Gmina Praszka

Gmina Praszka
	Gmina Praszka
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Oleski
Geographic location :	51 ° 3 '  N , 18 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '0 "  N , 18 ° 27' 0"  E
Residents :	s. Gmina
Postal code :	46-320
Telephone code :	(+48) 34
License plate :	OOL
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kluczbork - Wieluń
Next international airport :	Katowice
Gmina
Gminatype:	Urban-and-rural parish
Gmina structure:	16 school authorities
Surface:	102.80 km²
Residents:	13,537 (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density :	132 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ):	1608043
Administration (as of 2006)
Mayor :	Jarosław Tkaczyński
Address:	pl. Grunwaldzki 13 46-320 Praszka
Website :	www.praszka.pl

The Gmina Praszka is an urban-and-rural municipality in the powiat Oleski of the Opole Voivodeship in Poland . Its seat is the small town of the same name ( German : Praschkau , older Prauska , Proszka ) with about 7650 inhabitants.

The municipality is located 15 kilometers south of Wieluń on the right bank of the Prosna , which formed the Polish-German border until 1939. Praszka was on the Polish side during the attack on Poland .

structure

In addition to the city that gives it its name, the urban and rural community of Praszka includes 16 other places with a school district office :

Aleksandrów Brzeziny Gana Kowale Kuźniczka Lachowskie Prosna Przedmość

Rosochy Rozterk Skotnica Sołtysy Strojec Szyszków Wierzbie Wygiełdów

Attractions

• Former synagogue in Praszka

Partner communities

• Bogorodczany , Ukraine
• Mutterstadt , Germany

literature

• Praszka , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , p. 612

Individual evidence

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. ↑ Pierer's Universal Lexikon, Volume 13. Altenburg 1861