Sosnowiec
? Sosnowiec [ sɔsnɔv ʲ ɛʦ ] listen / i ( German Sosnowiec ) is a Polish city on the Black Przemsa in Silesia - about 10 km east of the regional capital Katowice and 65 km north-west of Krakow, located in the east of the Upper Silesian industrial district, as the center of the historical region Zagłębie Dąbrowskie ( German Dombrowa brazier ). Industries are, inter alia, the metal and textile processing.
- 3.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 3.2 freeman
- 4.1 External links
- 4.2 footnotes
History
1228 Sosnowiec was first mentioned in a document.
It was and remained until the dissolution of Poland Polish in the Third Partition of Poland (1795 ). It was then up to the defeat of Prussia by Napoleon to Prussia, since 1807 part of the Duchy of Warsaw was founded by Napoleon ( in personal union with Saxony) and since the Treaty of Kalisch ( antinapoleonische agreement between Prussia and Russia) in 1813 actually Russian. The Congress of Vienna it was to the newly founded Kingdom of Poland, but that was only apparently autonomous and in 1831 officially a province of the Russian Empire.
With the re-establishment of Poland 1916/1918 it became Polish again.
World War II
After the invasion of Poland, the Polish city district Sosnowiec previously the city's name was on September 13, 1939 represents the German border protection section command 3, head of the Civil Administration in Katowice Voivodeship of Kielce and Germanized in Sosnowiec. On 3 October 1939, the Border Patrol section command was renamed in Section 3 Upper Silesia.
To October 10, 1939 Sosnowiec came to Krakow Military District (Boundary southern section ) and was one of 26 October 1939, initially to the General Government for the occupied Polish territories. Sosnowiec was incorporated on 20 November 1939 in the German Empire and now belonged to the governmental district Katowice in the Prussian province of Silesia. To January 1, 1940 Sosnowiec was placed under the German church order of 30 January 1935 which provided for the enforcement of the principle leaders at the community level; same time, the city was confirmed as a city circle.
Sosnowiec was in October 1940 headquarters of the Organization Schmelt, which was set up by Himmler " to capture and direct the foreign nationalist labor input in Upper Silesia ." Many businesses had settled there in which Jewish forced laborers for the defense had to work. In August 1943 30.000 Jews from Sosnowiec and Bendzin were deported to Auschwitz -Birkenau.
After dissolution of the province of Silesia Sosnowiec belonged January 18, 1941 to the occupation by the Red Army in January 1945 for the newly established province of Upper Silesia, then back to Poland.
Others
On June 14, 1999 Pope John Paul II visited the city as part of his trip to Poland.
The public transport is a connection to the network of the Upper Silesian tram.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Paul Godwin (1902-1982), German - Dutch violinist and orchestra leader
- Jan Kiepura (1902-1966), Polish tenor
- Yehiel Feiner (1909-2001), Israeli writer
- Władysław Szpilman (1911-2000), Polish composer and pianist
- Edward Gierek (1913-2001), Polish politician
- Szajnfeld Mendel (1922-2000), Polish- Norwegian metal workers and Holocaust survivor
- Bella Darvi (1926-1971), Polish- French actress
- Shalom Sechvi (1928-2013), Israeli painter and Holocaust survivor
- Elżbieta Pierzchała (born 1954 ), Polish politician
- Anna Śliwińska ( born 1956 ), Polish politician
- Jarosław Pięta ( b. 1964 ), Polish politician
- Eugen Polanski ( born 1986 ), Polish footballer
Freeman
- 2007 - Adam Śmigielski ( 1933-2008 ), Bishop of Sosnowiec