Radzionków
Radzionków [ raʥɔnkuf ] ( German Radzionkau, in Silesia also Cidry ), is an industrial city with about 17,000 inhabitants in Poland. It is located seven kilometers north of Bytom ( Bytom ) in the powiat tarnogórski, Silesian Voivodeship.
History
The village Radzionkau in Beuthener country in which is detectable in the Middle Ages mining since 1326, was a vicarage. This mention is also the first written evidence of the place.
From the 18th century it gained importance by reducing calamine ( zinc ore ). The mining company Georg von Giesche 's heirs in the following years the largest companies of the place. In 1868, Radzionkau a railroad to Tarnowitz and Bytom.
Between 1871 and 1877 was also a coal mine called Radzionkau in operation, as well as iron ore and limestone were promoted. Giesche built in 1883 a zinc smelter and a little later a roaster for the treatment of sphalerite.
In 1922 the place in the circle Tarnowitz to Poland.
Radzionków received city rights in 1951 on July 28. On 1 July 1975, the city was incorporated into Bytom.
The mines in Radzionków were shut down on 31 December 1996, so went the long mining tradition to an end and 3,000 miners lost their jobs. Since that time the population of the city is rapidly declining.
January 1, 1998 Radzionków regained independence than city.
Population Development
Twin Cities
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