Gmina Lewin Brzeski

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Gmina Lewin Brzeski
Coat of arms of Gmina Lewin Brzeski
Gmina Lewin Brzeski (Poland)
Gmina Lewin Brzeski
Gmina Lewin Brzeski
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Brzeski
Geographic location : 50 ° 45 '  N , 17 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '0 "  N , 17 ° 37' 9"  E
Height : 152 m npm
Residents : s. Gmina
Postal code : 49-340
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : IF
Economy and Transport
Street : Brzeg - Opole / A4 motorway
Rail route : Opole – Brzeg
Next international airport : Wroclaw
Gmina
Gminatype: Urban-and-rural parish
Gmina structure: 20 school offices
Surface: 159.70 km²
Residents: 12,968
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 81 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 1601043
Administration (as of 2010)
Mayor : Artur Kotara
Address: Rynek 1
49-340 Lewin Brzeski
Website : www.lewin-brzeski.pl



The Gmina Lewin Brzeski is an urban-and-rural municipality in the powiat Brzeski of the Opole Voivodeship in Poland . Your seat is the city ​​of the same name ( German lion ) with about 5900 inhabitants.

geography

Map of the municipality

The municipality is located in the west of the Opole Voivodeship, about ten kilometers northwest of Opole (Oppeln) and ten kilometers southeast of Brzeg (Brieg) . In the north the municipality borders on the Oder , other bodies of water are the Nysa Kłodzka (Glatzer Neisse) and the Ścinawa Niemodlińska (Steinau) .

All neighboring municipalities are part of the Opole Voivodeship. In the north, the community of Lewin Brzeski borders the communities of Skarbimierz (Hermsdorf) and Poppelau (Popielów), in the east on Groß Döbern and Dąbrowa (Dambrau), in the south on Niemodlin (Falkenberg O / S) and in the west on Olszanka (Alzenau) .

history

The municipality came to the Opole Voivodeship in 1950, which changed its layout several times until 1999. The powiat Brzeski was re-established in 1999.

Artur Kotara replaced Anna Twardowska as mayor in 2010.

Partnerships

The community maintains community partnerships since 1997 with Szegvár in Hungary and since 2006 with Senieji Trakai in Lithuania .

structure

The urban and rural community of Lewin Brzeski covers an area of ​​159.7 km² and, in addition to the city ​​that gives it its name, is divided into the following 20 school authorities:

traffic

Bridge on the national road DK94 near Skorogoszcz

Three important east-west connections run through the municipality:

The A4 motorway , the main east-west transit route in Poland, runs along the southern border of the municipality. A junction only exists outside of the municipality. The municipality has a share in the national road DK94 , which connects Wroclaw with Katowice .

Lewin Brzeski station is on the Bytom – Wrocław railway line , which was opened in this section in 1843.

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 .

Web links

Commons : Gmina Lewin Brzeski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files