Gmina Świdnica

Gmina Świdnica
	Gmina Świdnica
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lower Silesia
Powiat :	Świdnica
Geographic location :	50 ° 51 ′  N , 16 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 0 ″  N , 16 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E
Residents :	see Gmina
Postal code :	56-400
Telephone code :	(+48) 74
License plate :	DSW
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw
Gmina
Gminatype:	Rural community
Gmina structure:	33 school authorities
Surface:	208.28 km²
Residents:	6488 (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density :	31 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ):	0219052
Administration (as of 2013)
Mayor :	Teresa Mazurek
Address:	ul.B. Głowackiego 4 58-100 Świdnica
Website :	www.gmina.swidnica.pl

The Gmina Świdnica is a rural municipality in the powiat Świdnicki , in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in the south-western part of Poland . The seat of the municipality is the district town Świdnica ( German Schweidnitz ).

geography

The municipality includes the town of Świdnica. It is the administrative seat of the rural community, but does not belong to it, but forms an independent urban community.

Community structure

Gmina Świdnica is divided into 33 districts with a Schulzenamt (sołectwo):

• Bojanice ( Ludwigsdorf )
• Boleścin ( mushrooms )
• Burkatów ( Burkersdorf )
• Bystrzyca Dolna ( Nieder Weistritz )
• Bystrzyca Górna ( Upper Weistritz )
• Gogołów ( Goglau )
• Grodziszcze ( Gräditz , until 1930: Royal Gräditz )
• Jagodnik ( Grunau )
• Jakubów ( Jakobsdorf )
• Komorów ( Cammerau )
• Krzczonów ( White Cherry Village )
• Krzyżowa ( Kreisau )
• Lubachów ( Breitenhain )
• Lutomia Dolna ( Nieder Leutmannsdorf )
• Lutomia Górna ( Ober Leutmannsdorf )
• Makowice ( Schwengfeld )
• Miłochów ( Nieder Giersdorf )
• Modliszów ( Hohgiersdorf )
• Mokrzeszów ( Kunzendorf )
• Niegoszów ( Nitschendorf )
• Opoczka ( Esdorf )
• Panków ( Penkendorf )
• Pogorzała ( Seifersdorf )
• Pszenno ( wheat rodau )
• Słotwina ( Schönbrunn )
• Stachowice ( Groß Friedrichsfelde )
• Sulisławice ( Zülzendorf )
• Wieruszów ( Wierischau )
• Wilków ( Wilkau )
• Wiśniowa ( Roth Kirschdorf )
• Witoszów Dolny ( Nieder Bögendorf )
• Witoszów Górny ( Ober Bögendorf ) and
• Zawiszów ( Säbischdorf )

Personalities

• Rudolf von Horn (1866–1934), Prussian general, born in Nieder Giersdorf
• Hellmut Froböß (1884–1956), Police President of Danzig and President of the Higher Regional Court in Posen, born in Seifersdorf.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Italic : German place names
3. ↑ Wilkau (Schweidnitz district)