unspecified time. In the second half of the 19th century, the settlement was owned by Gwarectwo von Kramsty, which leased it to W. Meyherhold. It gained importance when Fitzner-Gamper's industrial plants, Schoen's spinning mill and chemical factories in Środulka were built in the vicinity. Originally, most of the buildings in Środula were houses built mainly of limestone (the raw material was obtained in many nearby open-pit mines) with the addition of red brick. In 1914, Środula was incorporated into Sosnowiec.
Środula was intensively developing after the First World War. An interesting fact is that all latitudinal streets of Środula received the names of writers, and the longitudinal streets of painters and sculptors (today this system is strongly disturbed).
During the Second World War, Poles were displaced, and in their place, the people of the Mosaic faith were sent from the entire Zagłębie region to form a ghetto. It existed until 1943, when during the liquidation of the ghetto, most of its inhabitants were sent to the concentration camp in Oświęcim or died.
From the 70s of the last century, the gradual demolition of old houses in Środula and the construction of the prefabricated block housing estate that still exists today. At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, the old buildings were further demolished as a result of the construction of the "Plejada" shopping center. A large part of the buildings, commonly known as "barracks", which, according to many residents, was one of the most dangerous places in Sosnowiec, were razed to the ground.
Source:
1. Jan Przemsza-Zieliński "Known and ... unknown Sosnowiec" (1992), Sowa-Press, Ekspres Zagłębiowski
2. Marian Kantor-Mirski "From the past of Zagłębie Dąbrowskie and its surroundings" (1931-32)
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