Euroregion Cieszyn Silesia
The euro region Cieszyn Silesia ( Polish Euro Region Śląsk Cieszyński , Czech Euro-region Těšín Silesia ) is a well-founded on 22 April 1998 euro area in the northeastern border region between the Czech Republic and Poland on the river Olsa around the Twin Cities Český Těšín (Czech) and Cieszyn (Polish) called Cieszyn Silesia .
The area has an area of 1741.34 km² (of which 1618 km² within the historical landscape) and in 2009 658,224 inhabitants, of which 351,289 in the Czech Republic and 306,935 in Poland. The largest cities are Jastrzębie Zdrój ( Bad Königsdorff-Jastrzemb ) on the Polish side and Havířov on the Czech side .
It consists largely of the historical landscape of Teschen Silesia (see also Duchy of Teschen ), the part in the Czech Republic was also called the Olsa area ; without Bielsko-Biała and the municipality Czechowice-Dziedzice in Poland and without Okres Ostrava-město , Frýdek-Místek and a few dozen villages east of Ostravice , which belong to the Euroregion Beskydy and Euroregion Silesia . The Beskydy Euroregion borders on the Cieszyn Silesia region in the west, south and east, while the Silesia Euroregion is in the northwest. The town of Jastrzębie Zdrój and the municipality of Godów (from 2003), in addition to the historical landscape, in the former Kingdom of Prussia , which comprise a total of 12.8% of the area of the Polish part of the Euroregion, but more than 1/3 of the residents, are also included. Outside the Euroregion remained 29% of the territory of the historical landscape and over 30% of the population.
In 2011, Poles made up the absolute majority in the Polish part of the Euroregion. The information on the Silesian nationality in the census counted a total of 2864, 1000 of them in Jastrzębie-Zdrój, 928 in the Godów municipality and 936 within historical Cieszyn Silesia. The second largest minority were 431 Germans. In total, there was 1.2% of non-Polish responses in the Polish part, with 7.4% in the Godów municipality. On the Czech side the largest minority is Polish, in 2001 from 2.2% in Hrčava to 42.8% in Hrádek nad Olší , in 30 municipalities over 10%, a total of 37,117 in the Karviná (7.02%) and the districts total Frýdek-Místek (7.62%). In the northern part around Karviná , on the other hand, there were more Slovaks (15,948 or 5.88% in total in Okres Karviná) and Moravians (3591 or 1.32% in Okres Karviná) than Poles and Silesians (1963 or 0.72%). in Okres Karviná). In both districts, 667 residents declared themselves German. In general, the Czech part is much more culturally heterogeneous, although over 80% were Czech, there are also visible minorities of the Roma , Vietnamese and also many more people who did not state any nationality (from 12.9% in Milikov to 28.9% in Doubrava).
Administrative structure
16 municipalities in Poland: Powiat Cieszyński (12 municipalities), 2 municipalities in Powiat Bielski ( Jasienica and Jaworze ), the independent city of Jastrzębie Zdrój and the municipality of Godów in Powiat Wodzisławski .
43 municipalities in the Czech Republic, of which 16 (17) in karviná district ( albrechtice , Bohumín , Český Těšín , Chotěbuz , Dětmarovice , dolní lutyně , doubrava , Havířov, Horni Suchá , Karviná , Orlová , petrovice u karviné , Petřvald , Rychvald , Stonava , Těrlicko ) and 27 (out of 72) in frýdek-místek district ( Bocanovice , Bukovec u Jablunkova , bystřice , dolní lomná , Dolni Tosanovice , Hnojník , horní lomná , horní tošanovice , Hrádek nad Olší , Hrčava , Jablunkov , komorní lhotka , Košařiska , Milíkov , Mosty u Jablunkova , Návsí , Nýdek , Písečná u Jablunkova , Písek , Řeka , Ropice , smilovice , Střítež , Třanovice , Třinec , Vělopolí , Vendryně ).
literature
- Janusz Józef Węc (Ed.): Wpływ integracji europejskiej na przemiany kulturowe i rozwój społeczno-gospodarczy Euroregionu "Śląsk Cieszyński" . Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków – Bielsko-Biała 2012, ISBN 978-83-7638-293-7 (Polish, Czech).
Web pages
- Śląsk Cieszyński Euroregion (en, pl, cs)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wpływ integracji ..., 2012, p. 39
- ↑ English description
- ^ Map of the Euroregions in the Polish-Czech border area
- ↑ Municipalities where there were more Moravians than Silesians (yellow)
- ↑ Wpływ integracji ..., 2012, pp. 88–93
- ↑ Spis powszechny 2011 (Polish)
