Powiat Opolski

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Powiat Opolski
Coat of arms of Powiat Opolski Location of the Powiat Opolski
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
County town : Opole
Area : 1,586.82 km 2
Residents : 123,487 (June 30, 2019)
Population density : 78 inhabitants / km 2
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OPO
Circle structure
Municipalities : 0
Urban and rural communities : 4th
Rural communities : 9
Starostei (as of 2014)
Starost : Henryk Lakwa
Address:
ul.Piastowska 14 45-082 Opole
Website : www.powiatopolski.pl

The Powiat Opolski is a powiat (district) in the Polish Voivodeship Opole (Oppeln) . The powiat has 135,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​1587 square kilometers.

geography

The powiat encloses the district town of Opole (Oppeln) , which does not belong to it, but remains independent. Neighboring powiate in the north are Namysłów and Kluczbork , in the east Olesno and Strzelce Opolskie , in the south Krapkowice , Prudnik , Nysa and in the west Brzeg .

history

In 2016 it was decided that several places from the neighboring communities of the city of Opole should be incorporated. They left the district on January 1, 2017.

cities and communes

The communities in Powiat Opolski

The powiat comprises thirteen municipalities, including four urban and rural municipalities - Niemodlin , Ozimek , Proskau and Tułowice , whose main towns of the same name have municipal rights - and nine rural municipalities.

Most of the communities in the Powiat are officially bilingual (Polish and German). The German population makes up over twenty percent in these communities. The municipalities of Niemodlin and Tułowice have hardly any residents of German descent, the municipalities of Ozimek and Dąbrowa have a mixed population, but their municipal councils have not yet applied for or voted against the introduction of minority rights.

Urban-and-rural parishes

Proskauer Castle

Rural communities

politics

The district administration is headed by a starost . Currently this is Henryk Lakwa, who belongs to the German minority.

District council

The district council consists of 23 members who are elected by the population. The 2018 elections brought the following results:

Partner circles

gallery

Web links

Commons : Powiat Opolski  - collection of images, 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 .
  2. VDG: Enlargement of Opole now fact ( memento of the original from January 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vdg.pl
  3. ^ Result on the website of the election commission, accessed on July 27, 2020.