Polish Tourist Country-Lovers' Society (PTTK) Division no 16
PTTK Division existence on Jaworzno III Power Plant premises days back to mid 1970s i.e. since the plant construction commencement. At first, PTTK Division no 42 was established, run by Rajmund Zarębski – the Chairman. In 1985 a new Division no 16 was set up and it has been active till today. The first Chairman of the new Division was Jurek Darek, then Ryszard Wróbel and since 2002 Genowefa Bachowska. There are 50 members in the Division. Over the years PTTK Division has organized sightseeing excursions, rallies, photographic contests and it has helped to organize trips for physically-challenged children. Trips which are held on annual basis are: ‘the Croci’, participation in all-Polish rallies, power engineers’ rally or the participation in ‘Fulfilled Dreams’ rally. The Division objective is to popularize hiking, mountain hiking, cycling, to show beautiful sites in Poland and abroad, exercising in the open air, familiarization with the history and establishing bonds between our power plant employees and their families.
There is a saying: ‘You praise the foreign and ignore your own, you do not know what you own!’ and it is entirely true because in Poland there are monuments and beautiful green areas you can visit travelling with us. From 1985 to 2010 the Division organized circa 400 excursions in which circa 12,000 people took part. The participants had a chance to hike on almost all trails and climb the highest mountains in Beskidy: Skrzyczne, Czantoria, Babia Góra, Równica, Jaworzyna Krynicka, Leskowiec, and Lubomir. In Pieniny: Trzy Korony, Sokolica, Wysoka in Gorce: Turbacz, Czerwone Wierchy, Gorc among others as well as numerous trails in Tatra Mountains, Bieszczady, Góry Stołowe, Karkonosze and Kłodzko Valley.
We visited all most beautiful and biggest Polish cities: Warsaw, Poznań, Łódź, Trójmiasto, Kraków, Szczecin, Wrocław, Sandomierz, Wieliczka, Przemyśl, Łańcut, Zamość and many others. We also went to Baltic capital cities: Oslo. Copenhagen, Stockholm, Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn, Helsinki, we visited the former capital city of Russia – Petersburg and also Berlin, Potsdam, Prague, Vienna, Bratislava. While travelling we visited the following monuments: the Piast Trail, the Renaissance Trail, Białowieża Forest, Opole land, Zamość and the Roztocze National Park, Kujawy, Mazury, Suwałki land, Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska, wooden architecture trail, monuments of technique trail, and many others which one can count due to their incalculable number.
Excursion participants collect points in order to get special badges of: hiking or mountain climbing tourism. In 1993 the Division was given a Diploma of recognition for its activity given by the Jaworzno Town Council; Genowefa Bachowska and Ryszard Wróbel were recognized for their work with diplomas and decorations.
In 2010 the Division planned 13 excursions, among others a 3-day trip to Kaszuby, 10-day to Crimea, to Leipzig and to the Tropical Island, hiking in the Pieniny Mountains, in the Tatra Mountains with relaxing time spent in the thermal swimming pools.
Current Division no 16 Management Board:
| Chairman: | Genowefa Bachowska - Zacharewicz |
| Vice-chairman: | Jerzy Zięba |
| Treasurer: | Urszula de Rosenburg - Grohs |
| Head of the Auditing Committee: | Krystyna Byrczek |
| Member of the Auditing Committee: | Bogusław Malawski |
| Member of the Auditing Committee: | Dariusz Starczyk |
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