Chorzów Stary

Chorzów Stary
	Chorzów Stary
	Chorzów Stary
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
District of:	Chorzów
Geographic location :	50 ° 18 ' N , 18 ° 59' E Coordinates: 50 ° 18 '23 " N , 18 ° 58' 31" E
Height :	317 m npm
Residents :
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Chorzów Stary (German Chorzow ) is a district of Chorzów ( Königshütte ) in the Silesian Voivodeship , Poland .

history

church

Chorzow was first mentioned in a document in 1257. The Maria Magdalena Church was completed in 1892.

In the referendum on March 20, 1921, 3,242 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 2980 for Poland.

In 1922 Chorzów came to Poland. On May 16, 1934, Chorzów was incorporated into the town of Królewska Huta (Polish translation of "Königshütte") , which in turn took over the original Slavic name Chorzów.

Sons and daughters of the place

Kazimierz Smoleń (1920–2012), prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp and later head of the Auschwitz concentration camp memorial

Web links

Website about Chorzow

Footnotes

^ Johann Heyne: Documented history of the diocese and bishopric of Breslau. From documents, files, older chroniclers and more recent historians, Vol. 1 . Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1969, p. 1011 (reprint of the Breslau 1860 edition).

[1] Johann Heyne: Documented history of the diocese and bishopric of Breslau. From documents, files, older chroniclers and more recent historians, Vol. 1 . Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1969, p. 1011 (reprint of the Breslau 1860 edition).