Editing Bytom

{{short description|City in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2014}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Bytom
| settlement_type = [[City with powiat rights|City county]]
| native_name = {{nativename|szl|Bytōm / Bytōń}}
| image_skyline = Bytom collage 123.jpg
| imagesize = 250px
| image_caption = '''From top, left to right''': [[Silesian Opera]]; Historic tram (in background Main Post Office); Dworcowa Street; [[Bytom market square|Market square]]; [[Szombierki Heat Power Station]]; View of Władysław Sikorski Square; Church of St. Margaret
| image_flag = POL Bytom flag.svg
| image_shield = Bytom herb.svg
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = bottom
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Silesian Voivodeship|Silesian]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = ''city county''
| leader_title = City mayor
| leader_name = Mariusz Wołosz ([[Civic Coalition (Poland)|KO]])
| established_title = Established
| established_date = 12th century
| established_title3 = City rights
| established_date3 = 1254
| elevation_min_m = 249
| elevation_max_m = 330
| area_total_km2 = 69.44
| population_as_of = 31 December 2021
| population_total = 161139 {{decrease}} ([[List of cities and towns in Poland|23rd]])<ref name="population">{{cite web|url=https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/bdl/dane/teryt/jednostka|title=Local Data Bank|access-date=2022-06-02|publisher=Statistics Poland}} Data for territorial unit 2462011.</ref>
| population_density_km2 = 2321
| population_urban = 2,710,397
| population_metro = 5,294,000
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| coordinates = {{coord|50|20|54|N|18|54|56|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| postal_code = 41-900–41-936
| area_code = +48 32
| blank_name = [[Polish car number plates|Car plates]]
| blank_info = SY
| blank_name_sec2 = Primary airport
| blank_info_sec2 = [[Katowice Airport]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.bytom.pl/}}
}}
'''Bytom''' (<small>Polish pronunciation:</small> {{IPAc-pl|AUD|Pl-Bytom.ogg|'|b|y|t|o|m}}; [[Silesian language|Silesian]]: ''Bytōm, Bytōń'', {{langx|de|Beuthen O.S.}}) is a city in [[Upper Silesia]], in southern [[Poland]]. Located in the [[Silesian Voivodeship]], the city is 7&nbsp;km northwest of [[Katowice]], the regional capital.

It is one of the oldest cities in the [[Upper Silesia]], and the former seat of the [[Silesian Piasts|Piast dukes]] of the [[Duchy of Bytom]]. Until 1532, it was in the hands of the [[Piast dynasty]], then it belonged to the [[House of Hohenzollern|Hohenzollern dynasty]]. After 1623 it was a [[state country]] in the hands of [[Henckel von Donnersmarck|the Donnersmarck family]]. From 1742 to 1945 the town was within the borders of [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] and [[Germany]], and played an important role as an economic and administrative centre of the [[Katowice urban area|local industrial region]]. Until the outbreak of [[World War II]], it was the main centre of national, social, cultural and publishing organisations fighting to preserve Polish identity in [[Upper Silesia]]. In the interbellum and during World War II, local Poles and Jews faced persecution by Germany.

{{Historical populations|1950|173955|1960|182578|1970|187500|1978|230844|1988|228306|2002|193546|2011|176902|2021|153274|footnote=source<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.polskawliczbach.pl/Bytom | title=Bytom (śląskie) » mapy, nieruchomości, GUS, noclegi, szkoły, regon, atrakcje, kody pocztowe, wypadki drogowe, bezrobocie, wynagrodzenie, zarobki, tabele, edukacja, demografia }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Demographic and occupational structure and housing conditions of the urban population in 1978-1988|url=https://statlibr.stat.gov.pl/exlibris/aleph/a22_1/apache_media/RQ1U9XAX48KJJDQ54QSAFQKQ6AK6GS.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Statistics Poland - National Censuses|url=https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/bdl/dane/podgrup/temat/}}</ref>}}

After the war, decades of the [[Polish People's Republic]] were characterized by a constant emphasis on the development of [[heavy industry]], which deeply polluted and degraded Bytom. After 1989, the city experienced a socio-economic decline. The population has also been rapidly declining since 1999. However, it is an important place in the cultural, entertainment, and industrial map of the region.

==Geology==
The bedrock of the Upland of [[:pl:Miechowice|Miechowice]] consists primarily of sandstones and slates. The rocks are punctuated with abundant natural resources of coal and iron ore from the Carboniferous period. In the north part of the upland, in the Bytom basin lays the broad range of the triassic rocks, from sandstones to limestones, with rich ore, zinc and lead reserves. The upper layer is composed of clay, sand and gravel.

==Coat of arms==
One half of the [[coat of arms of Bytom]] depicts a miner mining coal, while the other half presents a yellow eagle on the blue field – the symbol of [[Upper Silesia]].

==History==
[[File:Plackosciuszki.jpg|thumb|left|[[Tadeusz Kościuszko|Kosciuszko]] Square in the 1890s]]
Bytom is one of the oldest cities of [[Upper Silesia]], originally recorded as ''Bitom'' in 1136, when it was part of the Medieval [[Kingdom of Poland (1025–1385)|Kingdom of Poland]]. Archaeological discoveries have shown that there was a fortified settlement (a ''[[gród]]'') here, probably founded by the Polish King [[Bolesław I the Brave]] in the early 11th century.<ref>J. Kramer, ''Chronik der Stadt Beuthen in Ober-Schlesien'', Bytom, 1863, p. 1</ref>

After the [[Testament of Bolesław III Wrymouth|fragmentation of Poland]] in 1138, Bytom became part of the [[Seniorate Province]], as it was still considered part of historic [[Lesser Poland]]. In 1177 it became part of the [[Duchy of Silesia|Silesian]] province of Poland, and remained within historic [[Silesia]] since.<ref>Roman Majorczyk, ''Historia górnictwa kruszcowego w rejonie Bytomia'', Bytom, 1985, p. 9</ref> Bytom received [[city rights]] from Prince [[Władysław of Salzburg|Władysław]] in 1254 with its first centrally located market square. The city of Bytom benefited economically from its location on a trade route linking [[Kraków]] with Silesia from east to west, and [[Hungary]] with [[Moravia]] and [[Greater Poland]] from north to south. The first [[Roman Catholic]] Church of the Virgin Mary was built in 1231. In 1259 Bytom was raided by the [[Mongols]]. The Duchy of Opole was split and in 1281 Bytom became a [[Duchy of Bytom|separate duchy]], since 1289 under overlordship and administration of the [[Kingdom of Bohemia]]. [[Bytom Castle]] was built in around 1284-1299 and demolished in later centuries.  They duchy existed until 1498, when it was re-integrated with the [[Piast dynasty|Piast]]-ruled [[Duchy of Opole]]. Due to German settlers coming to the area, the city was being [[Germanization|Germanized]].

It came under the control of the [[Habsburg monarchy]] of [[Austria]] in 1526, which increased the influence of the German language. In 1683, Polish King [[John III Sobieski]] and his wife Queen [[Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien|Marie Casimire]], visited the city, greeted by the townspeople and clergy, on the king's way to the [[Battle of Vienna]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wilanow-palac.pl/jan_iii_sobieski_na_slasku_w_drodze_na_odsiecz_wiedniowi_roku_1683.html|title=Jan III Sobieski na Śląsku w drodze na odsiecz Wiedniowi roku 1683|website=Muzeum Pałacu Króla Jana III w Wilanowie|author=Paweł Freus|access-date=6 December 2020|language=pl}}</ref> The city became part of the [[Kingdom of Prussia]] in 1742 during the [[Silesian Wars]] and part of the [[German Empire]] in 1871. In the 19th and the first part of the 20th centuries, the city rapidly grew and industrialized.
[[File:Bytom Legionow 49 2023.jpg|thumb|left|190px|Polish Gymnasium in Bytom (2023)]]
[[File:Kalide002.jpg|thumb|[[Sleeping Lion, Bytom|The Sleeping Lion]] at Bytom's Market Square]]
Bytom was one of the main centers of Polish resistance against Germanization in Upper Silesia in the 19th century, up until the mid-20th century. Polish social, political and cultural organizations were formed and operated here. From 1848, the newspaper ''[[:pl:Dziennik Górnośląski|Dziennik Górnośląski]]'' was published here. Poles smuggled large amounts of gunpowder through the city to the [[Russian Partition]] of Poland during the [[January Uprising]] in 1863.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Pater|first=Mieczysław|year=1963|title=Wrocławskie echa powstania styczniowego|journal=Śląski Kwartalnik Historyczny Sobótka|language=pl|issue=4|page=418}}</ref> According to the Prussian census of 1905, the city of Beuthen had a population of 60,273, of which 59% spoke [[German language|German]], 38% spoke [[Polish language|Polish]] and 3% were bilingual.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Belzyt|first=Leszek|url=https://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/search?isbn|title=Sprachliche Minderheiten im preussischen Staat: 1815 - 1914 ; die preußische Sprachenstatistik in Bearbeitung und Kommentar|date=1998|publisher=Herder-Inst.|isbn=978-3-87969-267-5|location=Marburg}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In 1895, the [[Polish Sokół movement|"Sokół" Polish Gymnastic Society]] was established, and, during the [[Silesian uprisings]], in 1919–1920, Polish football clubs [[Szombierki Bytom|Poniatowski Szombierki]] and [[Polonia Bytom]] were founded, which later on, in post-[[World War II]] Poland both won the national championship. After [[World War I]], in the [[Upper Silesia plebiscite|Upper Silesian plebiscite]] of 1921, 74.7% of the votes in Beuthen city were for [[Weimar Republic|Germany]], and 25.3% were for [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]], due to which it remained in Germany, as part of the [[Province of Upper Silesia]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Aktuelle News, Schlagzeilen und Berichte aus aller Welt - Arcor.de|url=https://www.arcor.de/|access-date=2020-12-18|website=www.arcor.de}}</ref> In the interwar period, Bytom was one of two cities (alongside [[Kwidzyn]]) in [[Weimar Germany|Germany]], in which a Polish gymnasium was allowed to operate. In 1923 a branch of the [[Union of Poles in Germany]] was established in Bytom. There was also a Polish [[preschool]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rosenbaum|first1=Sebastian|last2=Węcki|first2=Mirosław|year=2010|title=Nadzorować, interweniować, karać. Nazistowski obóz władzy wobec Kościoła katolickiego w Zabrzu (1934–1944). Wybór dokumentów|language=pl|location=Katowice|publisher=[[Institute of National Remembrance|IPN]]|page=306|isbn=978-83-8098-299-4}}</ref> two [[scout troop]]s and a Polish bank.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cygański|first=Mirosław|year=1984|title=Hitlerowskie prześladowania przywódców i aktywu Związków Polaków w Niemczech w latach 1939 - 1945|journal=Przegląd Zachodni|language=pl|issue=4|pages=31, 33}}</ref> In a secret ''[[Sicherheitsdienst]]'' report from 1934, Bytom was named one of the main centers of the Polish movement in western Upper Silesia.<ref>Rosenbaum, Węcki, p. 60</ref> Polish activists were persecuted since 1937.<ref>Cygański, p. 24</ref> The [[Bytom Synagogue]] was burned down by Nazi German [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] and [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] troopers during the [[Kristallnacht]] on 9–10 November 1938. Before 1939, the town, along with Gleiwitz (now [[Gliwice]]), was at the southeastern tip of German Silesia.

===World War II and post-war period===
During the German [[invasion of Poland]], which started [[World War II]], the Germans carried out mass arrests of local Poles. On September 1, 1939, the day of the outbreak of the war, Adam Bożek, the chairman of the Upper Silesian district of the Union of Poles in Germany, was arrested in Bytom and then deported to the [[Dachau concentration camp]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Wardzyńska|first=Maria|year=2009|title=Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=IPN|page=78}}</ref> The Germans carried out revisions in the Polish gymnasium and the local Polish community centre, 20 Polish activists were arrested on September 4, 1939, then released and arrested again a few days later to be deported to the [[Buchenwald concentration camp]].<ref>Cygański, p. 32</ref> Also three Polish teachers, who had not yet fled, were arrested, while the assets of the Polish bank were confiscated.<ref>Cygański, p. 33</ref> The ''[[Einsatzgruppen|Einsatzgruppe I]]'' entered the city on September 6, 1939, to commit [[Nazi crimes against the Polish nation|atrocities against Poles]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Wardzyńska|first=Maria|year=2009|title=Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=IPN|page=58}}</ref> Many Poles were conscripted to the [[Wehrmacht]] and died on various war fronts, including 92 former students of the Polish gymnasium.<ref>Cygański, p. 63</ref> The [[Beuthen Jewish community]] was liquidated via the first ever [[Holocaust trains|Holocaust transport]] to be exterminated at [[Auschwitz-Birkenau]].<ref>[http://ellisisland.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html Jews deported from Beuthen (Bytom), list prepared in 1942] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090715230956/http://ellisisland.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html |date=15 July 2009}}</ref><ref>[http://ellisisland.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/bytom/Bytom1.html Elsa Drezner, Yizkor Book Project Manager Avraham Groll, Names of Jews deported from Beuthen] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726202938/http://ellisisland.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/bytom/Bytom1.html |date=26 July 2011 }}</ref><ref>[http://ellisisland.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/bytom/bytom.html Translations: deportation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726203021/http://ellisisland.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/bytom/bytom.html |date=26 July 2011}}</ref>

The Germans operated a Nazi prison in the city with a [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|forced labour]] subcamp in the present-day Karb district.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bundesarchiv.de/zwangsarbeit/haftstaetten/index.php?action=2.2&tab=7&id=432|title=Zuchthaus Beuthen|website=Bundesarchiv.de|access-date=6 December 2020|language=de}}</ref> There were also multiple forced labour camps within the present-day city limits, including six subcamps of the [[Stalag VIII-B|Stalag VIII-B/344]] [[German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II|prisoner-of-war camp]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lamsdorf.com/working-parties.html|title=Working Parties|website=Stalag VIIIB 344 Lamsdorf|access-date=6 December 2020|archive-date=October 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029103834/https://www.lamsdorf.com/working-parties.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Dozens of prisoners were sent from the Nazi prison on a [[Death marches during the Holocaust|death march]] westwards towards [[Głubczyce]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Konieczny|first=Alfred|year=1974|title=Więzienie karne w Kłodzku w latach II wojny światowej|journal=Śląski Kwartalnik Historyczny Sobótka|publisher=[[Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich]], Wydawnictwo [[Polish Academy of Sciences|Polskiej Akademii Nauk]]|location=Wrocław|language=pl|volume=XXIX|issue=3|page=377}}</ref>

In January 1945, the city was captured by the Soviet [[Red Army]]. Soviet troops then committed massacres of civilians in the present-day district of Miechowice and Stolarzowice, killing some 400 and 70 people, respectively, and raped many women.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Hanich|first=Andrzej|year=2012|title=Losy ludności na Śląsku Opolskim w czasie działań wojennych i po wejściu Armii Czerwonej w 1945 roku|journal=Studia Śląskie|volume=LXXI|location=Opole|language=pl|page=217|issn=0039-3355}}</ref> In 1945, the city was transferred to Poland as a result of the [[Potsdam Conference]].{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} Its German population was largely [[Expulsion of Germans after World War II|expelled]] by the Soviet Army and the remaining indigenous Polish inhabitants were joined mostly by [[Polish population transfers (1944–1946)|Poles repatriated]] from the eastern [[Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union|provinces annexed by the Soviets]].{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

In 2017, the [[Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry|Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and its Underground Water Management System]], located mostly in the neighboring city of [[Tarnowskie Góry]], but also partly in Bytom, was included on the [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage List]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1539/multiple=1&unique_number=2165|title=Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and its Underground Water Management System|website=UNESCO|access-date=29 September 2019}}</ref>

==Districts==
[[File:Bytom Subdivisions.svg|right|thumb|300px|Districts of Bytom]]
The city of Bytom is divided into 12 districts ([[Polish Language|Polish]]: ''Dzielnice''), year of inclusion within the city limits in brackets:
* [[Śródmieście, Bytom|Śródmieście]] (lit. ''city centre''/''downtown'')
* {{ill|Rozbark|pl}} (1927)
* [[Bobrek, Bytom|Bobrek]] (1951)
* {{ill|Karb, Bytom|pl|Karb (Bytom)|lt=Karb}} (1951)
* {{ill|Łagiewniki, Bytom|pl|Łagiewniki (Bytom)|lt=Łagiewniki}} (1951)
* {{ill|Miechowice, Bytom|pl|Miechowice|lt=Miechowice}} (1951)
* [[Szombierki]] (1951)
* {{ill|Górniki, Bytom|pl|Górniki (Bytom)|lt=Górniki}} (1975)
* {{ill|Osiedle gen. Jerzego Ziętka|pl}} (1975), also known as Sójcze Wzgórze
* {{ill|Stolarzowice|pl}} (1975)
* {{ill|Stroszek-Dąbrowa Miejska|pl|lt=Stroszek}} (1975)
* [[Sucha Góra, Bytom|Sucha Góra]] (1975)

[[Radzionków]] with [[Rojca]] (currently a district of Radzionków) were located within the city limits of Bytom from 1975 until 1997. Somehow there is (probably) autonomic district named "Vitor" in South Stroszek.

==Economy==
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[[File:Agorabytom.jpg|thumb|Agora Bytom shopping centre]]
Trade is one of the main pillars of the economy of Bytom. Being a city with long traditions of commercial trade, Bytom is fulfilling its new [[postindustrial]] role. In the centre of Bytom, and mainly around Station Street and the Market Square, is the largest concentration of registered merchants in the county.

In 2007, Bytom and its neighbours created the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union, the largest urban centre in Poland. The Union was superseded by [[Metropolis GZM]] in 2018.

==Public transport==
[[File:Pesa Twist Bytom Plac Sikorskiego.jpg|thumb|A [[Pesa Twist]] tram in Bytom]]
[[File:Webera 4.jpg|thumb|Tenement house on Weber's Street]]
The tram routes are operated by [[Silesian Interurbans]] [[Tramwaje Śląskie|Tramwaje Śląskie S.A]]

==Sport==
Bytom is home to [[Polonia Bytom]] which has both a football and an ice hockey team ([[TMH Polonia Bytom]]). Its football team played in the [[Ekstraklasa]], most recently from 2007 to 2011, winning it twice in [[1954 Ekstraklasa|1954]] and in [[1962 Ekstraklasa|1962]]. The [[Szombierki]] district is home to another former Polish champion [[Szombierki Bytom]] which won the title in [[1979–80 Ekstraklasa|1980]], and is one of the oldest clubs in the region. Other areas of the city host football clubs such as Górniki which is home to lower league club Rodło Górniki, founded in 1946.<ref>{{cite web |title=Historia |url=https://rodlogorniki.klubowo24.pl/Strona/Szczegoly/582/historia |website=rodlogorniki.klubowo24.pl |access-date=8 July 2024 |language=Polish}}</ref>

==Culture==
[[File:Bytom Opera Slaska facade.jpg|thumb|[[Silesian Opera]]]]
[[File:Bytom Upper Silesian Museum 2021.jpg|thumb|The Upper Silesian Museum]]
Bytom's cultural venues include:
* [[Silesian Opera]] – ul. Moniuszki 21/23
* {{ill|Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna w Bytomiu|pl}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.biblioteka.bytom.pl/ |title=Home |website=biblioteka.bytom.pl}}</ref> (Town's Public Library)
* Dance Theatre Rozbark in Bytom
* Bytomskie Centrum Kultury<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.becek.pl/|title=Bytomskie Centrum Kultury|first=ARF|last=DESIGN|website=www.becek.pl}}</ref> (Bytom Cultural Centre)
* Kronika – Center of modern art
* City Choir of St. Grzegorz Wielki
* Muzeum Górnośląskie (Upper Silesian Museum)

Among Bytom's art galleries are: Galeria Sztuki Użytkowej Stalowe Anioły, Galeria "Rotunda" MBP, Galeria "Suplement", Galeria "Pod Czaplą", Galeria "Platforma", Galeria "Pod Szrtychem", Galeria Sztuki "Od Nowa 2", Galeria SPAP "Plastyka" – Galeria "Kolor", Galeria "Stowarzyszenia.Rewolucja.Art.Pl", and Galeria-herbaciarnia "Fanaberia".

Festivals
* Annual International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival
* Theatromania – Theatre Festival
* Bytom Literary Autumn
* Festival of New Music

==Education==
[[File:Bytom - Ul. Powstańców Warszawskich 01.jpg|thumb|Kraszewski Street in Bytom]]
[[File:Bytom - Ul. Józefa Jainty 01.jpg|thumb|Townhouses on Jainty Street]]
* The list of Bytom universities includes:
** [[Silesian University of Technology]] – Faculty of Transport
** [[Medical University of Silesia]]
** Polish Japanese Institute of Information Technology
** Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomii i Administracji
* Secondary schools:
** I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Jana Smolenia
** II Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Stefana Żeromskiego
** IV Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Bolesława Chrobrego
** 21 other secondary schools

==Politics==

===Bytom/Gliwice/Zabrze constituency===
Members of Parliament ([[Sejm]]) elected in the [[2023 Polish parliamentary election|2023 election]] from Bytom/Gliwice/Zabrze constituency

{{Div col}}
* Marta Golbik, [[Civic Coalition (Poland)|KO]]
* Bożena Borys-Szopa, [[Law and Justice (Poland)|PiS]]
* Wanda Nowicka, [[New Left (Poland)|NL]]
* Wojciech Szarama, PiS
* Marek Gzik, KO
* Tomasz Głogowski, KO
* Jarosław Wieczorek, PiS
* Piotr Strach, [[Third Way (Poland)|TD]]
* Krystyna Szumilas, KO
 {{Div col end}}

==Notable people==
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* [[Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki]] ({{circa|1665–1734}}), Polish composer and musician
* [[Heinrich Schulz-Beuthen]] (1838–1915), German composer
* [[Siegfried Karfunkelstein]] (1848–1870), Prussian soldier
* [[Ernst Gaupp]] (1865–1916), German anatomist
* [[Ludwig Halberstädter]] (1876–1949), radiologist
* [[Adolf Kober]] (1879–1958), [[rabbi]] and historian
* [[Maximilian Kaller]] (1880–1947), bishop of Warmia
* [[Hermann Kober]] (1888-1973), Jewish-German mathematician 
* [[Kate Steinitz]] (1889–1975), German-American artist and art historian 
* [[Hartwig von Ludwiger]] (1895–1947), German general 
* [[Max Tau]] (1897–1976), Jewish-German-Norwegian writer, editor and publisher
* [[Henry J. Leir]] (1900–1998), American industrialist, financier, and philanthropist
* [[Friedrich Domin]] (1902–1961), German film actor
* [[Herbert Büchs]] (1913–1996), German General
* [[Józef Kachel]] (1913–1983), head of the [[World War II|pre-war]] [[Polish Scouting Association]] in Germany
* [[Hans-Joachim Pancherz]] (1914–2008), German aviator and test pilot
* [[Horst Winter]] (1914–2001), German-Austrian jazz musician
* [[Leo Scheffczyk]] (1920–2005), German theologian and cardinal
* [[Bent Melchior]](1929-2021) Chief Rabbi of Denmark and humanitarian.
* [[Haim Yavin]] (born 1932), Israeli news anchor
* [[Wolfgang Reichmann]] (1932–1991), German actor
* [[Reinhard Opitz]] (1934–1986), German political scientist 
* [[Leo-Ferdinand Henckel von Donnersmarck]] (1935–2009), German businessman and Catholic lay worker
* [[Józef Szmidt]] (born 1935), Polish triple jumper
* [[Jan Liberda]] (1936–2020), Polish footballer
* [[Hans-Jochen Jaschke]] (1941-2023), German Roman Catholic bishop
* [[Jan Banaś]] (born 1943), Polish footballer
* [[Walter Winkler]] (1943–2014), Polish footballer
* [[Zygmunt Anczok]] (born 1946), Polish footballer
* [[Jerzy Konikowski]] (born 1947), chess player
* [[Leszek Engelking]] (born 1955), Polish poet, writer, translator and scholar
* [[Waldemar Legień]] (born 1963), Polish judoka, Olympic champion from Seoul and Barcelona
* [[Michał Probierz]] (born 1972), Polish football manager and former football player
* [[Marcin Suchański]] (born 1977), Polish footballer
* [[Marzena Godecki]] (born 1978), Australian actress
* [[Dorota Kobiela]] (born 1978), Polish filmmaker 
* [[Paul Freier]] (born 1979), German footballer
* [[Marek Suker]] (born 1982), Polish footballer
* [[Gosia Andrzejewicz]] (born 1984), Polish pop singer
* [[Martyna Majok]] (born 1985), Polish-American playwright
* [[Weronika Murek]] (born 1989), Polish writer
* [[Mariusz Wodzicki]], Polish mathematician 
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==Twin towns – sister cities==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Poland}}
Bytom is [[Sister city|twinned]] with:<ref>{{cite web|title=Miasta partnerskie|url=https://www.bytom.pl/miasta-partnerskie|website=bytom.pl|publisher=Bytom|language=pl|access-date=2020-03-10|archive-date=December 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204172621/https://www.bytom.pl/miasta-partnerskie|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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*{{flagicon|USA}} [[Butte, Montana|Butte]], United States
*{{flagicon|UKR}} [[Drohobych]], Ukraine
*{{flagicon|SVN}} [[Ormož]], Slovenia
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Recklinghausen]], Germany
*{{flagicon|CZE}} [[Vsetín]], Czech Republic
*{{flagicon|UKR}} [[Zhytomyr]], Ukraine
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==Gallery==
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File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P011875, Oberschlesien, Kraftwerk.jpg|[[Szombierki Heat Power Station|Bobrek power station]] in the 1930s
File:Rynek w Bytomiu i widok na kamienice.jpg|Market square
File:Bytom - City hall 01.jpg|Bytom city hall
File:Kosciol sw jacka rozbark tyl.jpg|[[Hyacinth of Poland|St. Hyacinth]]'s Church – an example of [[Neo-Romantic]] architecture in Bytom
File:Bytom - Plac Akademicki 01.JPG|''Plac Akademicki'' – public square
File:Bytom - Kościół pw. Świętej Trójcy 04.jpg|Holy Trinity Church
File:Fasadaivlo.img.jpg|IV Secondary School
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==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://www.bytom.pl/en/welcome Municipality of Bytom] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170112081707/http://www.bytom.pl/en/welcome |date=January 12, 2017 }}

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