Gmina Skawina

Gmina Skawina
	Gmina Skawina
	Gmina Skawina
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lesser Poland
Powiat :	Krakowski
Geographic location :	49 ° 59 ′ N , 19 ° 50 ′ E Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ N , 19 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E
Residents :	s. Gmina
Postal code :	32-050
Telephone code :	(+48) 12
License plate :	KRA
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 44
Next international airport :	Krakow-Balice
Gmina
Gminatype:	Urban-and-rural parish
Gmina structure:	17 localities
	16 school authorities
Surface:	100.15 km²
Residents:	43,554 ; (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density :	435 inhabitants / km²
Community number ( GUS ):	1206113
administration
Mayor :	Norbert Rzepisko
Address:	Rynek 1 ; Skawina
Website :	www.um.skawina.net
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The Gmina Skawina is an urban-and-rural municipality in the powiat Krakowski of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland . Its seat is the industrial city of the same name with around 24,300 inhabitants.

geography

Map of the municipality

The municipality borders the city of Krakow in the northeast . The northern border of the municipality is formed by the Vistula , other bodies of water are the rivers Skawinka and Cedron. The Łączany Canal is part of the Upper Vistula (Rów Skawiński) waterway .

history

From 1975 to 1998 the municipality was part of the Kraków Voivodeship .

Jurczyce village is the ancestral seat of the Jursitzky family .

Twin cities

Town twinning has existed since 1996 with Hürth , since 2005 with Thetford (both are also connected), with Rostok near Prague (2005), the Slovak Turčianske Teplice (1999), Civitanova Marche in Italy (2005) and since 2008 with Peremyschljany in the Ukraine.

structure

In addition to the city of Skawina, the town-and-country community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) includes the following 16 villages with a Schulzenamt :

Infrastructure

As a larger industrial city, Skawina has appropriate schools, a cultural center, two swimming pools and, together with the municipality, six facilities for ball sports and athletics, tennis courts, a cycling track and a marina with 150 berths.

traffic

The DK 44 expressway leads to Kraków and the A4 motorway . Skawina station has existed on the Galician Transversal Railway since 1890 . Skawina is connected with the international Kraków-Balice by bus.

Personalities

Józef Haller (1873–1960), General of the 2nd Polish Republic; born in Jurczyce

Web links

Commons : Gmina Skawina - collection of images, videos and audio files

City and municipality 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 .
↑ Brochure from the Huerth Partnership Association (2006).

[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] Brochure from the Huerth Partnership Association (2006).