Mikołów

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Mikołów
Mikołów Coat of Arms
Mikołów (Poland)
Mikołów
Mikołów
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Silesia
Powiat : Mikołów
Area : 18.07  km²
Geographic location : 50 ° 10 ′  N , 18 ° 54 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 6 "  N , 18 ° 54 ′ 11"  E
Residents : 40,898
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Postal code : 43-190 to 43-197
Telephone code : (+48) 32
License plate : SMI
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 81
DK 44
Rail route : Katowice - Racibórz
Next international airport : Katowice Airport
Gmina
Gminatype: Borough
Surface: 79.21 km²
Residents: 40,898
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 516 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 2408021
Administration (as of 2015)
Mayor : Stanislaw Piechula
Address:
ul.Rynek 16 43-190 Mikołów
Website : www.mikolow.eu



Mikołów [ mʲi'kɔu̯uf ] ( German: Nikolai; until 1911 Nicolai, Upper Silesian : Mikołůw ) is the district town of the Powiat Mikołowski in the Polish Voivodeship of Silesia .

geography

location

The city is located in Upper Silesia on the Jamna at 308 m above sea level , 10 km southwest of Katowice .
The municipality has an area of ​​78.89 km², 56% of which is used for agriculture; 28% of the area is covered with forest.

City structure

The borowa Wieś, Bujaków, Mokre, Paniowy and Śmiłowice districts have separate school offices, but Kamionka does not.

history

Mikołów Market Square and Town Hall
Parish Church of St. Adalbert
Protestant church
Houses in the city center
Synagogue (photo taken around 1920)

The first documented mention of the city as Miculow comes from the year 1222. The place is located on the western edge of the sub-area of Upper Silesia , which belonged to Lesser Poland or the Duchy of Krakow until 1177/1178 and then came to the Duchy of Ratibor , ruled by the Silesian Piasts has been. It was from this time that it belonged to the Diocese of Krakow until 1821 (then to the Diocese of Breslau , from 1925 to the Diocese of Katowice ). In 1336, Mikołów fell to the Kingdom of Bohemia as part of the Duchy of Ratibor . In 1545 the city received market rights . In 1645 a devastating city fire raged in Mikołów, another followed on May 20, 1794. In 1742 the city came from the Habsburg monarchy to Prussia .

In 1856 a train station was built in the city . The colloquial language of the townspeople was water Polish and broken German; only a small part of the population had a complete command of the German language. In 1874, the Polish publisher Karol Miarka opened a printing house in the city .

At the beginning of the 20th century the city had a Protestant church, two Catholic churches, a synagogue , a district court, heavy industry and belonged to the district of Pless in the administrative district of Opole in the Prussian province of Silesia of the German Empire .

On July 22, 1911, the spelling of the place name Nicolai was changed to Nikolai . In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 3,059 votes were cast in Nikolai, or 55.7% of the valid votes for remaining in Germany and 2,434 for joining Poland. Since the constituency of Pless, to which the city belonged, had voted for Poland with a large majority, the city of Nikolai was ceded to Poland as Mikołów on June 28, 1922 .

Between 1922 and 1939 the city belonged to the autonomous Silesian Voivodeship . During the attack on Poland in September 1939, Mikołów was occupied by the German Wehrmacht , and then in January 1945 by the Red Army . In the summer of 1945 the city was handed over to Poland by the Soviet occupying forces .

From 1975 to 1998 Mikołów was part of the Katowice Voivodeship .

Demographics

Population development until 1922
year population Remarks
1816 1819
1825 2167 including 65 Evangelicals, 1830 Catholics, 272 Jews
1834 2725
1837 2680
1840 3059 114 Protestants, 2,556 Catholics, 389 Jews
1849 3744
1855 3734
1861 4479 thereof 344 Evangelicals, 3631 Catholics, 504 Jews (2971 Polish speakers)
1867 4674 on December 3rd
1871 5004 including 400 Protestants, 450 Jews (1,300 Poles ); According to other data, 5001 inhabitants (on December 1), of which 405 are Protestants, 4156 Catholics, 440 Jews
1890 5633 including 440 Protestants and 278 Jews
1905 7728 mostly Catholics
1910 8377

education

Mikołów has 12 kindergartens (Przedszkole) , 9 elementary schools (Szkoła podstawowa) , three middle schools (gimnazjum) and two schools (liceum ogólnokształcące) and a school center with a professional school (liceum profilowane) , Berufsoberschule (pilot plant) and basic professional school (zasadnicza szkoła zawodowa) .

traffic

The Droga krajowa 44 and Droga krajowa 81 and the Droga wojewódzka DW 927 and DW 928 run through the city. The railway line 140 from Nędza to Katowice also runs through the city.

politics

mayor

The mayor is at the head of the city administration . So far, this has been Stanisław Piechula, who ran with his own election committee. The regular election in October 2018 led to the following result:

  • Stanisław Piechula (Election Committee “Together for Mikołów - Stanisław Piechula”) 58.0% of the vote
  • Michał Rupik (Election Committee “Local Administration of Upper Silesia”) 18.7% of the vote
  • Adam Zawiczowski ( Prawo i Sprawiedliwość ) 13.7% of the vote
  • Irena Radomska (Election Committee for Effective Voting) 9.6% of the vote

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

City council

The city council consists of 21 members and is elected by the population. The 2018 city council election led to the following result:

  • Citizen Election Committee “Local Administration” 25.3% of the vote, 7 seats
  • Election Committee “Together for Mikołów - Stanisław Piechula” 24.8% of the vote, 6 seats
  • Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS) 19.0% of the vote, 4 seats
  • Election Committee “Local Administration of Upper Silesia” 12.3% of the votes, 1 seat
  • Election committee for effective voting 11.2% of the vote, 2 seats
  • Election committee for the municipalities and the powiat 7.3% of the vote, 1 seat

Twin cities

sons and daughters of the town

literature

  • Felix Triest : Topographical Handbook of Upper Silesia , Wilh. Gottl. Korn, Breslau 1865, pp. 602-605 .
  • Johann Georg Knie : Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, towns, cities and other places of the royal family. Preusz. Province of Silesia. 2nd Edition. Graß, Barth and Comp., Breslau 1845, pp. 886-887 .

Web links

Commons : Mikołów  - 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. ↑ regioset.pl (Polish)
  3. ↑ a b c d Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Wilh. Gottl. Korn, Breslau 1865, p. 604 .
  4. ↑ a b Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon . 6th edition, Volume 14, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p. 693.
  5. ↑ See territorial.de ; down. on April 6, 2009
  6. ↑ See results of the referendum ( memento of the original from November 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. down. on April 6, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oberschlesien-ka.de
  7. ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 ( Memento from April 8, 2009 on WebCite ) (Polish)
  8. ^ A b Gustav Neumann : The German Empire in geographical, statistical and topographical relation . Volume 2, GFO Müller, Berlin 1874, p. 180 .
  9. ↑ Johann Georg Knie : Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, spots, cities and other places of the royal family. Prussia. Province of Silesia, including the Margraviate of Upper Lusatia, which now belongs entirely to the province, and the County of Glatz; together with the attached evidence of the division of the country into the various branches of civil administration. Melcher, Breslau 1830, pp. 983-953 .
  10. ^ Johann Georg Knie : Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, spots, cities and other places of the royal family. Preusz. Province of Silesia. 2nd Edition. Graß, Barth and Comp., Breslau 1845, pp. 886-887 .
  11. ↑ a b Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Wilh. Gottl. Korn, Breslau 1865, p. 568, paragraph 67 .
  12. ^ Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Wilh. Gottl. Korn, Breslau 1865, p. 564 .
  13. ^ A b Royal Statistical Bureau: The municipalities and manor districts of the province of Silesia and their population. Based on the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. Berlin 1874, pp. 342–343, item 3 .
  14. ↑ a b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. sch_pless.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  15. ^ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 20, 2020.
  16. ^ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 20, 2020.