Groß Döbern municipality

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Groß Döbern municipality
Gmina Dobrzeń Wielki
Coat of arms of the community of Groß Döbern
Groß Döbern Gmina Dobrzeń Wielki (Poland)
Groß Döbern municipality Gmina Dobrzeń Wielki
Groß Döbern municipality
Gmina Dobrzeń Wielki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Opolski
Geographic location : 50 ° 46 '  N , 17 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '0 "  N , 17 ° 51' 0"  E
Height : 144 m npm
Residents : see Gmina
Postal code : 46-081
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OPO
Economy and Transport
Street : OpoleBrzeg
Next international airport : Wroclaw
Gmina
Gminatype: Rural community
Gmina structure: 4 localities
4 school offices
Surface: 63.98 km²
Residents: 9457
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 148 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 1609032
administration
Wójt : Piotr Szlapa
Address:
ul.Namysłowska 44 46-081 Dobrzeń Wielki
Website : www.dobrzenwielki.pl



The community Groß Döbern ( Polish Gmina Dobrzeń Wielki ) is a rural community in the Powiat Opolski of the Opole Voivodeship in Poland . Its seat is the village of the same name with around 4500 inhabitants.

The municipality has been officially bilingual (Polish and German) since 2009 and has around 9700 inhabitants (2017).

geography

The municipality borders on the voivodeship capital Opole (Opole) in the south and is located in Upper Silesia . Wroclaw is about 60 km away. The southern border of the municipality is partly formed by the Oder .

history

The municipality came to the Opole Voivodeship in 1950, which changed its layout several times until 1999.

On April 22, 2009, German was introduced as a second language. After German place names became official on December 1, 2009, the municipality had bilingual place name signs put up in July 2010.

As of January 1, 2017, five places were incorporated into the city of Opole. As a result, the community lost the largest business operations. Its population fell from 14,596 to 9,705 at the turn of the year.

2002 census

The population of Groß Döbern by nationality according to the last Polish census in 2002.

Nationalities in Groß Döbern
nationality number proportion of
Polish 8262 58.01%
German 2970 20.85%
" Silesian " 1261 8.85%
no information 1718 12.06%

politics

Community leader

The head of the municipal administration is the municipality leader. So far this has been Henry Wróbel from the German minority. The regular election in October 2018 led to the following result.

  • Piotr Szlapa (Election Committee “The Future of the Community - A Common Cause”) 48.5% of the votes
  • Henryk Wróbel ( German Minority Election Committee ) 27.6% of the vote
  • Franciszek Sośnik (Election Committee Franciszek Sośnik) 23.9% of the vote

In the runoff election that was necessary, Szlapa was able to prevail clearly against the previous incumbent Wróbel with 68.3% of the votes.

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 “The future of the community - a common cause” 45.2% of the votes, 11 seats
  • Election committee German minority 17.9% of the votes, 3 seats
  • Election Committee Franciszek Sośnik 16.1% of the vote, 1 seat
  • Alternative election committee 9.5% of the vote, no seat
  • Election committee “Our community” 5.5% of the vote, no seat
  • Election committee “Time for changes in our community” 3.7% of the vote, no seat
  • Remaining 1.9% of the vote, no seat

Community partnerships

Since the 1990s, Groß Döbern has maintained community partnerships with:

structure

The rural community (gmina wiejska) Groß Döbern includes four villages with school authorities (sołectwa):

The towns of Borrek (Borki), Czarnowanz (Czarnowąsy), Finkenstein (Brzezie), Horst (Świerkle) and Krzanowitz (Krzanowice) have been part of Opole since January 2017.

traffic

The voivodship road 454 leads from Namysłów via Groß Döbern to Opole. From her the provincial road branches off 457 after Brzeg (Brieg) leads.

Web links

Commons : Community of Groß Döbern  - Collection of images, 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: Welcome to Gross Döbern
  3. Cf. Polish Main Statistical Office (GUS) (xls) ( Memento from December 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on July 30, 2020.
  5. Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on July 30, 2020.
  6. ^ Sejm: Ordinance of January 1, 2017