Brzeźnica (Rudnik)

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Brzeźnica
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Brzeźnica (Poland)
Brzeźnica
Brzeźnica
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Silesia
Powiat : Raciborski
Gmina : Rudnik
Area : 7.15  km²
Geographic location : 50 ° 9 '  N , 18 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '52 "  N , 18 ° 13' 0"  E
Residents : 561 (December 31, 2010)
Postal code : 47-411
Telephone code : (+48) 32
License plate : SRC
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Katowice



Brzeźnica ( German Bresnitz , also Brzesnitz ) is a village in the rural community of Rudnik in the Raciborski powiat in the Polish Silesian Voivodeship .

Brzeźnica is six km from Racibórz and 80 km from the voivodeship capital Katowice . In 1939 the place had 999 inhabitants, in 2011 there were 561 in Brzeźnica.

history

The name comes from Slavic and means birch forest. In 1645 a small castle was built on a hill. After the referendum in Upper Silesia in 1921, the village of Bresnitz remained under the Weimar Republic . In 1936, Bresnitz was renamed Eichendorffmühl . In 1945 the village of Brzeźnica came to the People's Republic of Poland and the castle was destroyed by Red Army soldiers.

Personalities

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Web links

Commons : Brzeźnica  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. a b Website of the Rudnik municipality (BIP), Brzeźnica  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 6, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / bip.gmina-rudnik.pl  
  2. a b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district Ratibor (Polish Racibórz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).