Gierałtowice

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Gierałtowice
Gierałtowice coat of arms
Gierałtowice (Poland)
Gierałtowice
Gierałtowice
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Silesia
Powiat : Gliwice
Gmina : Gierałtowice municipality
Area : 10.48  km²
Geographic location : 50 ° 13 '  N , 18 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '25 "  N , 18 ° 43' 27"  E
Residents : 4800
Postal code : 44-186
Telephone code : (+48) 32
License plate : SGL
Economy and Transport
Street : Zabrze - Pilchowice
A4 motorway
Rail route : Zabrze - Rybnik
Next international airport : Katowice
Gmina
Gminatype: Rural community
Gmina structure: 4 localities
4 school offices
Surface: 37.56 km²
Residents: 12.096
(June 30, 2019)
Population density : 322 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 2405032
Administration (as of 2007)
Mayor : Joachim Bargiel
Address: ul.Ks. Roboty 48
44-186 Gierałtowice
Website : www.gieraltowice.pl



Gierałtowice [ giɛrawtɔ'vʲitsɛ ] ( German Gieraltowitz , hist. Geraltowicz u. Geraltowitz ) is an Upper Silesian village in the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland . Gierałtowice is the seat of Gmina Gierałtowice .

Geographical location

Gierałtowice is located about 8 km southeast of Gliwice ( Gleiwitz ) and is adjacent to the western neighboring town Knurów . The community is located on the edge of the Upper Silesian industrial area in the Coseler Kessel between the Klodnitz and the Birawka .

history

The village of Gieraltowitz came into being in the late 13th century in an extensive forest area. Gieraltowitz was probably a foundation of the eastern colonization , which is also indicated by its first documentary mention on June 22, 1290 or the place name. Because the village originally took the name of a German colonist named Gerhard. At the same time, this and a later document from 1294 provided information about a certain Vitoslaw, the local mayor at the time. With the increasing Polish settlement of the village, the part of the place name Gerhard zu Gieralto also changed .

At the beginning of the 14th century Gieraltowitz became a manor and the small village changed hands several times. First it was the brothers Johann, Peter and Markus who called themselves Gieraltowski von Gieraltowitz , followed by Paul Twardawa . Matthias von Dobschütz bought the estate from him in 1532 and sold it to Jan Przedbor on December 22, 1544 for 1,600 guilders . In 1665 Johann Skal was the buyer of the property, from which it passed to Georg Freiherr von Welcz in 1679 . Soon afterwards Gieraltowitz passed to Franz von Holy and Ponientschütz († 1709) and in 1697 at the latest to Kaspar von Schick . In 1700 his wife transferred a piece of land to the church, on which the new local church was built in 1928. In the 18th century, Carl Wenzel von Tluck and Toschonowitz (* approx. 1702; † 1765), then his son Anton von Tluck and Toschonowitz (* 1736; † 1775 in Gieraltowitz) and then his son-in-law Rudolph von Zawandzki-Polanka (* 1754; † 1823 in Gieraltowitz) landlords. The von Poraj Madejski family , who owned Gieraltowitz since 1839, had a manor house built in the village . In 1853, Karl von Raczek became the new owner, and his family had a neo-baroque castle built in what is now the Preiswitz ( Przyszowice ) district from 1898 to 1904 . From 1895 to 1898 a small monastery was established in Gieraltowitz as the founding of Franz von Raczek , whose family still owned the Gieraltowitz estate until 1929.

In 1534 a scrap wood church was built as a foundation by Stanislaus Dombrowka. After the construction of the new church in 1928 it was no longer in use, fell into disrepair and was in the 1976 Rybnik Wielopole district translocated .

After the First World War , the Gieraltowitz manor district (1910: 129 inhabitants) was dissolved and incorporated into the village, which had 1,344 inhabitants in 1910.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 108 votes were cast in Gieraltowitz for staying with Germany and 769 for belonging to Poland. The constituency of Tost-Gleiwitz, to which Gieraltowitz belonged, remained part of the Weimar Republic , whereas Gieraltowitz, like Preiswitz, was returned to Poland and was located directly on the new border.

During the attack on Poland in 1939, the place was occupied by the German Wehrmacht . After the invasion of the Red Army in 1945, the village became Polish again.

In 1977 the municipality of Gierałtowice was formed and the nearby villages of Bujaków, Chudów, Ornontowice , Paniówki and Przyszowice were incorporated. This was followed in 1991 after a citizens' initiative, the settlement of Ornontowice, which from then on formed an independent rural community, while Bujaków became part of Mikołów in 1995 .

Attractions

  • The Gieraltowitz parish church was built in its current form in 1928 next to the historic scrap wood church. Modern elements predominate, while the onion helmet and the roof turret can be assigned to the neo-baroque.
  • The classical manor house of the Poraj Madejski family was built in 1845 and rebuilt after 1945.

Town twinning

Gierałtowice has a partnership with the former municipality of Lahstedt (now part of Ilsede ) in Lower Saxony .

References

Web links

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. ↑ Dr. Johannes Chrzaszcz (Chronz): Upper Silesian Homeland, the Upper Silesian History Association . tape XI . Upper Silesian History Association, Opole 1915, p. 110 ( org.pl ).
  3. ↑ a b c Historia parafii . In: Parafia Matki Bożej Szkaplerznej . October 18, 2013 ( szkaplerznej.pl [accessed March 3, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Badstübner, Ernst., Brzezicki, Sławomir., Nielsen, Christine., Herder Institute (Marburg, Germany: 1994-), Dehio-Vereinigung .: Schlesien . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X .
  5. ↑ Landsmannschaft der Oberschlesier in Karlsruhe. March 4, 2016, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 3, 2018 .