Editing Tychy (section)

===New Tychy===
The "New City" was designated by the Polish government in 1950 and deliberately located near to [[Katowice]] with the intention that it would not be a self-sustaining city. It was granted [[town rights]] in 1951.<ref name=ety/> Tychy is the largest of the so-called "[[new town]]s" in Poland and was built from 1950 to 1985, to allow for urban expansion in the southeast of the [[Upper Silesian Industrial Region|Upper Silesian industrial region]]. In the 1950s the neighbourhood ''Osiedle A'' was built, designed by Tadeusz Teodorowicz-Todorowski, and the design and planning of the next neighbourhoods was entrusted to {{interlanguage link|Kazimierz Wejchert|pl}} and his wife {{interlanguage link|Hanna Adamczewska-Wejchert|pl}}.<ref name=ety/> In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s numerous industrial enterprises were created.<ref name=ety/> In 1951 and 1973 the city limits were greatly expanded by including [[Paprocany]] and [[Wilkowyje]] (in 1951),<ref>{{Cite Polish law|title=Rozporządzenie Prezesa Rady Ministrów z dnia 8 listopada 1950 r. w sprawie nadania ustroju miejskiego niektórym gminom w województwach: katowickim i warszawskim, gromadzie Hajnówka w województwie białostockim oraz zniesienia i zmiany granic niektórych miast i gmin w województwach katowickim i białostockim.|year=1950|volume=51|number=472}}</ref> and [[Cielmice, Tychy|Cielmice]], Urbanowice, Jaroszowice (in 1973) as new districts.<ref name=ety/> By 2006, the population had reached 132,500.

In the administrative reforms which came into effect in 1999, Tychy was made a city with the status of a [[powiat]] (city county). Between 1999 and 2002, it was also the administrative seat of (but not part of) an entity called Tychy County (''powiat tyski''), which is now known as the [[Bieruń-Lędziny County]].

[[File:Tyskie Browary Książęce.jpg|thumb|Brewery in Tychy on the right, [[Tyskie Brewing Museum]] on the left]]
The [[Tyskie Brewing Museum]] was founded in 2004, and the Municipal Museum in 2005.<ref name=ety/>