Turawa parish

Turawa Gmina Turawa Parish
	Turawa Gmina Turawa Parish
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Opolski
Geographic location :	50 ° 45 '  N , 18 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '0 "  N , 18 ° 4' 0"  E
Residents :	see Gmina
Postal code :	46-045
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPO
Economy and Transport
Rail route :	Opole – Kluczbork stops at Kotórz Mały and Osowiec Przystanek
Next international airport :	Katowice
Gmina
Gminatype:	Rural community
Gmina structure:	11 school offices
Surface:	171.46 km²
Residents:	9990 (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density :	58 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ):	1609132
Administration (as of 2018)
Wójt :	Dominik Pikos
Address:	ul. Opolska 39c 46-045 Turawa
Website :	www.turawa.pl

The community Turawa ( Gmina Turawa ) is a rural municipality in the Opole County of Opole in Poland . Its seat is the village of the same name with around 1150 inhabitants.

geography

Map of the rural community with the Turawa Reservoir

The municipality borders the voivodeship capital Opole in the south-west and, like this, is centrally located in the voivodeship. Neighboring communities are Chronstau , Gross Lassowitz , Lugnian , Opole, Ozimek and Zembowitz . The Turawa reservoir belongs to the municipal area .

The waters include the Turawa reservoir (Jeziora Turawskie) with the tributaries Mała Panew ( German Malapane ) and Libawa.

history

In the referendum on March 20, 1921, 320 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 133 for Poland.

In 1945 the area came to Poland. The Gmina Turawa was formed and became part of the Opole Voivodeship in 1950. The Gromada Turawa existed from 1954 to 1972 . From 1975 to 1998 the municipality belonged to the smaller Opole Voivodeship .

In the 2002 census, 21.1% of the community population of 9609 inhabitants said they belonged to the German minority and another 7% said they belonged to the unrecognized “Silesian” nationality. 12.7% of the population did not state any nationality in the survey.

On March 8, 2012, additional official German place names were introduced in the community.

politics

Community leader

The head of the municipal administration is the municipality leader . Since 2002 this has been Waldemar Kampa from the German minority. The regular election in October 2018 led to the following result.

• Dominik Pikos (election committee “Together we can do more”) 55.2% of the votes
• Waldemar Kampa ( German Minority Election Committee ) 44.8% of the vote

This means that Pikos was elected the new mayor in the first ballot.

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 14 members and is directly elected in single-person constituencies. The 2018 municipal council election led to the following result:

• Election committee “Together we can do more” 53.2% of the votes, 7 seats
• Election committee German minority 37.3% of the votes, 6 seats
• Election committee “Our self-government” 5.8% of the votes, 1 seat
• Koalicja Obywatelska (KO) 3.1% of the vote, no seat
• Remaining 0.6% of the vote, no seat

Partner communities

• Wetter (Ruhr) , North Rhine-Westphalia
• Saalfelder Höhe , Thuringia
• Dřevohostice , Czech Republic since 2009.

structure

The Turawa rural community includes the following villages:

• Bierdzan (Bierdzany, 1936–1945 Burkardsdorf)
• Ellguth Turawa (Ligota Turawska)
• Friedrichsfelde (Rzędów)
• Groß Kottorz (Kotórz Wielki, 1936–1945 Großochen)
• Kadlub Turawa (Kadłub Turawski, 1936–1945 Fichten OS)
• Klein Kottorz (Kotórz Mały, 1936–1945 Klein Cooking)
• King's grace (Osowiec)
• Sacrau Turawa (Zakrzów Turawski, 1936–1945 Hochfelde OS)
• Sowade (Zawada, 1936–1945 Hinterwasser)
• Turawa (Turawa)
• Wengern (Węgry)

Another place is the Piła forest settlement.

Personalities

• Joachim Prinz (1902–1988), rabbi; born in Bierdzan.

Web links

Commons : Turawa Municipality  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Web presence of the Turawa municipality

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. ↑ Census 2002: Archived copy ( memento of the original from February 21, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Polish Ministry of Public Administration and Digitization: List of municipalities according to Article 12 of the law of January 6, 2005 on national and ethnic minorities and the regional language  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 294 KiB)  
4. ↑ "Red cards and what now?" , On wochenblatt.pl, accessed on August 3, 2020.
5. ↑ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 3, 2020.
6. ↑ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 3, 2020.
7. ↑ http://www.drevohostice.cz/index.php?nid=1243&lid=CZ&oid=1362926