Siemianowice Śląskie

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Siemianowice Śląskie
Coat of arms of Siemianowice Śląskie
Siemianowice Śląskie (Poland)
Siemianowice Śląskie
Siemianowice Śląskie
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Silesia
Powiat : District-free city
Area : 25.50  km²
Geographic location : 50 ° 19 ′  N , 19 ° 2 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  N , 19 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 210 m npm
Residents : 66,963
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Postal code : 41-100 to 41-106
Telephone code : (+48) 32
License plate : SI
Economy and Transport
Street : Bytom - Katowice
Next international airport : Katowice Airport
Gmina
Gminatype: city
Residents: 66,963
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Community number  ( GUS ): 2474011
Administration (as of 2007)
City President : Rafał Piech
Address: ul. Jana Pawła II 10
41-100 Siemianowice Śląskie
Website : www.um.siemianowice.pl



Siemianowice Śląskie [ ɕɛmʲanɔˈvʲit ͡sɛ ˈɕlɔ̃skʲɛ ] (1923–1927: Huta Laura-Siemianowice) is an industrial city in southern Poland in the Silesian Voivodeship . The independent city is located about six kilometers north of Katowice in the Upper Silesian industrial area . The town was founded in 1927 by the merger of the formerly independent municipalities Siemianowice (German: Siemianowitz ) and Huta Laura (Laura hut) and received in 1932 the town charter .

town hall

history

Laurahütte around 1840
Center of the former Laurahütte

Originally, Siemianowitz was a fishing village, as is indicated by the city coat of arms, which was first used in 1789. The village of Seymanovicze was first mentioned in a document in 1451. This village only gained great importance much later and remained in the shadow of today's district of Michalkowitz for a long time, especially since Siemianowitz belonged to the local parish church.

In the 19th century, the region experienced rapid change due to the mining industry . Numerous hard coal mines and metal processing companies emerged . In 1836, a few kilometers south of Siemianowitz, the Laurahütte ironworks went into operation, around which a settlement of the same name was built. In 1871 the work was incorporated into the United Königs- und Laurahütte joint-stock company . The old village of Siemianowitz and the new industrial town of Laurahütte grew rapidly and soon formed a coherent network of industrial companies and workers' settlements around the economic backbone of the steel-producing Laurahütte and the hard coal mines Richter and Laurahütte . Communally, however, the two places were independent and from 1873 belonged to the Prussian district of Katowice . The municipality of Siemianowitz built a stately town hall on the former fairgrounds in 1904, but the development of the new market square remained unfinished. The town hall of the Laurahütte community was built in 1897 in a clearly reserved form.

In 1910 the municipality of Siemianowitz had 18,336 inhabitants, the manor district of Siemianowitz 1,293. 16,120 people lived in the Laurahütte community.

Although in the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921 in Siemianowitz 56.3% and in Laurahütte 66.7% voted to remain with Germany, the places fell to Poland in 1922 and were renamed Siemianowice or Huta Laura . In 1923 it was merged to form the new municipality of Huta Laura-Siemianowice Śląskie, which was renamed Siemianowice Śląskie in 1927 and received town charter in 1932 . After the invasion of Poland , the city became German again for the time of the Second World War and was given the name of the Laurahütte district.

Since the end of the 20th century, Siemianowice has to struggle with the consequences of structural change, the decline of the coal and steel industry and a correspondingly high level of unemployment. At times the city had the highest unemployment rate in the Silesian Voivodeship at 30.3%. Today (as of December 2009) it is significantly lower at 13.1%, but is still well above the voivodeship's average of 3.3%.

City structure

Siemianowice Śląskie is divided into the following districts:

district Area (km²)
Center 11.98
Michałkowice (Michalkowitz) 5.46
Bytków (Bittkow) 2.3
Bańgów (Baingow) 2.96
Przełajka (Przelaika) 2.7
Węzłowiec Housing Estate in Bytków

politics

City President

At the head of the city administration is the city ​​president . Since 2014 this has been Rafał Piech, who is running with his own election committee. The regular election in October 2018 led to the following results:

Piech was thus re-elected for a further term in the first ballot.

City council

The city council has 23 members who are directly elected. The election in October 2018 led to the following result:

  • Election Committee Rafał Piech 32.4% of the vote, 10 seats
  • Koalicja Obywatelska (KO) 17.1% of the vote, 4 seats
  • Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS) 15.7% of the vote, 4 seats
  • Election Committee “Local Administration 2018” 12.0% of the votes, 3 seats
  • Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej (SLD) / Lewica Razem (Razem) 10.1% of the votes, 1 seat
  • Election committee “Siemianowice together for Anna Zasady-Chorab” 8.4% of the votes, 1 seat
  • Kukiz'15 4.3% of the vote, no seat

coat of arms

Town twinning

Siemianowice Śląskie has partnerships with the following cities:

Buildings

  • Castle of the Henckel von Donnersmarck family with baroque, classicist and neo-Gothic parts
  • The town hall was built in 1904 as a brick building in neo-baroque forms based on a design by the architect Johannes Seiffert. In 1923–1925, the building was expanded to create the meeting room.
  • The Catholic parish church Heiligkreuz is a neo-Gothic brick building from 1884 based on plans by Paul Jackisch . The church was richly endowed as the Hugo II Henckel von Donnersmarcks Foundation .
  • The Evangelical Luther Church has been used again by the Evangelical Church of Augsburg Confession since 2000 , after it was transferred to the Catholics after the Second World War. The neo-Gothic design comes from Franz Posern from Pless and was built from brick in 1893–1895.
  • Bytków TV tower

Memorials

The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge ( Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge) has established a war cemetery near Laurahütte with 31,000 German war dead (2011 figure).

traffic

In public transport there is a connection to the Upper Silesian tram network .

The Siemianowice Śląskie station is located on the Katowice Szopienice Północne – Chorzów Stary railway, which is only operated for freight .

sons and daughters of the town

Sorted by year of birth

Web links

Commons : Siemianowice Śląskie  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. ↑ Siemianowitz municipality: 5,441 for Germany, 4,232 for Poland;
    Laurahütte municipality: 6,160 for Germany, 3,081 for Poland;
    Siemianowitz manor district: 55 for Germany / 64 for Poland ;
    See results of the referendum ( memento of the original from November 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )     Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. down. on November 6, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oberschlesien-ka.de
  3. ↑ See katowice.wyborcza.pl
  4. ↑ Cf. Statistisches Amt Kattowitz ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pup.katowice.pl
  5. ^ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 27, 2020.
  6. ^ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 27, 2020.
  7. ↑ See film Polski