Brzeźnica (Rudnik)
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Basic data | ||
State : | Poland | |
Voivodeship : | Silesia | |
Powiat : | Raciborski | |
Gmina : | Rudnik | |
Area : | 7.15 km² | |
Geographic location : | 50 ° 9 ' N , 18 ° 13' 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
- Bruno Kosak (1936–2019), Upper Silesian politician and member of the Sejm
- Emanuel von Schimonsky (1752–1832), Prince-Bishop of Breslau.
See also
Web links
Commons : Brzeźnica - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Footnotes
- ↑ a b Website of the Rudnik municipality (BIP), Brzeźnica ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 6, 2011
- ↑ 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).