Administrative Court (Gliwice)
The Voivodeship Administrative Court in Gliwice is located at ul. Prymasa Stefana Wyszyńskiego 2 (formerly Markgrafenstraße 2 , now ul. Strzody and ul. Konstytucji ). Until 1945 the building was the seat of the Count von Ballestrem's goods management and the corporate management.
history
The office building on what was then Königsplatz (later Markgrafenstrasse) was completed in 1923 and served as the headquarters for the Countess von Ballestrem's property management. This moved from Ruda to Gleiwitz after Ruda fell to Poland in 1922. In Gleiwitz the administration of the goods and that of the industrial estate were merged. The company's new building in Gleiwitz was built according to designs by the government master builder Hans von Pöllnitz. On the facade above the entrance there are four worker sculptures by the sculptor Josef Limburg (1874–1955). They symbolize agriculture, mining, metallurgy and forestry. The Ballestrems were active in these four branches of industry.
After the city of Gliwice was taken over by the Polish administration in 1945, the Ballestrems building was confiscated (expropriated) and was handed over to the Gliwickie Zjednoczenie Przemysłu węglowego (Gliwickie Coal Industry Association) in early March 1945. After that, the “Biuro Projektów Górniczych” (mining project office) was located in the building.
Since 1997 the building has been the seat of the Administrative Court of the Silesian Voivodeship.
Web links
- Administrative court website
- The Gleiwitz Goods Directorate on the Ballestrem family's website
- Old pictures of the building
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal "Oberschlesien im Bild": Issue 1, 1924
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 47.7 " N , 18 ° 40 ′ 4.2" E