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Dębowa Góra - a village established in a forest at an unspecified time. At the end of the 18th century, it had 5 cottages and two inns. It was owned by the Dębowski family, who probably had a manor and a farm here (One of the family representatives, Jan of Dębowa Góra of the Dęboróg coat of arms, held the position of the starost of Będzin in the mid-18th century) and then Prince Ludwik Anhalt von Pless. In the 19th century it turned into an industrial settlement. First, coal mining began to be developed here. The first mine in Dębowa, "Hrabia Fryderyk", was in operation in the years 1850 - 1868. It belonged to the owners of Sielec - from 1856 to Count Jan Maria Renard. In 1863, other mines were established: "Ludmiła", also known as the "Count Renard" mine. It had two extraction shafts, 80m deep, "Moebius" and "Jan". It did not work long, because in 1881 it was flooded by an underground snowstorm and the waters of the Czarna Przemsza River. About 200 workers were killed then. The attempts to dehydrate it were unsuccessful. It was only in 1958 that the "Niwka-Modrzejów" mine included its workings, after drainage, into its own.
In the Renardów estates located in Dębowa Góra, there was also the "Andrzej" ("Graf Andreas") mine, operated in the years 1863-1892, and "Fryderyka Joanna". "Fryderyka Joanna" launched in 1880, from 1917 leased by Gwarectwa "Count Renard" to G. Forentz, and then to H. Priwer. For some time (1909-1910), the "Dębowa Góra" mine was mining on the land of Ludwik Mauve.
In addition to the above-mentioned mining plants, the "Count Renard" Guards factory also included a steam brickyard, launched in 1900, producing various types of bricks for its own company and for sale, quarries with lime kilns and a pipe and iron mill (later called "Cedler"), built in 1901 - 1906.
The metallurgical and metal industries developed in Dębowa Góra from the 1880s. In 1881, a German industrialist from Zabrze, Adolf Deichsel opened a rope and wire factory here, which produced, among others, mine hoisting ropes. Transformed into a joint-stock company, the company expanded the range of production. After World War II, it operated as the Sosnowiec Rope and Wire Factory (later "Falind" Sp. Z o.o.). Since November 2005, it has been leased by Polskie Liny Sp. z o.o.
In 1883 the "Puszkin" ironworks, owned by the German industrialist Gwidon H. von Donnersmarck, started operating; from 1920 the "Staszic" steelworks.
In Dębowa Góra there was the oldest hospital for employees of Count Renard's dominion, established in the 1860s (in 1970 it was moved to a new building in Sielec). Also here, until around 1900, there was a folk school for the children of workers.
It is worth mentioning that in Dębowa Góra the first public library in the later city was established by Maria Kondracka. Dębowa Góra was incorporated into Sosnowiec in 1915.
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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