Mysłowice
Mysłowice [ mɨswɔv iʦe ʲ ] ( German: Myslowitz ) is a county-level city on the Przemsa in Silesia in Poland. It is approximately 9 km east of Katowice at the mouth of the whites in the Black Przemsa the so-called Dreikaisereck and has around 75,000 inhabitants.
- 3.1 Structures
- 3.2 Music
- 3.3 Museums
- 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 5.2 freeman
- 6.1 Literature
- 6.2 External links
- 6.3 footnotes
Boroughs
The eastern boundary of the urban area is the Przemsa which also separates the Upper Silesia of Lesser Poland. The city Mysłowice divided into the following districts:
- Bonczyk
- Brzezinka ( Birkental )
- Brzęczkowice ( Brzenskowitz )
- Cmok ( Czmok )
- Dziećkowice ( Dzietzkowitz )
- Janow Miejski ( Janow )
- Kosztowy ( Kosztow )
- Krasowy ( Krassow )
- Larysz ( Heidowisna )
- Ławki ( Lawek )
- Morgi ( morning)
- Piasek ( piossek )
- Słupna ( Słupna )
- Stare Miasto ( Old Town)
- Śródmieście ( downtown)
- Wesoła ( Wessolla )
History
The first written mention comes from 1360. At that time the city belonged to the Duchy of Ratibor in the Kingdom of Bohemia. Due to its location on the Przemsa it was for centuries the border city towards the Kingdom of Poland. Later Myslowitz seat of caste domination Myslowitz - Katowice, whose owner was, among other things, the family of Tiele - Winckler. The rule was to the end of the 19th century in the possession of some privileges, which included the mining rights.
In 1742 became Prussian with the largest part of Silesia also Myslowitz. After Russia had received in 1815 at the Congress Kingdom of Poland and Austria in 1846 the Free State annexed Cracow, met until 1918 at Myslowitz the borders of Prussia, Austria and Russia together. After German unification in 1871, the point Dreikaisereck was called.
As a result of the Prussian cities reform of the place in 1808 was ( with around 400 inhabitants ) classified as a market town. The houses of the city and the town hall were built of wood meal. An upheaval brought the establishment of the coal mines Amalie Good and Good expectancy and the zinc plant Amalienhütte 1825, but also cross-border trade with Poland on the Przemsa wooden bridge. 1853, the new ring was south of the city proper is applied. The city rights were awarded again in 1862. Until 1818 the town belonged to the Plesser circles and came out to the district of Bytom, 1873 finally to the district of Katowice.
In the Polish campaign in September 1939 Mysłowice was occupied by the Wehrmacht and reconnected the German Reich. Shortly thereafter, the Myslowitz synagogue was destroyed. Between 1943 and 1945 (district Wesoła today ) was in the concentration camp Fürstengrube Fürstengrube as a satellite camp of KZ Auschwitz. The inmates were evacuated on January 19, 1945, the concentration camp Fürstengrube - death march in front of the advancing Red Army.
The incorporations of 1975, inter alia, of Kosztowy have increased the surface to 66 km ² and the population at 61,700. In 1977 Imielin and Chelm Slaski were incorporated, which, however, in 1995, were once again independent.
Population Development
The population figures of Mysłowice after the relevant territorial status ( without lock Myslowitz ):
Culture and sights
Structures
Among the attractions of the city, the Parish Church belongs birth ( Narodzenia Najświętszej Marii Panny ) from the 14th century. It was rebuilt in the years 1740-1742 in the Baroque style. Another neo-Gothic reconstruction followed in 1901.
The current to be the oldest church in the city Cross Church ( Sw. Krzyża ) was originally built of wood. It was destroyed in 1807 and then rebuilt in stone in the style of classicism.
The town hall is from the year 1867.
Music
In 1992, the rock band Myslovitz was founded in Mysłowice.
Museums
- Polish Central Fire Museum
Traffic
The public transport is a connection to the network of the Upper Silesian tram.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Max Brown ( zoologist ) ( 1850-1930 )
- August Hlond ( born July 5, 1881, today's district Brzęczkowice, † October 22, 1948 ) - Primate of Poland
- Rose Eisner - Marquart (* 1886) - painter and graphic artist
- Max Walter ( * April 1, 1899, † 1946) - musician and composer
- Franz Schwerdtfeger (* March 11, 1898, † October 25, 1961 ) - German engineer and university teacher
- Paul Sornik (* April 26, 1900; † 21 March 1982) - German educator and politician (GB / BHE GDP)
- Albert Norden (* December 4, 1904; † 30 May 1982) - GDR politicians
- Heinz Piest (* October 15, 1906 ) - German engineer and university teacher
- Marian Kudera (* August 5, 1923; † July 19, 1944 ) - resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Ireneusz Pacula ( born November 16, 1966) - Former Polish- German ice hockey player
Freeman
- Czesław Kwieciński ( born 1943 ), former Polish Ringer