Powiat Gliwicki

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Powiat Gliwicki
Coat of arms of the Powiat Gliwicki Location of the Powiat Gliwicki
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Silesia
County town : Gliwice
Area : 663 km 2
Residents : 115,571 (June 30, 2019)
Population density : 174 inhabitants / km 2
Degree of urbanization : 56.3%
Telephone code : (+48) 32
License plate : SGL
Circle structure
Municipalities : 2
Urban and rural communities : 2
Rural communities : 4th
Starostei (as of 2014)
Starost : Michał Nieszporek
Address:
ul.Zygmunta Starego 17 44-100 Gliwice
Website : www.powiatgliwicki.pl

The powiat Gliwicki is a powiat ( district ) in the Polish Voivodeship of Silesia . The district has an area of ​​663 km² with around 110,000 inhabitants. It is located west of the district town Gliwice , which does not belong to it.

Eight parishes belong to the powiat . Of these, four municipalities are rural municipalities, two urban municipalities and two urban / rural municipalities.

The powiat was created in its current form on January 1, 1999, after the Polish administrative reform. The administrative headquarters are in Gliwice. The A4 motorway runs through the Powiat .

Partnerships exist u. a. with the districts of Calw and Central Saxony (formerly Freiberg) in Germany, Denbighshire in Wales and the Powiat Pucki in Kashubia .

Communities

The Gliwice Canal
Town hall in Pyskowice

The powiat comprises two urban parishes, two urban and rural parishes and four rural parishes:

Boroughs

Urban and rural communities

Rural communities

geography

The district is located in the west of the Silesian Voivodeship and centrally in Upper Silesia .

The rivers Klodnitz and Drama and the Gliwice Canal flow through the district .

Neighboring circles

The powiat Gliwicki borders on the powiat Tarnogórski , the city of Gliwice (Gliwice) , the city of Zabrze (Hindenburg OS) , the powiat Mikołowski , the city of Ruda Śląska , the city of Rybnik , powiat Rybnicki and the powiat Raciborski in the Silesian Voivodeship , the powiat Strzelecki and the Powiat Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski in the Opole Voivodeship .

history

Tost-Gleiwitz district, 1905
See also: Tost-Gleiwitz district

After the district of Tost-Gleiwitz came under Polish administration in 1945, it became the powiat Gliwicki ( district of Gleiwitz ), and its area was retained. The powiat was from now on in the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950, after the dissolution of the Silesian Voivodeship, he joined the Katowice Voivodeship . The municipality Tworóg came in 1951 to the powiat Tarnogórski . 1964 came Łabędy (Laband) and Czechowice (Schechowitz) to the independent city of Gliwice . In 1975 all powiate were dissolved in Poland and instead of this the administration was transferred to the municipalities.

On January 1, 1999, after the administrative reform, today's powiat Gliwicki was created in a slightly different form with two municipalities, two urban / rural municipalities and four rural municipalities in the newly established Silesian Voivodeship . The county seat was again Gliwice.

population

Evangelical Peter and Paul Church in Pyskowice

Religions

In addition to the Catholic parishes, there are also a number of Protestant churches and chapels in the powiat. The powiat Gliwicki belongs to the Catholic diocese of Gliwice in the ecclesiastical province of Katowice and the Protestant diocese of Katowice .

Population development

Of the 115,476 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2005) of the powiat, 64,862 people lived in a city and 50,614 in the country.

  • 1999 - 125 826
  • 2000 - 125 120
  • 2001 - 123 157
  • 2002 - 116 919
  • 2003 - 116 244
  • 2004 - 115 657
  • 2005 - 115 476

politics

Flag of the Powiat Gliwicki
The former coat of arms of the Powiat Gliwicki (until August 2006)

coat of arms

Since August 2006

The current coat of arms of the Powiat Gliwicki consists of the golden eagle of the coat of arms of the Silesian Voivodeship and three white towers on a blue background.

Until August 2006

A special feature in Upper Silesia is the Upper Silesian yellow eagle on a blue background, which is found on the left and right halves of the majority of Upper Silesian coats of arms. And so the eagle is also present on the coat of arms of the Powiat as an exact copy of the voivodeship eagle. However, this is not only located on the left half, but extends the full width of the coat of arms. Below it is a hammer and an ear of wheat, symbols of the great importance of agriculture and coal mining in the powiat.

Partnerships

The powiat maintains partnerships with:

Culture and sights

Castle in Pławniowice
The castle in Toszek
Park in Pławniowice

Buildings

Castles and Palaces

Parks

  • Park of the chateau in Pławniowice
  • Park in Pyskowice

Natural monuments

In the book "The Most Important Natural Monuments of Upper Silesia" from 1910, natural monuments are listed in 18 places in the then Tost-Gleiwitz district. These include a pine tree with a circumference of 3 meters in the pheasantry in Tost ( Toszek ), a linden tree with a circumference of 6.5 meters in Potemba, in Dombrowka the " Big Hanne", a pine with a circumference of 2.60 meters and a height of 36 meters , and the Silvaeiche with a circumference of 5.50 meters.

traffic

Lock in Rudziniec

The A4 motorway , European route 40 and the Gliwice Canal run through the Powiat .

The following train stations are located in the Gliwicki Powiat: Kotulin , Ligota Toszecka , Paczyna , Pyskowice , Rzeczyce Śląskie, Rudzieniec Gliwicki , Taciszów and Toszek

The closest international airport is Katowice Airport .

Web links

Commons : Powiat gliwicki  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

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 .