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A short trip to Wisła

When long time ago young Adam Małysz was taking his first steps on skis, his hometown of Wisła was home to an ancient ski jump with a wobbly judges’ booth. At the time, an asphalt road ran at its very foot, which had to be closed for competitions. Today, when the great successes of the Polish ski jumper triggered a nationwide “Małyszomania,” and the subsequent achievements of Kamil Stoch permanently introduced ski jumping to the ranks of the most popular Polish sports, the Ski Jump Wisła – Malinka is a fully modern facility where the young successors of the champion practice. What interesting things can be seen in the town where one of the most successful ski jumpers in history grew up?

The small town of Wisła takes its name from Poland’s largest river (“Wisła” is simply Vistula in English), which has its sources in the local forest valleys. The intimate town is the center of a community of Polish Protestants, which includes Adam Małysz himself. Although the local part of the Silesian region remained for centuries under the rule of the Catholic Habsburgs and Austria, rather than Germany, local Lutherans have maintained their faith and customs to this day – so much so that the saying “hard as Lutheran faith from the area of Cieszyn” has been coined. In the aforementioned Cieszyn, the main center of the area, which we write about in more detail here, there is a Museum of Protestantism in the beautiful Church of Jesus, where you can learn more about the spirit of the area.

The Adam Małysz Ski Jump in Wisła today is a modern facility that hosts World Cup competitions every year. Nowadays, the famous road runs… in a tunnel under the counter slope. The surrounding area encourages hiking – you can go from here, for example, to Barania Góra, from under which the Wisła springs flow, or to the closer mountain Soszów Wielki, under which there is a cosy mountain shelter.

While in Wisła, you can also see the castle that was the summer residence of the President of Poland. The building, designed by Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz, whose most famous projects were built in Kraków, was built in the interwar period, when the Polish part of Silesia was the richest, economically strategic part of the country. The castle can be visited in the absence of the president… that is, more often than not!

 

 

 

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Ein kurzer Ausflug nach Wisła

Wisła

A short trip to Wisła