Birawa municipality

Birawa ; Gmina Bierawa Parish
	Birawa ; Gmina Bierawa Parish
	Birawa ; Gmina Bierawa Parish
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Kędzierzyn-Koźle
Area :	12.70 km²
Geographic location :	50 ° 17 ' N , 18 ° 14' E Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '3 " N , 18 ° 14' 25" E
Height :	170 m npm
Residents :	1500
Postal code :	47-240
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OK
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 425 Birawa– Kuźnia Raciborska
Rail route :	Kędzierzyn-Koźle – Racibórz
Next international airport :	Katowice
Gmina
Gminatype:	Rural community
Gmina structure:	12 school offices
Surface:	119.24 km²
Residents:	7910 ; (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density :	66 inhabitants / km²
Community number ( GUS ):	1603022
Administration (as of 2018)
Community leader :	Krzysztof Ficoń
Address:	ul. Wojska Polskiego 12 ; 47-240 Bierawa
Website :	www.bierawa.pl
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The municipality Birawa (Polish Gmina Bierawa ) is a rural municipality in the powiat Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski (Kandrzin-Cosel district) in the Opole Voivodeship . The parish seat is Birawa (Bierawa). The community is bilingual, Polish and German.

geography

The municipality has an area of 119.24 km², of which 37% are areas for agriculture and infrastructure and 63% are forest areas.

Localities

In the municipality are:

Places with Schulzenamt:

Alt Cosel (Stare Koźle)
Birawa (Bierawa)
Brzezetz (Brzeźce; approx. 1932–1945 birch trees)
Oderwalde (Dziergowice)
Goschütz (Goszyce; 1936–1945 Meisenbusch)
Jakobswalde (Kotlarnia)
Little Old Hammer (Stara Kuźnia)
Korzonek (Korzonek; 1936–1945: ponds)
Libischau (Lubieszów; 1936–1945: Liebenbach)
Ortowitz (Ortowice; 1936–1945: Rehwalde)
Sackenhoym (Grabówka)
Solarnia (Solarnia)

population

In addition to the Polish population, people (24.6%) stated German nationality (ethnicity) in the 2002 2010 census. In the 2011 census, the percentage of Germans was 17.6% or 1369 people.

politics

Community leader

The head of the municipal administration is the municipality leader . Since 2018, this has been Ryszard Gołębowski, who did not run for the regular election in October 2018. Instead, Krzysztof Ficoń was elected with 85.4% of the vote in the first ballot without any opponents.

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members and is directly elected in single-person constituencies. The 2018 municipal council election led to the following result:

Election Committee for the Development of Bierawa Municipality 53.9% of the vote, 9 seats
Election Committee “Together for the Bierawa Municipality” 34.2% of the vote, 2 seats
Election committee German minority 12.0% of the votes, 4 seats

Web links

Community website

Individual evidence

↑ population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
↑ CIS
↑ Mniejszości według województw, powiatów i gmin w 2002 r., CIS
↑ Gminy, w których udział mniejszości narodowych, etnicznych lub społeczności posługującej się językiem kaszubskim wsród ogółu mieszkańców stanowił w 2011 roku co najmniej 10%
^ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 7, 2020.
^ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 7, 2020.

[L_ludnosc_stan_struktura_30-06-2019-1] population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .

[2] CIS

[3] Mniejszości według województw, powiatów i gmin w 2002 r., CIS

[4] Gminy, w których udział mniejszości narodowych, etnicznych lub społeczności posługującej się językiem kaszubskim wsród ogółu mieszkańców stanowił w 2011 roku co najmniej 10%

[5] Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 7, 2020.

[6] Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 7, 2020.