Gmina Andrychów - herb 2

The Municipality of Andrychów

34-120 Andrychów
ul. Rynek 15
www.andrychow.eu
phone: (33) 842-99-00 lub (33) 875-23-60
fax: (33) 875-29-16
e-mail: info@andrychow.eu

The town and municipality of Andrychów is located in the South of Poland. It is in the closest proximity to such cities as: Cracow, Bielsko-Biała as well as Wadowice and Oświęcim. Given its location, the municipality is a very attractive tourist centre of Beskid Mały. Andrychów offers an excellent base for leisure, where one can have fun and relax in many different ways. It is diversity that is the actual magnet if this area, which makes you take delight in and fall in love with the Beskidy hills forever. It is a place awash with attractions.

The greatest natural values of the municipality are:

  • vast areas of fields on hills without any building, with expansive panoramic views in all directions,
  • numerous valleys of streams and brooks, which are in the major part inflows of the Wieprzówka river,
  • a variety of natural forms such as forests, wooded valleys and gorges, rocky exposures, and xerothermic turfs.

Forests cover 40% of the municipality, where the following forms of environment protection are in place:

  • The Beskid Mały Landscape Park with its buffer zone
  • Madohora Nature Reserve
  • The Natura 2000 area – Special Area of Habitat Protection Beskid Mały (PLH240023)
  • Documentation site “Potok Rzyczanka” (“Rzyczanka Stream”)
  • 12 natural monuments

The picturesque Beskid Mały Landscape Park itself occupies 42% of the Andrychów municipality, and together with the buffer zone even a greater chunk of 81% of the total area. The Park was established in order to protect the unique natural, landscape and cultural values of Beskid Mały, with concurrent development of educational, scientific, tourist and recreational functions.

The Andrychów is situated on 100 km2 and, based on data from the end of 2020, is inhabited by approximately 43’000 people.

Two major transportation routes – the national road DK 52 (East-West direction) and the regional road DW 781 (North-South) provides excellent external connections in the following directions:

  • eastwards to Wadowice and Cracow,
  • westwards to Oświęcim County and Bielsko-Biała (Silesia Voivodeship),
  • northwards to the northern part of the Wadowice County and Zator (Oświęcim County),
  • southwards to the county of Żywiec.

The road system is supplemented by county and municipal roads, providing local connections with the neighbouring municipalities. Besides the road infrastructure, the transport links are also supplemented by the secondary single-track railway line no. 117 between Kalwaria Zebrzydowska Lanckorona and Bielsko-Biała Główna (East-West direction).

Locally, railway transport offers connections only between the town of Andrychów and the village of Inwałd. The transport system of Andrychów, in the part involving elements of the supra-local network, is important for how the municipality can further develop. At present, the DK 52 road is the main transport corridor and passes through highly urbanised areas.

The construction of the Beskid Integration Road, linking Bielsko-Biała with Głogoczów near Cracow, is planned to be conluded by 2031. The road, 61 km long, is to be a bypass for Kęty, Andrychów, Wadowice and Kalwaria Zebrzydowska. The investment will diminish the negative effects of increased wheeled traffic on the DK 52 road and will enable the road to be fully incorporated into the municipal internal transport service, and most importantly will open an effective link between the Cracow agglomeration and the Czech Republic and Slovakia, via the dynamic Bielsko-Biała agglomeration, but also unlock the development potential for neighbouring towns including Andrychów. There will be new stimuli for the economic development and settlement functions as this investment will have a considerable impact on Andrychów’s investment attractiveness.

Municipal public transport is currently made of 9 transport lines, connecting the town of Andrychów with all the villages. On the basis of the agreement concluded with Komunikacja Beskidzka (Beskidy Communication), there is also a connection between Kęty and Andrychów (via Bulowice and Czaniec). Moreover, public transport is provided by private carriers in the directions of, among others, Wadowice, Chocznia, Wieliczka, and Kęty, Wieprz and Frydrychowice.

The town of Andrychów has industrial traditions dating back to the 18th century. It overcame problems connected with the political transformation and is now also developing as an industrial centre.

Andrychów is one of the most significant industrial centres in the Małopolskie Voivodeship. Various industrial branches are growing, and more and more new businesses decide to place their activities here. This is largely due to Economic Activity Zone which was established in 2008. The Zone is 27.95 ha large, of which 15.9 ha were incorporated as the Andrychów Subzone into the Cracow Special Economic Zone.

Investors planning to start investments in the Andrychów municipality may take advantage of CIT or PIT exemptions for the period of 12 years.

The Polish Investment Zone (PSI) is another form of support for businesses planning on new investments.

The investment can be located on all sites (private and public).

The amount of public welfare (tax exemption) is calculated on the basis of the amount of investment expenditures borne by the entrepreneur for the implementation of a new project or the two-year cost of newly created jobs.

The minimum investment outlays are as follows:

  • large company: 60 million PLN;
  • medium company: 12 million PLN;
  • small company: 3 million PLN;
  • micro company: 1.2 million PLN.

Tourism is the second, after industry, very important and rapidly developing branch of the Andrychów’s economy. Andrychów’s location at the heart of Beskid Mały makes it an ideal base for trips, and various forms of recreation on offer are attracting more and more tourists every year.

The uptake of tourist is linked with a noticeable increase in the number of agritourist farmhouses popping up, as well as with the modernisation of the already existing ones and so a broader accommodation base in general.

The surroundings of Andrychów are a superb place for a one-day or a few-day recreation in both summer and winter; after all, Andrychów is a place awash with attractions!

In the winter you can go skiing or snowboarding on the slopes located in the “Czarny Groń” and “Kocierz” centres, and in the summer you can go hiking in the mountains along the trails of Beskid Mały or both summer and winter enjoy the other attractions of the municipality.

These include:

  • Miniature Park “Dream World”;
  • Inwałd Fortress;
  • The Garden of John Paul II;
  • The Dinosaurs and Amusement Park “Dinolandia”;
  • The “Kucyk” (“Pony”) Mini Zoo;
  • Magic Village in the “Czarny Groń” complex;
  • Natural Aquapark and rope park in the “Kocierz” complex;
  • Indoor swimming pool;
  • Outdoor swimming pool;
  • “Hucuły” stanitsa;
  • Historical and Ethnographic Museum.

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