Wilcze Gardło

Wilcze Gardło
	Wilcze Gardło
	Wilcze Gardło
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
Powiat :	Gliwice
Geographic location :	50 ° 16 ' N , 18 ° 34' E Coordinates: 50 ° 15 '34 " N , 18 ° 34' 17" E
Residents :
Postal code :	44-100 to 44-164
Telephone code :	(+48) 32
License plate :	SG
Economy and Transport
Street :	A4 Gliwice – Ostropa
Next international airport :	Katowice Airport
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Wilcze Gardło (German Faith Place ) is a district of Gliwice in Poland. It is located on the southwestern outskirts, about eight kilometers from the city center and one and a half kilometers south of the Gliwice-Ostropa exit on the A4 autostrada .

geography

The gatehouse

Residential houses

The sports field in the center of the village

Neighboring towns are Kolonia Leśna in the north, Żernica in the east, Smolnica in the south and Sośnicowice in the west.

history

In the corridors of the village of Eichenkamp (until 1936: Smolnitz) near Gleiwitz in Upper Silesia , the SA-Siedlung Eichenkamp, a housing estate for members of the SA and SS , was built between 1937 and 1941 in a forest area south of Ostropa according to the plans of the Beuthen architect Rudolf Fischer . in 1939 only 26 people lived. During the Second World War , the settlement was completed and occupied. After the completion of the north-eastern square, the system was raised to the new community of Glaubensstatt on April 1, 1941 with a total of 63.7353 hectares of the districts Im Dorfe and Nördlich von Dorfe of the municipality of Eichenkamp .

The core of the square settlement with a length of 750 m was a decentralized square measuring 100 × 150 m, from which a road led to the main southern axis. The complex was traversed by two main roads running at right angles to each other, which were laid out on the western and southern edges. From these main streets cross streets led into the interior.

The community of Glaubensstatt at that time was the seat of the NS Volkspflegeschule Glaubensstatt, which was evacuated on January 21, 1945 because of the war.

After the end of the Second World War, the area became Polish, the residents who had moved in shortly before had already left the place of faith when the front approached. In the vacant settlement, which the Polish residents of the neighboring villages called Wilcze Gardło (in German Wolfsrachen ), Polish miners families from Lorraine , who were expelled from France and returned to Poland, were settled in 1948 . The popular name Wilcze Gardło became the official place name and in 1952 the settlement received the status of a municipality. The place became a workers' settlement on the outskirts of the city of Gliwice and its population grew rapidly. On January 1, 1956, Wilcze Gardło received the status of a town-like settlement. In 1961 the place had 1653 inhabitants. In 1970, 1559 people lived in Wilcze Gardło. Until it was incorporated into Gliwice in 1975, the settlement was the smallest municipality in Poland at 0.64 km².

Attractions

Schrotholzkirche St. Bartolomäus in the neighboring village Smolnica

literature

Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical places . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-520-31602-1 .

Web links

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