The John West Ranch in Zabrze

In the nineteenth century, Rokitnica was already a large, industrial settlement, which was part of Count von Ballestrem’s property. Count was the owner, among others, of the mines "Castellengo" ("Rokitnica") and "Abwehr" ("Mikulczyce '). In the early decades of the twentieth century, Count took a special care of the miners working for him and built a housing estate „Stara Rokitnica”. It resembles a well-kept village with houses for four and eight families, next to which a school, a pharmacy and other public facilities were built.

The buildings of the Centre for Disabled People in Zabrze Rokitnica were built in the years 1902-1904. They were designed by brothers Emil and Georg Zillmann, Berlin architects. The brothers became known in Upper Silesia for several projects, including Giszowiec, a workers' housing estate. Today, the buildings are owned by the Medical University of Silesia. The Faculty of Medicine with the Department of Dentistry are housed here.

Mikulczyce was mentioned at the beginning of the fourteenth century as Mikulczicz and, later as Niculticz. For a long time, it was an independent village until the 50s of the twentieth century, when it became a district of Zabrze. Industrial development took place with the acquistion of the village by the von Donnersmarck in the first half of the nineteenth century. A Lutheran church was built in less than two months in 1937, using environmentally friendly solutions from Scandinavia.

Mikulczyce was incorporated into Zabrze only in 1951. Earlier, for a few hundred years, Mikulczyce was an independent village, whose inhabitants lived mainly from farming. For a long time industrialization skirted the area - the first coal mine was built here at the beginning of the twentieth century. The communal Hall was erected in 1902, and at the end of the 1930s it was rebuilt. The building features an Eclectic style, but with some spectacular Art Nouveau elements.

In Mikulczyce, a district of Zabrze, it is worthwhile to see as many as three historic churches: a wooden Protestant church and two Roman Catholic ones. One of the Catholic churches is dedicated to Saint Teresa and the other to Saint Lawrence. The latter was built in the neo-Gothic style in the late nineteenth century. It was designed by Paul Jackisch, an eminent architect from Bytom. The new church replaced an old, wooden one, which had served the faithful for hundreds of years.

The manor house in Mikulczyce, also called the New Manor, is presently closed to the public and, unfortunately, now, heavily vandalized. The building, dating from the late eighteenth century, was erected when the local property owners were Barons Doleczkowie. For quite a long time, from 1830 until the Second World War, the mansion itself together with the farm homestead was in the hands of the powerful Silesian family of von Donnersmarck.

The "Sparta" Inn has 14 guest rooms.

The inn-restaurant, organizes special events, restaurant serves Polish cuisine, the object has rooms 1 - and 2-passenger, a banquet hall for 80 persons and a drink bar.

Gorgeous kitchen offers regional Silesian dishes prepared according to old recipes, menu of original dishes such as: traditional roll or dumplings, and bratkartofle wodzionka, krupnioki, żymloki and many other delicacies.