Dąb (Katowice)

Dąb
	Dąb
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
District of:	Katowice
Area :	1.90  km²
Geographic location :	50 ° 16 '  N , 19 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 16 '26 "  N , 18 ° 59' 57"  E
Residents :	8200 (2003)
Telephone code :	(+48) 32
License plate :	SK
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

Dąb (German Domb ) is the oldest part of today's city of Katowice . It is located three kilometers southwest of the center of Katowice.

history

Street train

The first written mention of Domb comes from March 19, 1299 by the Bytom Duke Casimir II. In 1480 it was mentioned by the Polish historian Jan Długosz in his work "Księga uposażeń". After him, Duke Casimir II donated the village of Domb to the Bożogrobców Monastery ( Holy Sepulcher Monastery ) in Miechów around 1300 as a donation for the Holy Spirit Hospital in Bytom . The village remained in the hands of a monastery until the 19th century.

In 1780 hard coal was discovered in the village and the first coal mine Queen Hedwig was founded. In 1823 the Scottish engineer John Baildon (1772–1846) founded an ironworks in Domb .

At the beginning of the 20th century Domb had a Catholic church, a mill, the Waterloo coal mine, the Baildonhütte, and the place belonged to the district of Katowice in the Prussian administrative district of Opole . In 1910, 13,666 people lived in Domb, of whom 10,318 spoke Silesian, 26 Polish and 3,237 German.

In the first Silesian uprising in 1919 small skirmishes took place in Domb, in the second in 1920 heavy fighting, in the third in 1921 one of the insurgents' bases was located there. They marched from Domb to Katowice on May 3, 1921.

On July 15, 1924 Dąb was incorporated together with Bogucice , Zawodzie , Załęże , Ligota and Brynów as a district in the city of Katowice.

Population development

year	Residents	Remarks
1890	4.138
1900	8,243
1905	10,839
1910	13,666

Web links

Commons : Dąb (Katowice)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

1. ↑ Cf. katowice.eu ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. down. on October 4, 2009 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon . 6th edition, Volume 5, Leipzig / Vienna 1906, p. 97.
3. ^ ^{A b c} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. sch_kattowitz.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).