Leboszowice
Leboszowice Leboschowitz |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Poland | |
Voivodeship : | Silesia | |
Powiat : | Gliwicki (Gleiwitz) | |
Gmina : | Pilchowice (Pilchowitz) | |
Geographic location : | 50 ° 14 ' N , 18 ° 33' E | |
Residents : | ||
Postal code : | 44-145 | |
Telephone code : | (+48) 32 | |
License plate : | SGL | |
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Next international airport : | Katowice-Pyrzowice |
Leboszowice (German Leboschowitz ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Administratively it is located in the municipality of Pilchowice (Pilchowitz) in the powiat Gliwicki (district of Gliwice) in the Silesian Voivodeship .
geography
Leboszowice is twelve kilometers southwest of the district town Gliwice (Gleiwitz) and 33 kilometers west of the voivodeship capital Katowice .
The Birawka River flows nearby .
history
In 1742 the place with most of Silesia came to Prussia. The place was mentioned in 1783 in the book Additions to the Description of Silesia as Leboschowi (t) z and was in the Tost district of the Principality of Opole . At that time he had a farm, nine farmers, ten gardeners and 125 residents. In 1865 Leboschowitz had six farmers, eight half-farmers, ten quarter-farmers and ten cottagers. The residents were parish and schooled in Pilchowitz (Rybnik district).
In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 41 people eligible to vote voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 113 for membership in Poland. Leboschowitz stayed with the German Empire after the division of Upper Silesia . In 1936 the place was renamed Kleingarben as part of a wave of renaming during the Nazi era . Until 1945 the place was in the district of Tost-Gleiwitz .
In 1945 the formerly German town came under Polish administration and was then attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed Leboszowice in Poland . In 1950 the place came to the Katowice Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Gliwicki and the new Silesian Voivodeship.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Ernst Tramp: Additions to the Description of Silesia , Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
- ↑ Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
- ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature (Polish, French), table in digital form