Sękowa municipality · Beskid Niski · a spa on one sheet
Wapienne
Two water intakes, two spa parks, a few facilities and a private centre on 17 ha — that is what fitted into the municipal report and the historical study.
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Below are three viewpoints on the same list, one under another; each item states what changes in each of them.
Nine items from one report and one historical study. Choose a viewpoint: the list will arrange itself around water, garden or dates, some items will move to the background, and some will turn out to lie outside that viewpoint. This is not a plan of the place — the order of the rows does not indicate distance or a route.
Two names, one class, a different order of constituents
The municipal report describes both intakes as sulphide, weakly mineralised waters. They differ in which of the two cations, calcium or sodium, the report names first.
| Intake | 1. | 2. | 3. |
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| Kamila | HCO₃ | Ca | Na |
| Marta | HCO₃ | Na | Ca |
What is missing: the point where water is drawn, access, opening hours. The report is not information on whether water can be drawn, and this page is not health advice.
Five interiors and routes — and no plan
The report names two spa parks, a graduation tower and a fountain; to these is added the promenade from a 2019 photograph. It is a set of small open-air places. We have no plan or measurements, so there is no drawing of the paths here, and the order on the list is not the order of a walk.
The records are uneven: the graduation tower is a municipal facility, while the report lists the Spa House within the grounds of a sanatorium centre (whether this is the 17 ha centre and whether it is private — to be checked). For the parks and the fountain, the material does not settle this. Season, opening hours and works: to be checked before a visit.
Of nine items, only one has dates
In the material, the bathing establishment has the year 1848, two fires and two rebuildings. The other eight items have no date for the object (including the promenade, of which only the photograph is dated): they are neither “new” nor “old”, and they do not sit on the axis under the latest year. In the counter this shows as 7 items “undated” plus 1 “date not the object’s” (the promenade).
In this viewpoint the chronology strip at the bottom of the page is highlighted. A gap on it means a lack of entries in the material, not a period without events.
List: nine items
The division into “in focus / in the background / outside” (and the numbers beside the buttons and in the counter) is an editorial choice of this page, not data from the report; only the “From the document” paragraphs are sourced.
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“Kamila” water intake
Water intake
Water. Bicarbonates, calcium, sodium — calcium before sodium, the reverse of Marta. Name and classification from the report; we have no figures.
Garden. An underground intake, not a garden. The material does not say where it lies in relation to the parks.
Rebuilding. No date in the material: we do not know since when the intake has had this name.
From the documentSulphide water, weakly mineralised. Main constituents in the report’s classification: bicarbonates, calcium, sodium (Raport o stanie Gminy Sękowa za 2024 r., rozdz. 5.5 [Report on the state of Sękowa municipality for 2024, ch. 5.5]).
TodayPoint where water is drawn, access and opening hours: no data in the material. The report is not information on whether water can be drawn.
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“Marta” water intake
Water intake
Water. Bicarbonates, sodium, calcium — sodium before calcium, the reverse of Kamila. The same class of water, a different order in the classification.
Garden. An underground intake, not a garden. Position in relation to the parks: unknown.
Rebuilding. No date in the material.
From the documentSulphide water, weakly mineralised. Main constituents in the report’s classification: bicarbonates, sodium, calcium (Raport o stanie Gminy Sękowa za 2024 r., rozdz. 5.5 [Report on the state of Sękowa municipality for 2024, ch. 5.5]).
TodayPoint where water is drawn, access and opening hours: no data in the material. The report is not information on whether water can be drawn.
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Marysieńka’s Garden
Spa park
Water. A park, not an intake. The name of the garden does not imply that it contains medicinal water.
Garden. One of two interiors with the status of a spa park. The material contains no layout of paths or boundaries.
Rebuilding. No date of founding or redesign in the material.
From the documentOne of two spa parks listed in the infrastructure inventory of Sękowa municipality for 2024 (municipal report).
TodayOpen-air grounds (record from V2). Condition, opening hours and works: to be checked before a visit.
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Laura’s Garden
Spa park
Water. A park, not an intake.
Garden. The second spa park in the inventory. Distances to Marysieńka’s Garden, the graduation tower or the fountain: unknown.
Rebuilding. No date of founding or redesign in the material.
From the documentThe second of two spa parks in the infrastructure inventory of Sękowa municipality for 2024 (municipal report).
TodayOpen-air grounds (record from V2). Condition, opening hours and works: to be checked before a visit.
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Brine graduation tower
Spa facility
Water. An inhalation facility. The material does not link it to the Kamila and Marta intakes, so we do not assume a shared water source.
Garden. An open-air spa facility; described in the material as municipal.
Rebuilding. No construction date in the material.
From the documentListed in the municipal report for 2024 as spa infrastructure serving inhalation. A municipal facility (record from V2).
TodaySeasonal operation and the municipality’s current technical works: to be checked.
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Fountain of Health and Rest
Small architectural feature
Water. The name “fountain” does not say where the water comes from or whether it is drinkable.
Garden. A recreational element in the park, listed in the report next to the graduation tower.
Rebuilding. No date in the material.
From the documentA park feature listed in the municipal report (report) next to the brine graduation tower.
TodayWhether and how it works: to be checked.
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Spa House (Dom Zdrojowy)
Building
Water. A building of the treatment facilities; the material does not describe where it gets its water.
Garden. A building, not a garden. Listed next to the parks, but without a plan we do not know how close.
Rebuilding. No date in the material; we do not identify it with the old establishment of 1848.
From the documentA building of the treatment facilities, listed in the report within the grounds of a sanatorium centre.
TodaySanatorium function (record from V2). Whether visitors may enter: unknown.
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Napoleonic Promenade
Walking route
Water. A walking route; water is not its subject in the material.
Garden. A paved route with street lamps (description of the photograph from V2). Where it leads in relation to the parks: unknown.
Rebuilding. It is the photograph that is dated (17 February 2019), not the route itself.
From the documentA photograph by Henryk Bielamowicz of 17 February 2019 (Wikimedia Commons, link in the sources) shows, according to the description from V2, a paved route with street lamps and sanatorium buildings. A mention of the promenade in the municipal report: to be checked.
TodayThe photograph shows one day in winter 2019, not the present condition or accessibility.
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Bathing establishment (1848)
Historical trace
Water. In 1848 it had 50 bathtubs in 36 cabins, so it used water; the material does not indicate from which intake.
Garden. Bathing buildings, not a garden; the material does not give their location.
Rebuilding. The only item with dates: 1848, fires in 1878 and 1894, rebuilding of the bathhouses in 1904–1906 and 1920–1924 (strip at the bottom of the page).
From the document1848: three villas, 50 bathtubs in 36 cabins. Fires in 1878 and 1894 interrupted development; the bathhouses were rebuilt in 1904–1906 and 1920–1924 (study of the spa’s history).
TodayWhich of these buildings stand today — the material does not say.
Scale: 17 hectares is one square, not the whole village
The municipal report for 2024 gives 17 ha for a private sanatorium and treatment centre. One hectare is 10,000 m², so 17 ha is 170,000 m²; if it were square, its side would be c. 412 m (the square root of 170,000). We do not know the actual shape.
The spa area is something else: it covers the village units (sołectwa) of Wapienne and Męcina Wielka, and spa-town status was granted on 8 April 1986. Its area is not in the material, so we neither draw it nor enter zero. Nor do we know how many of the parks and facilities lie within these 17 ha.
See also the viewpoint: Rebuilding (what has a date and what does not).
Timeline of rebuilding 1848–2024
- 1848Three villas, 50 bathtubs in 36 cabins.
- 1878 and 1894Two fires interrupt development.
- 1904–1906Rebuilding of the bathhouses.
- 1920–1924Another rebuilding of the bathhouses. V2 linked it to the First World War; this link is to be checked.
- 8 April 1986Spa-town status.
- 2024Date of the municipal report (17 ha, two village units) — a document, not an event.
Spacing on the strip is proportional to years. The dotted gap 1924–1986 means a lack of entries in the material, not a lack of events. Only dated events appear on the strip; eight items from the list have no date for the object (including the promenade, of which only the photograph is dated), and there is no place for them on the axis.
Limits, and what disappeared from V2
What this page does not do
- It is not a map or a plan. The layout of the rows does not indicate distance, adjacency or a walking route.
- The descriptions of waters are not health advice and do not say that the water can be drawn or drunk. Access, opening hours, season and works: to be checked with the municipality or the manager before a visit.
- The content comes from the V2 material. In this version the sources were not reopened, so the links are pointers for checking, not confirmation.
- Missing are our own photographs, a consulted plan and a rebuilding document (e.g. a scan).
Removed or changed relative to V2
- 60-minute calculator (distance, pace, stops): the report does not give the lengths of paths, so the numbers were examples out of thin air. Replaced by three viewpoints on the same list.
- Notes and saving in the browser: unnecessary. V3 saves nothing; V2 notes may remain in the browser’s storage under the key
atlas-v2-92and are removed in the browser settings. - Register and diagram filters: nine rows fit on the screen without filtering. The purpose of the diagram (categories and scale) was taken over by the viewpoints and the 17 ha diagram.
- Embedded photograph from the internet: replaced by a link, because the page is meant to work offline.
- Annotations on the timeline with no basis in the material (among them “wooden infrastructure”, “resumption of seasons in 1924”): removed.
Sources
Links carried over from V2. They were not opened in V3; the content described above needs checking against these documents. The page loads nothing from them — they are ordinary links.
- Sękowa municipality — Raport o stanie Gminy Sękowa za 2024 r., rozdz. 5.5 [Report on the state of Sękowa municipality for 2024, ch. 5.5]: the Kamila and Marta intakes, parks, facilities, 17 ha, village units.
- Wapienne spa — Study of the spa’s history (in Polish): the state in 1848, fires, rebuilding, date of status 8 April 1986.
- Photograph, not embedded — Henryk Bielamowicz, “Wapienne, promenada napoleońska (HB9)” [Wapienne, Napoleonic promenade (HB9)], 17 February 2019, Wikimedia Commons, licence according to V2: CC BY-SA 4.0 (to be checked on the file page).