Colonnowska municipality

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Colonnowska
Gmina Kolonowskie municipality
Coat of arms of Gmina Kolonowskie
Colonnowska Gmina Kolonowskie Municipality (Poland)
Colonnowska Gmina Kolonowskie municipality
Colonnowska
Gmina Kolonowskie municipality
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Strzelecki
Geographic location : 50 ° 39 ′  N , 18 ° 23 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  N , 18 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  E
Residents : s. local community
Postal code : 46-057, 46-058, 47-110
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : EAST
Economy and Transport
Street : Zawadzkie - Ozimek
Rail route : Zawadzkie – Opole
Next international airport : Katowice
Gmina
Gminatype: Urban-and-rural parish
Gmina structure: 4 localities
Surface: 83.61 km²
Residents: 5895
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 71 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 1611033
Administration (as of 2006)
Mayor : Norbert Koston
Address: ul. Czerwionki 39
47-110 Kolonowskie
Website : www.kolonowskie.pl



The municipality Colonnowska ( Polish Gmina Kolonowskie ) is an urban-and-rural municipality in the powiat Strzelecki of the Opole Voivodeship in Poland . Its seat is the city ​​of the same name with about 3300 inhabitants

geography

The community is in Upper Silesia . The border of the Silesian Voivodeship is two kilometers away. Its main town is around 30 kilometers east of Opole (Opole) and 65 kilometers northwest of Katowice (Kattowitz) . The Malapane River is one of the waters .

history

From 1945 to 1950 the parish seat was in the village of Staniszcze Wielkie (Groß Stanisch) and the rural parish was called Gmina Staniszcze Wielkie . In 1950 it was relocated to today's capital and the region became part of the Opole Voivodeship. This repeatedly changed its layout. In 1973 Fosowskie (Vossowska) was incorporated. Kolonowskie received city ​​rights and the municipality its current status. In 1975 bis the powiate were dissolved and the municipality came to the Opole Voivodeship until 1998 (1975) . The Powiat Strzelecki was re-established in 1999.

On September 22, 2006, German was introduced as the second official language in the municipality. On November 14, 2008, the places and communities were given official German names. Bilingual place-name signs were put up in January 2011.

A community partnership with Wolfsgraben has existed since 2006 . Colonnowska joined the Lower Austrian Climate Alliance Lower Austria and received a corresponding place-name sign in Polish with the approval of the Polish Foreign Office.

politics

mayor

The administration is headed by a mayor . Since 2006 this has been Norbert Koston from the German Minority Election Committee . The 2018 election led to the following result:

Thus Żyłka missed the absolute majority in the first ballot by only three votes (1093 votes against 1095 for Koston and Bednorz together). In the second ballot, the incumbent Koston managed to prevail with 51.2% of the vote against 48.8% for Żyłka and defend his office.

Municipal council

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

  • Electoral committee our municipality Kolonowskie 45.7% of the vote, 11 seats
  • Election committee German minority 37.3% of the votes, 4 seats
  • Election committee of residents 16.2% of the vote, no seat
  • Remaining 0.8% of the votes, no seat

City and community partnerships

structure

The town-and-country municipality Colonnowska includes three villages in addition to the city that gives it its name:

Two other localities are the settlements or hamlets Granica and Magda.

traffic

The main town is on the Tarnowskie Góry – Opole railway line , and in the Vossowska / Fosowskie district there is a junction station where the Kielce – Fosowskie railway meets the Opole railway line. In the past, the station was also served by Kleinbahn AG Guttentag – Vosswalde on the Kędzierzyn-Koźle – Kluczbork line.

Web links

Commons : Municipality of Colonnowska  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  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. NTO.pl: dwujęzyczne tablice Stanely w Kolonowskiem .
  3. gemeinde-wolfsgraben.at: Partnergemeinde Kolonowskie (accessed on July 24, 2019)
  4. ^ Result on the website of the Election Commission, accessed on July 21, 2020.
  5. ^ Result on the website of the Election Commission, accessed on July 21, 2020.