Nowy Bytom (German: Friedenshütte) is a district serving as administrative centre of Ruda Śląska, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.

Until the early 19th century the area was covered by Bytom's Black Forest (German: Beuthener Schwarzwald, Polish: Czarny Las), which was first mentioned in 1369.

In the course of the 19th-century industrial development steel mills and coal mines had been established on its territory, among them Friedenshütte (Polish: Frydenshuta), after which a wider area took name.

After World War I and the Upper Silesia plebiscite became a part of Silesian Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic and gained status of an independent municipality (gmina) named Nowy Bytom (lit.

Nowy Bytom was then annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II.