Tricity of Gleiwitz-Hindenburg-Beuthen

The three-city unit Gleiwitz-Hindenburg-Beuthen was a planned merger of the cities of Gleiwitz , Hindenburg OS and Beuthen OS against the background of the connection of the remaining Upper Silesian industrial area to Poland .

After the referendum in Upper Silesia in 1921, East Upper Silesia was assigned to Poland in 1922 . The German Reich thus lost most of its Upper Silesian industrial area. The cities of Gleiwitz and Beuthen and the district of Hindenburg remained with the Reich, from which the city of the same name emerged shortly afterwards. Now lying on the border of the empire, the cities gained importance for industry. In the following years, many industrial companies moved from what was now the Polish East Upper Silesia to the German West Upper Silesia. In addition, many Silesians left their homeland in East Upper Silesia, so that there was a housing shortage in the German border area.

Along with the plan for urban unity, new cities should also be created in the surrounding districts and additional cities should be expanded.

literature

• Karl Schabik, Albert Stütz, Moritz Wolf (eds.): Dreistädteeinheit Beuthen, Gleiwitz, Hindenburg, district of Beuthen. (= New City Architecture .) Friedrich Ernst Hübsch Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1929. [1]