It runs along Gliwicka street characteristic tortuous course of the city center to the border of Chorzów.

It is one of the oldest districts of Katowice, which dates back to the thirteenth century.

By the end of the eighteenth century the community was an agricultural character, when it began to develop coal mining, iron and zinc industry, which enabled rapid population growth.

After the collapse of the major industrial plants in the early twenty-first century Załęże became the center of a residential and service.

Development depends to a large extent are townhouses and familoks from the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as residential buildings and services created after World War II.