Zembowitz community

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Zembowitz
Gmina Zębowice commune
Coat of arms of Gmina Zębowice
Zembowitz Gmina Zębowice Municipality (Poland)
Zembowitz Gmina Zębowice commune
Zembowitz
Gmina Zębowice commune
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Oleski
Geographic location : 50 ° 46 '  N , 18 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '45 "  N , 18 ° 20' 37"  E
Residents : see Gmina
Postal code : 46-048
Telephone code : (+48) 77 4216
License plate : OOL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Katowice
Gmina
Gminatype: Rural community
Gmina structure: 9 school offices
Surface: 116.73 km²
Residents: 3652
(June 30, 2019)
Population density : 31 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 1608072
Administration (as of 2008)
Community leader : Waldemar Czaja
Address:
ul.Murka 2 46-048 Zębowice
Website : www.zebowice.pl



The municipality Zembowitz ( Polish Gmina Zębowice ) is a rural municipality in the powiat Oleski of the Opole Voivodeship in Poland . Its seat is the village of the same name with about 1500 inhabitants (June 2007).

With 44 percent, the community has the largest share of members of the German minority in Poland and has been officially bilingual since 2007.

history

Map of the municipality of Zembowitz
Municipal office in Zembowitz

Zembowitz had a station on the Kędzierzyn-Koźle-Kluczbork railway . Passenger traffic was discontinued on December 12, 2004 and the route was closed.

After the introduction of German as the second official language in 2007, on November 19, 2008, the places in the municipality were also given official German place names.

2002 census

Along with Czissek and Klein Strehlitz, Zembowitz is the only municipality in Poland that is predominantly inhabited by Germans (2002 census).

Nationalities of the community of Zembowitz
nationality number proportion of
German 1859 43.9%
Polish 1645 38.9%
" Silesian " 654 15.5%
no information 67 1.6%

structure

The rural community (gmina wiejska) Zembowitz with about 3700 inhabitants is divided into nine villages with school authorities :

In addition, the municipality includes other villages that do not have the status of a Schulzenamt, such as Borowiany (Borowian) , Koschütz / Kosice, Nowa Wieś (Neudorf) and Radawka (Radawka colony) .

politics

Community leader

The head of the municipal administration is the municipality leader . Since 2008 this is Waldemar Czaja. The regular election in October 2018 brought the following result:

  • Waldemar Czaja (Election Committee "Waldemar Czaja - Effective for the Municipality") 57.2% of the votes
  • Edmund Langosz ( German Minority Election Committee ) 42.8% of the vote

Czaja 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:

  • German minority election committee 53.5% of the vote, 10 seats
  • Election committee "Waldemar Czaja - Effective for the municipality" 43.6% of the votes, 5 seats
  • Election Committee "Pszylepek" 2.9% of the vote, no seat

Web links

Commons : Gmina Zębowice  - collection of pictures, 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. ↑ THE FIGURES OF THE PEOPLE Census 2002 ( Memento of March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ See Polish Main Statistical Office (GUS) ( Memento from December 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 12, 2020.
  5. ↑ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 12, 2020.