Siechnice

Siechnice
	Siechnice
	Siechnice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lower Silesia
Powiat :	Wroclaw
Area :	15.63 km²
Geographic location :	51 ° 15 ' N , 17 ° 4' E Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '5 " N , 17 ° 3' 35" E
Residents :	8113 ; (June 30, 2019)
Postal code :	55-010
Telephone code :	(+48) 71
License plate :	DWR
Economy and Transport
Rail route :	Jelcz-Laskowice – Wroclaw
	Brzeg – Wroclaw ; Święta Katarzyna station and Zębice Wrocławskie station
Next international airport :	Wroclaw
Gmina
Gminatype:	Urban and rural municipality
Gmina structure:	18 school offices
Surface:	98.57 km²
Residents:	22,396 ; (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density :	227 inhabitants / km²
Community number ( GUS ):	0223083
Administration (as of 2010)
Mayor :	Milan Usak
Address:	; ul.Jana Pawła II 12 55-010 Święta Katarzyna
Website :	www.siechnice.gmina.pl
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Siechnice ( German Tschechnitz , 1936–1945 Kraftborn ) is a town and seat of the town and country municipality of the same name in the powiat Wrocławski ( Breslau district ) of the Polish Voivodeship of Lower Silesia .

Geographical location

The city is located in Lower Silesia , southeast of the city of Wroclaw and in its immediate vicinity.

history

The village Tschechnitz that in 1936 power Born was renamed ( "Germanized" after Nazi ideology), was until the end of World War II, a village to the district of Wroclaw in the district Breslau the Prussian province of Silesia in the German Reich belonged.

In 1910 the energy supply company Elektrizitätswerk Schlesien AG built a power plant in Tschechnitz, and there was also a production site for the chemical company Elektrochemische Werke Breslau , a subsidiary of Dr. Alexander Wacker Society for Electrochemical Industry (Munich).

City Hall
Marienkirche
high school
Fire brigade headquarters

The region with the village was occupied by the Red Army in the spring of 1945 . In the summer of 1945 the village, like almost all of Silesia, was placed under Polish administration by the Soviet occupying power . Poland introduced the place name Siechnice for Kraftborn . As far as the German residents had not fled, they were subsequently expelled from Tschechnitz by the local Polish administrative authority .

The village was elevated to a city in 1997.

Population development

year	Residents	Remarks
1933	1,464
1939	1,949

local community

The town and rural community ( gmina miejsko-wiejska ) includes the town of Siechnice and another 18 districts with a Schulzenamt .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b 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 .
↑ George Hallama (Ed.): Silesia. (= Germany's urban development ) DARI-Verlag, Berlin 1925.
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. sch_breslau.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[L_ludnosc_stan_struktura_30-06-2019-1] 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] George Hallama (Ed.): Silesia. (= Germany's urban development ) DARI-Verlag, Berlin 1925.

[MR-3] A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. sch_breslau.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).