Radlau municipality

Radlau Commune ; Gmina Radłów
	Radlau Commune ; Gmina Radłów
	Radlau Commune ; Gmina Radłów
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Oleski
Geographic location :	50 ° 56 ' N , 18 ° 32' E Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '0 " N , 18 ° 32' 0" E
Height :	210-275 m npm
Residents :	see Gmina
Postal code :	46-331
Telephone code :	(+48) 34
License plate :	OOL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice
Gmina
Gminatype:	Rural community
Gmina structure:	9 school offices
Surface:	116.73 km²
Residents:	4308 ; (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density :	37 inhabitants / km²
Community number ( GUS ):	1608052
Administration (as of 2014)
Wójt :	Włodzimierz Kierat
Address:	; ul.Oleska 3 46-331 Radłów
Website :	radlow.pl
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The municipality Radlau ( Polish Gmina Radłów ) is a rural municipality in the powiat Oleski of the Opole Voivodeship in Poland . It has around 4400 inhabitants and has been officially bilingual (Polish and German) since 2006. Their seat is the village of the same name with about 600 inhabitants.

geography

The rural community is located in the northeast of the voivodeship on the Silesian plateau and borders the district town of Olesno (Rosenberg OS) . Częstochowa (Czestochowa) is 30 kilometers southeast. The northern municipal border forms the border between Upper Silesia and Lesser Poland . The largest flowing water is the Prosna , which rises near Wollentschin. The Prąd brook also has its source in the municipality.

The municipal area covers an area of 116.73 km², 59.3% of which are used for agriculture and 34.5% for forestry. Forests mainly occupy the south of the municipality.

Neighboring communities are in the north Rudniki , in the east Krzepice , in the south Olesno and in the west Gorzów Śląski (Landsberg OS) .

history

The municipality was founded in 1946 as Gmina Sternalice . The smaller Radłów became the seat of the municipality in 1952. From 1975 to 1998 the municipality belonged to the Częstochowa Voivodeship .

The municipality of Radlau became officially bilingual in 2006 - in accordance with the Polish minority law of 2005 - and in 2007 a municipal resolution to set up bilingual place-name signs was approved by the Ministry of the Interior. On September 12, 2008 Radlau was the first municipality in Poland to set up bilingual place-name signs.

coat of arms

Blazon : The coat of arms of the municipality shows a silver plow in green .

The coat of arms was introduced in this form in 2001. It is a talking coat of arms , as the place name is derived from the word radło (= plow). The green color of the sign stands for the importance of agriculture in the community.

structure

The rural municipality of Radlau consists of the following villages with a Schulzenamt (sołectwo):

District	Inhabitants 1910	Population 2007
Bischdorf / Biskupice	1,050	435
Friedrichswille / Kolonia Biskupska		186
Kostellitz / Kościeliska	961	737
Ellguth / Ligota Oleska	631	395
New Karmunkau / Nowe Karmonki	739	449
Radlau / Radłów	561	627
Sternalitz / Sternalice	950	838
Wichrau / Wichrów	603	427
Wollentschin / Wolęcin	204	146

The rural community includes three other localities that do not have the status of a Schulzenamt: Straßenkrug / Biskupskie Drogi , Psurow / Psurów and Alt Karmunkau / Stare Karmonki .

politics

Community leader

The head of the municipal administration is the municipality leader . Since 2014 this has been Włodzimierz Kierat from the German minority. The regular election in October 2018 brought the following result:

Włodzimierz Kierat ( German Minority Election Committee ) 55.1% of the vote
Justyna Szoprun (Election Committee “Local Work”) 44.9% of the vote

Kierat was thus re-elected in the first ballot.

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 German minority 52.3% of the vote, 10 seats
Election Committee "Local Work" 19.6% of the vote, 1 seat
Election Committee Łukasz Kansy 13.1% of the vote, 3 seats
Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe (PSL) 11.9% of the vote, 1 seat
Electoral committee Marek Lotza 3.1%, no seat

education

There is a middle school (gimnazjum) in the main town. The municipality maintains a library, a village community center (Ośrodek Kultury) and a kindergarten in Radlau .

Web links

Community website (Polish)

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 .
↑ Gmina radlow.pl
↑ Polish Interior Ministry: Dz.U. 2006 no. 17 poz. 141 (Polish)
↑ n-tv.de: New Normality , September 12, 2008.
↑ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 12, 2020.
↑ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 12, 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] Gmina radlow.pl

[3] Polish Interior Ministry: Dz.U. 2006 no. 17 poz. 141 (Polish)

[4] -tv.de: New Normality , September 12, 2008.

[5] Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 12, 2020.

[6] Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 12, 2020.