Leschnitz community

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Leschnitz
Gmina Leśnica municipality
Coat of arms of Gmina Leśnica
Municipality of Leschnitz Gmina Leśnica (Poland)
Leschnitz Gmina Leśnica municipality
Leschnitz
Gmina Leśnica municipality
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Strzelecki
Geographic location : 50 ° 26 '  N , 18 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '0 "  N , 18 ° 11' 0"  E
Height : 205 m npm
Residents : s. Gmina
Postal code : 47-150
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : EAST
Economy and Transport
Street : A4 Opole - Katowice
Next international airport : Katowice
Gmina
Gminatype: Urban-and-rural parish
Surface: 94.63 km²
Residents: 7569
(June 30, 2019)
Population density : 80 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 1611043
Administration (as of 2011)
Mayor : Łukasz Stefan Jastrzembski
Address: ul. 1 Maja 9
47-150 Leśnica
Website : www.lesnica.pl



The municipality Leschnitz ( Polish Gmina Leśnica [ lɛɕˈɲiʦa ]) is a town-and-country municipality in the powiat Strzelecki of the Opole Voivodeship in Poland . Its seat is the country town of the same name with around 2700 inhabitants.

Since 2006 the community has been officially bilingual (Polish and German).

geography

The municipality is located 25 kilometers southeast of Opole (Opole) and 60 kilometers northwest of Katowice (Kattowitz) . The region belongs to Upper Silesia .

The city itself is located on the southeast slope of St. Annaberg (Góra Świętej Anny) on the Padole brook. In 1988, a 5775 hectare landscape park was built around the mountain. There is a geological nature reserve of 2.68 hectares in the municipality . This old quarry of limestone and basalt reminds old to 5 million years volcanism .

history

As a result of World War II , Leschnitz came to Poland. A minority of German origin was able to survive in the region. According to the Polish census of 2002, 28.17% of the community population belong to the German minority , another 7.43% describe themselves as " Silesians ". The mayor and 12 of 15 members of the Leschnitz City and Municipal Council were elected in the local elections in 2010 from the electoral list of the German minority.

The municipality approved German as an auxiliary language in 2006 and introduced bilingual place names in 2008.

In the 2018 local elections, Mayor Łukasz Jastrzembski was re-elected by the election committee for the German minority with 76.6% of the vote. Only one candidate ran for the municipal council in each of the 15 single-person constituencies, so that there was nowhere a controversial election. A representative of the German minority came into play in 13 constituencies, while Polish candidates from the other two constituencies moved into the municipal council.

Partnerships

structure

In addition to the city of Leschnitz, the following villages belong to the city-and-country municipality:

Attractions

One of the sights of the municipality is the pilgrimage site of St. Annaberg (Góra Świętej Anny).

traffic

The community has a stop in Raschowa / Raszowa on the Kędzierzyn-Koźle-Opole railway line , where the Zdzieszowice station was named Leschnitz from 1867 to 1936 and Leschnitz / Odertal (Oberschles.) Until 1945 . Leschnitz is located on the former Kędzierzyn-Koźle – Kluczbork railway line . Passenger traffic in this section was stopped on June 23, 2000.

literature

  • Albert Lipnicki (Ed.): Osiem wieków ziemi leśnickiej. Wroclaw 2002.

Web links

Commons : Leschnitz  - 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. ↑ See Polish Main Statistical Office (GUS) ( Memento from December 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Result on the website of the Election Commission, accessed on July 22, 2020.
  4. ^ Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 .