Tarnowskie Góry

Tarnów Góra ( German: Tarnowitz, Czech Tarnovské Hory ) is an Upper Silesian city in Silesia in southern Poland - located 25 km north of Katowice, about 170 kilometers southeast of Wrocław, 250 km south-west of the state capital Warsaw. Here is the largest marshalling yard in Poland.

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Boroughs

  • Bobrowniki Śląskie ( Bobrownik )
  • Lasowice (lasso joke)
  • Opatowice ( Opattowitz )
  • Jana Osada ( Gallows Hill )
  • Pniowiec ( Pniowitz )
  • Repty Śląskie ( Repten )
  • Rybna ( Rybna )
  • Sowice ( Sowitz )
  • Stare Tarnowice (Alt Tarnowitz )
  • Strzybnica ( Friedrichshütte )
  • Śródmieście (city center with old city Tarnowitz )

History

The town dates back to the discovery of silver deposits in the area and their exploitation. 1526 received Tarnowitz from Opole Duke Johann II and George of Brandenburg -Ansbach mountain freedom. For the same year probably comes the municipal law. On July 25, 1562 gave Georg Friedrich I of Brandenburg -Ansbach - Kulmbach the town's coat of arms and in use today.

In Tarnowitz first steam engine was taken (the third on the European continent ) into operation on January 19, 1788 by the Kingdom of Prussia. She drove to the drainage system of the Tarnowitzer ore mines.

1873 Circle Tarnowitz was spun off from the circle Bytom whose circle city Tarnowitz was. Even if the referendum in Upper Silesia in March 1921 in Tarnowitz 7,451, or 85.2 percent of the valid votes were cast to remain with Germany, the city fell in 1922 to Poland and became county seat of powiat tarnogórski in the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship.

Twinning

  • Bernburg (Saale ), Germany, since 1968
  • Kutna Hora, Czech Republic, since 2003
  • Méricourt, France, since the 1980s
  • Békéscsaba, Hungary, since 1995

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Karl Wilhelm Bouterwek ( born August 30, 1809 † December 22, 1868 ), high school principal and historian
  • Carl Wernicke ( born May 15, 1848 † June 15, 1905 ), a neurologist and psychiatrist
  • Theophil Krolik (* April 27, 1851, † 1906), member of the Reichstag ( center )
  • Max Kayser (* May 9, 1853, † March 29, 1888 ), editor and social democratic politician
  • Max Wall (b. July 22, 1868; † July 1, 1929 ), Austrian engineer
  • Erich Przybyllok (* June 30, 1880, † September 11, 1954 ), astronomer
  • Oskar Niemczyk (* January 8, 1886, † November 22, 1961 ), and Geodetic Geopghysiker
  • Otto Walter ( * October 2, 1902, † May 8 1983 ) politician ( KPD)
  • John Gorski (* February 28, 1910, † 11 January 1995), politician ( CDU)
  • Erich Scholz ( born May 15, 1911 † 2 October 2000), architect and author
  • Jerzy Kotowski (* July 23, 1925, † May 17, 1979 ), Polish Animation Filmmaker
  • Zbigniew Kaczmarek ( born June 21, 1946), Polish weightlifter
  • Józef Wandzik ( born August 13, 1963), Polish footballer
  • Adam Marian Pete (* 1966), German - Polish painter, illustrator, poet and performer
  • Martin Max ( born August 7, 1968), German football player
  • Tomasz Głogowski (born 30 December 1974), Polish politician ( Platforma Obywatelska )
  • Gliwa Sylwia ( born June 7, 1978), Polish actress
  • Lucjan Karasiewicz (* July 10, 1979 ), Polish politician

Have worked on site

  • Michatz Leopold (1885-1958), 1922-1934 Mayor of Tarnowitz

References

Voivodeship (Poland) Vehicle registration plates of Poland Lubliniec Kluczbork Gmina Wrocław Jan II the Good George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach Silesian Voivodeship (1920–39) Zbigniew Tadeusz Kaczmarek
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