Pilchowice

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Pilchowice
Pilchowice coat of arms
Pilchowice (Poland)
Pilchowice
Pilchowice
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Silesia
Powiat : Gliwice
Area : 13.39  km²
Geographic location : 50 ° 22 '  N , 18 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '42 "  N , 18 ° 56' 31"  E
Residents : 2906 (Jan. 2006)
Postal code : 44-145
Telephone code : (+48) 32
License plate : SGL
Economy and Transport
Street : Gliwice - Racibórz
Next international airport : Katowice
Gmina
Gminatype: Rural community
Gmina structure: 7 localities
7 school offices
Surface: 68.95 km²
Residents: 11,945
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 173 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 2405042
Administration (as of 2018)
Mayor : Maciej Gogulla
Address: ul.Damrota 6
44-145 Pilchowice
Website : www.pilchowice.pl



Pilchowice ( German Pilchowitz , from 1936 to 1945 Bilchengrund ) is a village and seat of the rural municipality of the same name in the Silesian Voivodeship , Powiat Gliwicki in Poland .

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1305. In 1867, a teachers' college was set up in the former Dominial Castle.

Attractions

The late Baroque building of the Catholic parish church of St. Johannes Beheading is aligned with its front tower on the westward road to Stanitz and was donated by Count Emanuel von Wengersky, built between 1779 and 1780 and renovated in 1912. The main altar with an altar panel of the beheading of John the Baptist and the pulpit date from the time it was built . To the east of the church extends the former monastery of the Merciful Brothers , a neo-Gothic building complex from the 19th century, in which a clinic is now set up.

Gmina

The rural community ( gmina wiejska ) Pilchowice is divided into seven districts ( sołectwo ):

  • Kuźnia Nieborowska ( Nieborowitz Hammer )
  • Leboszowice ( Leboschowitz )
  • Nieborowice ( Nieborowitz )
  • Pilchowice ( Pilchowitz )
  • Stanica ( Stanitz )
  • Wilcza
  • Żernica ( German Zernitz )

The Birawka ( Bierawka ) flows through the municipality . A community partnership with Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf has existed since 2012 .

literature

  • Johannes Chrząszcz : Festschrift for the centenary of the Monastery of the Brothers of Mercy in Pilchowitz 1814 to 1914 (Schlesische Volkszeitung, printer and publisher, Wroclaw, 1914) (djvu file)

Web links

Footnotes

  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 .