Lipiny (Świętochłowice)

Lipiny is the youngest district of Świętochłowice, with history dating back to the early 19th century, when, together with whole Silesia, it belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia.

At that time, a folwark, mentioned in 1802, existed there, as part of the Chropaczow estate of Georg Christian Carl Henschel.

The folwark, whose area was 75 hectares, was located at the edge of a forest, where Lipiny's main thoroughfare, Chorzowska Street (former Kronprinzstrasse) runs now.

In the 19th century Lipiny, or Lipine, as part of the German Empire quickly developed and emerged as a major industrial center, with Zinc Smelter Silesia, opened in 1847 as Konstancja Steelworks.

In the 1921 Upper Silesian Plebiscite, 56.4% of residents of Lipiny voted for Poland, and as a result, the settlement was annexed into the Second Polish Republic.