Wodzisław Śląski

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Wodzisław Śląski
Wodzisław Śląski coat of arms
Wodzisław Śląski (Poland)
Wodzisław Śląski
Wodzisław Śląski
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Silesia
Powiat : Wodzisław Śląski
Area : 49.62  km²
Geographic location : 50 ° 0 ′  N , 18 ° 27 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 18 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 290 m npm
Residents : 47,992
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Postal code : 44-300
Telephone code : (+48) 32
License plate : SWD
Economy and Transport
Street : Gliwice - Ostrava
Next international airport : Katowice
Gmina
Gminatype: Borough
Residents: 47,992
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Community number  ( GUS ): 2415041
Administration (as of 2007)
Mayor : Mieczysław Kieca
Address: ul.Bogumińska 5
44-300 Wodzisław Śląski
Website : www.wodzislaw-slaski.pl



Wodzisław Śląski [ vɔˈd͡ʑiswaf ˈ ɕlɔ̃skʲi ] ( German Loslau ) is a city in the Polish Voivodeship of Silesia .

geography

Loslau southeast of Racibórz on a map from 1905

location

The city is located in the Upper Silesia region at 275 m above sea level. NHN , around 50 kilometers southwest of Katowice and around 25 kilometers north of Ostrava ( Ostrau ) in the immediate vicinity of the Czech border.

City structure

By decision of the City Council on June 28, 1996, the urban area of ​​Wodzisław Śląski was divided into nine districts:

  • Jedłownik Osiedle
  • Jedłownik (Jedlownik) -Turzyczka (Klein Thurze) -Karkoszka (Krausendorf)
  • Kokoszyce (Kokoschütz)
  • Nowe Miasto (New Town)
  • Osiedle XXX-lecia-Piastów-Dąbrówki
  • Radlin II
  • Stare Miasto (old town)
  • Wilchwy (Wilchwa)
  • Zawada

history

Marketplace
Piastów Housing Estate
Loslau around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection
Trinity Church, 14th century

From 1464 to 1483 it was the seat of the then Premyslid Duchy of Loslau . From 1515 the owner of the Loslau rule was a status minor , ie a status without voting rights on the prince days, as opposed to the free class lords .

After the separation of Silesia from Austria in 1742 Loslau became part of Prussia . The town belonged since 1818 to Rybnik in the administrative district of Opole the Prussian province of Silesia .

At the beginning of the 20th century Loslau had a Protestant church, a Catholic church, a synagogue , a pulmonary hospital, a brick factory, beer brewery, cigar factory and was the seat of a local court .

In the referendum held after the First World War on the future state affiliation of the Rybnik district, a majority decided to join Poland , so that most of the district, including the city of Loslau, had to be ceded to Poland in 1921.

Demographics

Population development until 1922
year population Remarks
1742 barely 700 at the time of the separation of Silesia from Austria
1753 768
1780 883
1791 963
1800 1133
1803 1311
1810 1319
1812 1324
1816 1400 thereof 88 Evangelicals, 1120 Catholics, 192 Jews
1820 1367
1825 1559 including 69 Evangelicals, 252 Jews
1830 1695
1821 1373
1840 1990 including 87 Evangelicals, 1582 Catholics, 321 Jews
1850 1776
1855 2277 without Loslau Castle and Vorwerk (48 inhabitants)
1860 2408
1861 2503 with Loslau Castle and Vorwerk, 112 Protestants, 1990 Catholics, 401 Jews
1867 2349 on December 3rd
1871 2401 including 120 Protestants and 450 Jews (1,300 Poles ); According to other data, 2401 inhabitants (on December 1), including 67 Protestants, 2022 Catholics, 303 Jews
1900 2701 mostly Catholics
1905 3126
1910 3493 without castle and Loslau manor district with (on December 1st) 68 inhabitants

traffic

The city is connected to the national road network via the A1 motorway and the DK78 , DW932, DW933 and DW936 roads.

It has a train station on the Bohumín - Chałupki - Wodzisław - Rybnik - Katowice line

Culture

  • Museums Wodzisław, Kubsza 2 street
  • Cinema, WCK Gladbeck Platz
  • Stadium, Bogumińska 8 street

Town twinning

Wodzisław Śląski maintains the following cities partnerships :

sons and daughters of the town

literature

Web links

Commons : Wodzisław Śląski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ↑ a b c Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon . 6th edition, Volume 12, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p. 718 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Wilh. Gottl. Korn, Breslau 1865, p. 774 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Alexander August Mützell and Leopold Krug : New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 5: T – Z , Halle 1823, pp. 328-335, item 409.
  5. ↑ Johann Georg Knie : Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, spots, cities and other places of the royal family. Prussia. Province of Silesia, including the Margraviate of Upper Lusatia, which now belongs entirely to the province, and the County of Glatz; together with the attached evidence of the division of the country into the various branches of civil administration. Melcher, Breslau 1830, p. 965 .
  6. ^ Johann Georg Knie : Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, spots, cities and other places of the royal family. Preusz. Province of Silesia. 2nd Edition. Graß, Barth and Comp., Breslau 1845, pp. 868-869 .
  7. ↑ a b Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Wilh. Gottl. Korn, Breslau 1865, p. 737, paragraph .
  8. ^ A b Royal Statistical Bureau: The municipalities and manor districts of the province of Silesia and their population. Based on the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. Berlin 1874, pp. 350–351, item 1 .
  9. ^ Gustav Neumann : The German Empire in geographical, statistical and topographical relation . Volume 2, GFO Müller, Berlin 1874, pp. 180-181, item 12 .
  10. ↑ a b M. Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006)
  11. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de