Ventilation shaft of ZG Sobieski in Jaworzno, part of the historic Jaworzno coal-mining complex derived from the Fryderyk August / Piłsudski mine system.
Szyb Traugutt is a documented shaft of Zakład Górniczy Sobieski in Jaworzno, Upper Silesia. It belongs to the historic Jaworzno coal-mining complex whose lineage includes the Fryderyk August, Piłsudski, Jacek Rudolf / Kościuszko, Jaworzno and Bierut mine names. In the reorganised Sobieski mine system, five shafts of the former mine were retained: the extraction shaft Sobieski III, the ventilation shafts Traugutt and Leopold, and the auxiliary shafts Helena and Karolina.
The supplied coordinates place the record in southern Jaworzno within the Sobieski mining area. The shaft should be treated as a confirmed ZG Sobieski shaft record.
The Szyb Traugutt record belongs to the long coal-mining history of Jaworzno, where coal extraction developed from the late eighteenth century around the Fryderyk August colliery and its successor undertakings. Over time the mining field passed through a series of reorganisations and names, including Piłsudski, Jacek Rudolf / Kościuszko, Jaworzno and Bierut, before forming part of the modern Zakład Górniczy Sobieski.
Szyb Traugutt is documented as one of the retained shafts of the Sobieski mine. A published account of Sobieski / Jaworzno III states that of eleven shafts of the old mine, five were retained: Szyb Sobieski III for extraction, Szyb Traugutt and Szyb Leopold for ventilation, and Szyb Helena and Szyb Karolina for auxiliary functions. The same account identifies the mine’s basic production level as the 500-metre level. Industrial photographic records also identify the surviving surface installation as ZG Sobieski — szyb Traugutt, including the engine house and winding engine.
The site should therefore be understood as a shaft of the active or recently operating Sobieski coal-mining complex, not as an unverified outlying remnant. The exact original sinking date, shaft depth, and earlier naming history of Szyb Traugutt have not yet been established from the consulted sources, but its operational identity within ZG Sobieski is supported. Further archival research may refine the shaft-specific chronology.