Boguszów-Gorce
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lower Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Wałbrzych | ||
| Area : | 27.01 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 46 ′ N , 16 ° 12 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 520-750 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 15,368 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Postal code : | 58-370 to 58-372 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 74 | ||
| License plate : | DBA (early DB) | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Wałbrzych - Kamienna Góra | ||
| Rail route : | Wałbrzych Szczawienko – Meziměstí | ||
| Next international airport : | Wroclaw | ||
| Gmina | |||
| Gminatype: | Borough | ||
| Surface: | 27.01 km² | ||
| Residents: | 15,368 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Population density : | 569 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Community number ( GUS ): | 0221011 | ||
| Administration (as of 2007) | |||
| Mayor : | Waldemar Kujawa | ||
| Address: | pl. Odrodzenia 1 58-370 Boguszów-Gorce |
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| Website : | www.boguszow-gorce.pl | ||
Boguszów-Gorce ( German Gottesberg-Rothenbach ) is a town in the Powiat Wałbrzyski ( Waldenburg District ) in the Polish Voivodeship of Lower Silesia , which has been elevated to a town since 1973 . It is the seat of the municipality of the same name .
Geographical location
The city is located in Lower Silesia in the east of the Waldenburger Bergland , eight kilometers southwest of Wałbrzych ( Waldenburg ) at an altitude of 525–622 meters above sea level. To the north is the 850 meter high Sattelwald .
Neighboring towns are Lubomin ( Lieber village ) in the north, Konradów ( Konrad Thal ) and Wałbrzych ( Waldenburg ) to the northeast, Zagórze Śląskie ( Zagórze Śląskie ) to the east, Jedlina-Zdrój ( Bad Charlottenbrunn ) to the southeast, Rybnica Leśna ( Reimswaldau ) and UNISŁAW ŚLĄSKI ( Long Waltersdorf ) in the southeast, Mieroszów ( Friedland ) in the south, Krzeszów ( Grüssau ) and Grzędy ( Konradswaldau ) in the southwest and Czarny Bór ( Schwarzwaldau ) and Kamienna Góra ( Landeshut ) in the west.
history
The twin town of Boguszów-Gorce was created in 1973 by amalgamating the previously independent town of Boguszów ( Gottesberg ) and the town-like town of Gorce ( Rothenbach ), which had also been independent until then .
Gottesberg received city rights from the Bohemian King Wladislaw II in 1499 .
Around 1905 Gottesberg had a Protestant, a Catholic and an Old Catholic church, coal mining , porphyry quarries, a beer brewery and malt production. A Bismarck tower stood on the nearby porphyry cone Bismarckhöhe . Around the same time, Rothenbach had hard coal mining, coke distilleries and chemical factories for the extraction of hard coal products. In Gottesberg there was a district court, a secondary school and a mining vocational school around 1925 .
In 1945, the city of God Mountain and the resort Rothenbach to belong district Waldenburg in the district Breslau the Prussian province of Lower Silesia of the German Reich .
After the end of the Second World War , the two villages of Gottesberg and Rothenbach, like almost all of Silesia, were placed under Polish administration by the Soviet occupying forces . Gottesberg received the Polish name Boguszów and the large settlement Rothenbach the name Gorce . The German population was subsequently expelled by the local Polish administrative authority . Some of the residents who were newly settled in the two villages came from areas east of the Curzon Line that fell to the Soviet Union .
Central Station
Westbahnhof
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From 1974 to 1998 Boguszów-Gorce was part of the Wałbrzych Voivodeship . Hard coal was mined in the Boguszów-Gorce area until the early 1990s. In 2012 the population was 16,494.
Population development
- in Gottesberg
| year | Residents | Remarks |
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| 1875 | 6,445 | |
| 1880 | 6,345 | |
| 1890 | 7,201 | thereof 4,698 Evangelicals, 2,460 Catholics and 25 Jews |
| 1905 | 8,966 | mostly evangelicals |
| 1925 | 10,758 | of which 6,412 Protestants, 3,574 Catholics, 178 other Christians, 27 Jews |
| 1933 | 12,079 | of which 7,202 Protestants, 3,631 Catholics, 247 other Christians, 14 Jews |
| 1939 | 11,011 | of which 6,592 Protestants, 3,159 Catholics, 356 other Christians, three Jews |
- in Rothenbach
| year | Residents | Remarks |
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| 1905 | 4,268 | |
| 1933 | 5,074 | |
| 1939 | 4,535 |
traffic
The city is located on the 367 Voivodeship Road from Wałbrzych to Kamienna Góra and has two stops on the Wałbrzych – Meziměstí railway line .
Community structure
The municipality of Goguszów-Gorce is made up of the city districts
as well as the districts
- Kuźnice Świdnickie ( Fellhammer ) and
- Stary Lesieniec ( old casual )
Town twinning
sons and daughters of the town
- Antoni Gralak (* 1955), rock and jazz trumpeter, composer and music producer
Web links
- Official website of the city
- Historical and current images as well as the geographical location of Rothenbach
- Historical and current images as well as the geographical location of Fellhammer train station
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 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 .
- ↑ a b c d Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon . 6th edition, Volume 8, Leipzig / Vienna 1907, p. 174.
- ↑ a b Der Große Brockhaus , 15th edition, Volume 17, Leipzig 1930, p. 530.
- ↑ a b Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon . 6th edition, Volume 17, Leipzig / Vienna 1909, p. 180.
- ↑ a b c d e f Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. waldenburg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. waldenburg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
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