Althammer (Kieferstädtel)

Old ; hammer Trachy
	Old ; hammer Trachy
	Old ; hammer Trachy
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
Powiat :	Gliwice (Gliwice)
Gmina :	Kieferstädtel
Geographic location :	50 ° 15 ′ N , 18 ° 31 ′ E Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 21 ″ N , 18 ° 30 ′ 52 ″ E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 032
License plate :	SGL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice
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Althammer (Polish: Trachy ) is a town in Upper Silesia . It is located in the municipality of Kieferstädtel in the Powiat Gliwicki (district of Gliwice) in the Silesian Voivodeship .

geography

Althammer is located about three kilometers southwest of the municipality of Kieferstädtel , 13 kilometers west of the district town Gliwice ( Gleiwitz ) and 36 kilometers west of the voivodeship capital Katowice ( Kattowitz ).

The Birawka flows through the village .

history

The place originated around 1550 and was founded by Johann Trach as a hut or industrial place. The former place name Trachhammer, which later became Althammer, was derived from the founder.

In 1703 the first blast furnace in Upper Silesia was built in Althammer on the initiative of Count Jacob Heinrich von Flemming instead of a fresh fire or racing furnace . This was named Trachhammer.

The place was in 1783 in the book Beytrage to describe Silesia as Althammer and Trachhammer mentioned, but also as Quarghammer (which is an independent village formed), was in the district of Tost and had 470 inhabitants, a Vorwerk, a high-Hofen, two fresh fire, a school, 16 farmers, 64 gardeners and a few cottagers. In 1818 the place was mentioned as an old hammer . In 1865 the village of Althammer had twelve farmers, eleven half-farmers, 51 quarter-farmers and 53 cottagers. The residents were parish in Kieferstädtel.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 143 eligible voters voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 428 for membership in Poland. Althammer remained with the German Empire after the division of Upper Silesia . Until 1945 the place was in the district of Tost-Gleiwitz .

In 1945 the previously German town came under Polish administration and was then attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed the Polish Trachy . In 1950 the place came to the Katowice Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Gliwicki and the new Silesian Voivodeship. On October 10, 2013, the place was also given the official German place name Althammer .

Sights and buildings

Figure of St. Roch, covered with a wooden structure

education

A kindergarten

Web links

Site of the place

Individual evidence

^ Toni Pierenkemper: Industrial History of Upper Silesia in the 19th Century , 1992
^ Johann Ernst Tramp: Additions to the Description of Silesia, Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
^ Geographical-statistical handbook on Silesia and the county of Glatz, Volume 2 , 1818
↑ Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

[1] Toni Pierenkemper: Industrial History of Upper Silesia in the 19th Century , 1992

[2] Johann Ernst Tramp: Additions to the Description of Silesia, Volume 2 , Brieg 1783

[3] Geographical-statistical handbook on Silesia and the county of Glatz, Volume 2 , 1818

[Triest-4] Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865

[5] Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )