Brzezinka (Gliwice)

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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Silesia
Powiat : District-free city
District of: Gliwice
Geographic location : 50 ° 20 '  N , 18 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 19 '32 "  N , 18 ° 34' 29"  E
Residents :
License plate : SG



Brzezinka (German: Brzezinka , 1935–1945: Birkenau OS ) is a western district of Gliwice (Gleiwitz) in Poland .

geography

The place is located about eight kilometers northwest of the city center of Gliwice and about five kilometers from the nearest railway station in Łabędy ( Laband ). The A4 Autostrada route runs past the western periphery of Brzezinka .

history

Settlement from the 1930s
Hedwig Church

The place originated in the 14th century at the latest and was first mentioned in a document in 1376. From 1550 to 1719 the village and the manor were owned by the von Zmeskal family . The Gliwice Museum in the Piast Castle still shows the large grave tablet of Zuzanna Zmeskalowa from 1644 with a Polish inscription from the church in Brzezinka .

From 1719 to 1725 the village and estate belonged to Christoph Heinrich Pesta , then his wife inherited it, who sold both to Georg Josef and Feliziana von Gusnar in 1731 . In 1746, Brzezinka became the property of the Gellari siblings . a. from 1752 to 1774 the multiple landowners Georg Gotthard von Holly and Ponientzietz , march commissioner of the district of Lublinitz and 1786 also district deputy of the district of Tost , and his son Traugott von Holly and Ponientzietz (1751-1828), who sold almost all of his estates and villages.

The place was mentioned in 1783 in the book Beytrage describing Silesia as Brzezinke , was in the Tost district of the Principality of Opole and had 216 residents, 28 farmers, 13 gardeners, six cottagers and two farms, a Catholic church and a school. In 1785 the village and estate belonged to Heinrich von Bünau , then to the officer Felix Friedrich von Stümer (1789), who was raised to the Prussian nobility in 1770 , Gottlieb von Strzidowsky (1795) and finally a Baron von Chambres (1799). In 1818 the place was mentioned as Brzezinka . In 1865 Brzezinka consisted of a village and a manor. The village had 20 farms, four half-farmers, 15 gardeners and 14 cottagers. The Catholic school had 130 students from Brzezinka and Ellguth von Gröling.

In 1908 a pheasantry and a forester's house belonged to the manor. At that time there was a Catholic church, a district court and a post office in the village . At that time the community belonged to the district of Schloss Kieferstädtel . On December 1, 1910, 1,016 people lived in Brzezinka in the village and 91 on the manor, a total of 1,107 people. In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 152 people eligible to vote locally voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 452 for membership in Poland. Brzezinka remained with the German Empire after the division of Upper Silesia . In 1933 the community in the Tost-Gleiwitz district had 1,167 inhabitants, six years later the number was already 2,406. In 1935 the place was renamed Birkenau in the course of a wave of renaming of the place during the Nazi era . From 1935 the district court in Gleiwitz was responsible for Brzezinka. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Tost-Gleiwitz.

In 1945 the formerly German town came under Polish administration and was then attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed the Polish Brzezinka . In 1950 the place came to the Katowice Voivodeship . In 1975 Brzezinka was incorporated into Gliwice by the dissolved powiat Gliwicki . In 1999 the place became part of the new Silesian Voivodeship.

Buildings and sights

economy

In the 19th century there were in Brzezinka the coal -Bergwerk "Wilhelm German Emperor" that the jurisdiction of the Mining Office District Breslau was. The mine belonged to the Princes Hohenlohe-Oehringen and became part of the "Hohenlohe-Werke Aktiengesellschaft" founded in 1905. Since 1996, the Katowicka Specjalna Strefa Ekonomiczna special economic zone has been set up east of the district .

Web links

Commons : Brzezinka (Gliwice)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Website of the museum in Gliwice ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. The father of Josepha by Holly. Retrieved January 6, 2020 .
  3. ^ Johann Ernst Tramp: Additions to the Description of Silesia, Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
  4. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Page 238, Volume 131 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN  0435-2408
  5. ^ Geographical-statistical handbook on Silesia and the county of Glatz, Volume 2 , 1818
  6. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
  7. Schlesisches Ortschaftsverzeichnis , Verlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Breslau 1908
  8. ^ Directory of the 1871 listed Schrotholzkirchen in Upper Silesia
  9. Silesian local directory
  10. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia in 1921: Literature , table in digital form
  11. ^ Meyers Orts- und Verkehrslexikon des Deutschen Reiches , Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1935