Mszana

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Mszana
Coat of arms of the municipality
Mszana (Poland)
Mszana
Mszana
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Silesia
Powiat : Wodzisławski
Geographic location : 49 ° 48 '  N , 18 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '9 "  N , 18 ° 31' 56"  E
Height : 255 m npm
Residents : 3659 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 44-325
Telephone code : (+48) 32
License plate : SWD
Gmina
Gminatype: Rural community
Gmina structure: 3 school offices
Residents: 7702
(June 30, 2019)
Community number  ( GUS ): 2415092
Administration (as of 2010)
Mayor : Miroslaw Szymanek
Address: ul. 1 Maja 81
44-325 Mszana
Website : www.mszana.ug.gov.pl



Mszana is a village in the powiat Wodzisławski in the Silesian Voivodeship , Poland . The village is also the seat of the rural community of the same name .

geography

Mszana is located on the southeastern part of the Rybnik Plateau, 48 km southwest of Katowice and 5 km southeast of the district town of Wodzisław Śląski . The small river Mszanka flows into the Szotkówka in the village .

history

The first written mention comes from the year 1305. 1447 a church in the village is mentioned for the first time. In 1855 the village had 757 inhabitants.

From 1975 to 1998 the village belonged to the Katowice Voivodeship .

politics

Community leader

The head of the municipal administration is the municipality leader . Currently this is Mirosław Szymanek, who is running for the electoral committee “We are building the future of the community”. The regular election in October 2018 led to the following result.

  • Mirosław Szymanek (Election Committee “We are building the future of the community”) 79.9% of the vote
  • Piotr Kucera ( Prawo i Sprawiedliwość ) 20.1% of the vote

So Szymanek was re-elected as community leader in the first ballot.

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members and is directly elected by the population in single-person constituencies. The 2018 municipal council election led to the following result:

  • Election committee “We are building the future of the community” 64.9% of the votes, 14 seats
  • Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS) 34.2% of the votes, 1 seat
  • Silesian Regional Party 0.9% of the vote, no seat

coat of arms

The current coat of arms has been used since 2000. It is made up of three parts. Each of these parts stands for a Sołectwo ( Schulzenamt ) for Mszana stands the bell, for Połomia stands for the heart and for Gogołowa stands the tree.

Town twinning

local community

Mszana Municipal Office

geography

The municipality has an area of ​​31.32 km². 74% of the municipal area is used for agriculture, 7% is covered with forest.

Sołectwo

The Sołectwo ( Schulzenämter ) Gogołowa, Mszana and Połomia belong to the municipality .

Economy and Transport

Droga wojewódzka 930 ( DW930 ) and DW933 run through the municipality . The Autostrada A1 has been built by the municipality since 2008 (completion April 2012).

Web links

Commons : Mszana  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on July 6, 2017
  2. 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 .
  3. Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF; 802 kB)
  4. ^ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 28, 2020.
  5. ^ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on August 28, 2020.
  6. regioset.pl ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (pl / en) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.regioset.pl