Gmina Wołczyn

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Gmina Wołczyn
Coat of arms of Gmina Wołczyn
Gmina Wołczyn (Poland)
Gmina Wołczyn
Gmina Wołczyn
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Kluczborski
Geographic location : 51 ° 1 '  N , 18 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '0 "  N , 18 ° 3' 0"  E
Height : 172 m npm
Residents : s. Gmina
Postal code : 46-250
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OKL
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 42 Namysłów - Starachowice
Rail route : Kluczbork – Wrocław
Next international airport : Wroclaw
Gmina
Gminatype: Urban-and-rural parish
Gmina structure: 20 school offices
Surface: 240.86 km²
Residents: 13,579
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 56 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 1604043
Administration (as of 2007)
Mayor : Jan Wiącek
Address: ul. Dworcowa 1
46-250 Wołczyn
Website : www.wolczyn.pl



The Gmina Wołczyn [ ˈvɔʊ̯ʧɨn ] is a town-and-country municipality in the powiat Kluczborski of the Opole Voivodeship in Poland . Your seat is the small town of the same name ( German Konstadt ) with about 6000 inhabitants.

geography

The municipality is located in the northwest of Upper Silesia in the Silesian Lowlands . It borders on the municipality of the district town of Kluczbork (Kreuzburg in Upper Silesia) and is 40 kilometers northeast of the voivodeship capital Opole .

One of the waters is the Brynica (Brinnitze) , a tributary of the Stobrawa (Stober) , which flows around it.

history

As a result of the Second World War, Silesia and Konstadt fell to Poland in 1945 and became part of the Silesian Voivodeship . In 1950 the region was incorporated into the Opole Voivodeship. From 1975 to 1998 the municipality belonged to the smaller Opole Voivodeship . Then in 1999 she came to the newly founded Powiat Kluczborski in what is now the Opole Voivodeship.

Community partnerships

structure

In addition to its main town, the urban and rural community includes twenty villages with school offices (sołectwo):

traffic

The state road Droga krajowa 42 (DK 42) runs through the municipality . On the Kluczbork – Wrocław railway line there is a connection to Wołczyn station and Wierzbica Górna station.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Gmina Wołczyn  - collection of images, 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 .