Poltegor Centre

Poltegor Centre

Poltegor Centre (formerly Poltegor) was the highest building in Wrocław. It was built in 1982 and the name originates from a company called Poltegor (an acronym for Polska Technika Górnicza) dealing in mining. During 1980s, the building was the company’s headquarters, and even after that period they still occupied a fair part of the building. Demolition of the building has now finished.

The technology behind the building is a central ferroconcrete core around which each floor has been built. Because the floors have been built using a mould, all of them are of exactly the same size and form. The core itself houses elevator shafts, staircases, and emergency and maintenance shafts.

Although the building was standing tall at 125 metres, the actual height to the roof was 92 metres. It consisted of 25 floors and one underground floor. The underground floor is accessed via three cargo elevators (out of the total number of 9 installed), as the floor is used only by the building’s staff. The next level is the main hall of the building from where one takes an elevator. The next 22 floors were rented as office space and the last floor was a conference hall and a sightseeing platform. On the roof there is an antenna mounted which is used by various radio and TV broadcasters. From here, for example, the first post-Soviet, independent TV (Prywatna Telewizja "Echo") broadcast. Its last users were regional broadcasters e.g. Radio Aplauz, Tok FM, Radiostacja, RMF Classic, and Telewizja Dolnośląska TeDe. The building is no longer in use for commercial purposes.

Rescue exercises. Life-saving with burning building.

On January 18, 2007, Poltegor (along with the neighboring land) was bought by a local businessman, Leszek Czarnecki. Czarnecki decided to demolish the building on June 2, 2007 and built the Sky Tower, a 258-metre-tall apartment building, which was completed in 2012. Poltegor has been completely demolished and its successor, the Sky Tower, is now standing.