Municipality of Oberglogau

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Municipality of Oberglogau
Gmina Głogówek
Coat of arms of Głogówek
Municipality of Oberglogau Gmina Głogówek (Poland)
Municipality of Oberglogau Gmina Głogówek

Gmina Głogówek municipality of Upper Logov
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Prudnicki
Geographic location : 50 ° 22 ′  N , 17 ° 52 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  N , 17 ° 52 ′ 0 ″  E
Residents : s. local community
Postal code : 48-250
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OPR
Economy and Transport
Street : Bytom - Prudnik
Rail route : Kędzierzyn-Koźle-Nysa
Next international airport : Katowice Airport
Gmina
Gminatype: Urban-and-rural parish
Gmina structure: 23 localities
25 school offices
Surface: 170.06 km²
Residents: 13,258
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 78 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 1610023
Administration (as of 2018)
Mayor : Piotr Bujak
Address: Rynek 1
48-250 Głogówek
Website : www.glogowek.pl



The municipality of Oberglogau ( Polish Gmina Głogówek [ gwɔ'guvɛk ]) is an urban and rural municipality in the powiat Prudnicki of the Opole Voivodeship in Poland . Its seat is the city of Oberglogau with about 5500 inhabitants.

The community has been officially bilingual (Polish and German) since 2009.

geography

The municipality is located in Upper Silesia , 30 kilometers south of Opole (Opole) and borders in parts on the Czech Republic .

history

In March 1921, a referendum decided whether Upper Silesia would continue to belong to the state. In Oberglogau, 95.9 percent of the votes were cast in favor of remaining with Germany and the entire district remained in the Weimar Republic . After the capture by the Red Army , the name Głogówek was introduced in 1945 . A German minority was able to survive in town and community. In the 2002 census, 24.83 percent of the community population identified themselves as Germans and 1.45 percent as Silesians .

The municipality has been officially bilingual since 2009, on December 1, 2009 it introduced bilingual place names except for the four places Kazimierz (Kasimir), Racławice Śląskie (German Rasselwitz), Szonów (Schönau) and Tomice (Thomnitz) . In these places, bilingual place-name signs were mostly rejected.

population

The population of the municipality of Oberglogau by nationality according to the last Polish census in 2002:

Nationalities in the municipality of Oberglogau
nationality number Share
in percent
Polish 10,451 69.1
German 3,757 24.8
Silesian 219 1.4
no information 679 4.4

politics

mayor

The mayor is at the head of the city administration . So far this has been Andrzej Kałamarz. The regular election in October 2018 brought the following result:

  • Andrzej Kałamarz (Independent Electoral Committee “Common”) 37.0% of the vote
  • Piotr Bujak (Election Committee “Voters' Association for Gmina Głogówek”) 27.0% of the votes
  • Marek Pelka (Election Committee “Gmina Głogówek - Common Solutions”) 26.6% of the vote

In the run-off election that was necessary, Bujak, who was still 32 votes behind in the first ballot, prevailed against the previous incumbent Kałamarz with 59.6% of the votes and became the new mayor.

City council

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

  • Independent electoral committee “Together” 37.1% of the vote, 7 seats
  • Electoral Committee “Voters' Association for Gmina Głogówek” 27.1% of the votes, 2 seats
  • Election Committee “Gmina Głogówek - Common Solutions” 26.0% of the votes, 4 seats
  • Election committee German minority 8.1% of the votes, 2 seats
  • Remaining 1.9% of the vote, no seat

structure

The town and country municipality of Oberglogau covers an area of ​​170 km². The population is 13,258 (as of June 30, 2019). It is divided into the school authorities :

The municipality also includes other districts and hamlets of Zowade: Neuvorwerk (Bud), Golschowitz (Golczowice; 1936–45: Goldenau ), Mutzkau (Mucków) and Syßlau (Sysłów; 1936–45: Schüslau ) and Twardawa-Małkowice (Vorwerk Kleinau) .

Personalities

  • Jan Cybis (1897–1972), Polish painter; born in Froebel.

Web links

Commons : Gmina Głogówek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  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 results of the referendum ( memento of the original from November 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. down. on February 6, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oberschlesien-ka.de
  3. ↑ Cf. dat.prosilesia.net ( Memento from March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ See nto.pl
  5. ↑ Cf. Polish Statistical Office ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stat.gov.pl
  6. ↑ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 15, 2020.
  7. ↑ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 15, 2020.