Mikołów

Mikołów [m ʲ i'kɔu̯uf ] ( German: Nikolai, Nicolai to 1911, Upper Silesia: Mikołůw ) is a town ( powiat Mikołowski ) in Silesia, Poland.

Geography

Mikołów located 10 km south-west of Katowice to the Jamna. The municipality has a surface area of 78.89 km ² of which 56% is used for agriculture. 28 % of the area is covered by forest.

History

The first documentary mention of the city as Miculow dates from 1222. 1336 Mikołów fell to the Kingdom of Bohemia. In 1545 the town was granted market rights. 1547 Mikołów received its town charter. In 1645 raged in Mikołów a devastating city fire, another followed on 20 May in 1794. 1742, the city came to Prussia.

In 1856 a railway station was built in the city. In 1874, the Polish publisher Karol Miarka opened a print shop in the town. July 22, 1911, the spelling of the name Nicolai Nikolai was changed. In the plebiscite in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921 were 3,059 votes in Nikolai, or 55.7 % of the valid votes to remain with Germany and delivered 2,434 for connection to Poland. Since the voting district Pless, which belonged to the city, however, had voted overwhelmingly in favor of Poland, the city was ceded Nikolai June 28, 1922 as Mikołów to Poland. Between 1922 and 1939 the city was one of the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship. In the Polish campaign in September 1939 Mikołów was occupied by the German Wehrmacht, in January 1945, then by the Red Army.

From 1975 to 1998 Mikołów belonged to the Province of Katowice.

Education

Mikołów has 12 kindergartens ( Przedszkole ), 9 primary schools ( SzkoĹ podstawowa ), three middle schools ( gimnazjum ) and two high schools ( liceum ogólnokształcące ) and a school center with a vocational school ( liceum profilowane ), vocational high school ( pilot plant ) and basic vocational school ( zasadnicza szkoła zawodowa ).

Traffic

Through the city's Droga Krajowa run 44 and Droga Krajowa 81 and Droga DW 927 and DW 928 wojewódzka Also, the railway runs 140 of Nędza to Katowice through the city.

Twin Cities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Alexander Leopold von Erichsen ( born May 10, 1787; † February 2, 1876 ) - German Lieutenant General
  • Hermann dust (* March 21, 1856, † September 2, 1904 ) - German jurist
  • Konstantin Wolny ( born April 5, 1877 Today's district Bujakow; † November 9, 1940 ) - Attorney, Commissioner of the 1st Poland Uprising
  • Rafał Wojaczek (December 6, 1945, † May 11, 1971 ) - Polish poet
  • Izabela Kloc ( born May 8, 1963) - Polish politician and Member of the Sejm
  • Georg Zeumer (* March 7, 1890, † June 17, 1917 ) - German pilot before and during the First World War

References

Voivodeship (Poland) Vehicle registration plates of Poland Gmina Printer (publishing) Education in Poland
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