16 Facts About Tychy

Tychy is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, approximately 20 kilometres south of Katowice.

Since 1999 Tychy has been located within the Silesian Voivodeship, a province consisting of 71 regional towns and cities.

Tychy is one of the founding cities of the Metropolitan Association of Upper Silesia, a pan-Silesian economic and political union formed with the eventual aim of bringing the most populous Silesian areas under a single administrative body.

Tychy is well known for its brewing industry and its international developed brand Tyskie, which dates back to the 17th century.

Since 1950 Tychy has grown rapidly, mainly as a result of post-war socialist planning policies enacted to disperse the population of industrial Upper Silesia.

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Moniker Tychy is derived from the Polish word cichy, meaning "quiet" or "still".

From 1526 onwards the area on which Tychy is built was part of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy.

Shortly after its cession to Poland, Tychy began to develop into a small urban settlement, acquiring a hospital, a fire station, a post office, a school, a swimming pool, a bowling hall and a number of shops and restaurants.

Tychy received minimal damage during the invasion because most of the nearby fighting took place in the Mikolow-Wyry area.

Tychy is the largest of the so-called "new towns" in Poland and was built from 1950 to 1985, to allow for urban expansion in the southeast of the Upper Silesian industrial region.

Also located in Tychy is a powertrain factory producing automobile engines for Opel cars.

In Tychy operates one of three remaining trolleybus systems in Poland.

Tychy is home to two major sporting teams, both named GKS Tychy.

Tychy hosted several matches of the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Tychy has been the birthplace and home of notable people, both past and present.

Tychy's distinguished career has led him to the post of acting chief in Poland's Bureau of National Security.