Zawadzkie

Zawadzkie [ zavat͡skjɛ ] ( German Zawadzki, 1936-45: Andreas hut) is a city and seat of the urban and rural community in the southern part of Poland. It is located about 40 kilometers southeast of Opole and 55 kilometers northwest of Katowice on the river Malapane. It belongs to the district of Opole Voivodeship Strzelce. The town has 8,100 inhabitants, the eponymous municipality 13,200.

  • 3.1 Twin towns

History

The establishment of Zawadzki was in the heyday of the Upper Silesian iron smelting along the Malapane. Andreas Graf von Renard on large Strehlitz, the owner of the huts in Kolonnowska and Vossowska, made ​​in 1836 in its forests another fresh cottage built with factory settlement, which was named after its chief representative of Franz Zawadzki the Zawadzkiwerk. 1841 cottage has been extended to a steel mill. To supply the huts and hammers with water power of the 8 km long hut channel that supplied except the Zawadzkiwerk also Kolonnowska and Vossowska arose. The workers were recruited from the western parts of Prussia. This resulted in Zawadzki, in Kolonnowska and Kruppamühle, a Protestant Diaspora in the otherwise Catholic Upper Silesia.

1855 acquired the mining and smelting company Minerva the Zawadzkiwerk by Renard. Under the Minerva Zawadzki, as the work has been called since 1857, Kolonnowska overtook in importance as a cabin site.

Since 1856 the city had completed a railway connection to Opole, 1858 was the route to Tarnowitz.

1871, the Upper Silesian railway needs AG became the owner of the work.

In the plebiscite in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921 voted in Zawadzki 1156 voters ( 59.6 percent) to remain in Germany and 778 voters ( 40.1 percent) for an assignment to Poland. The turnout was 98.5 per cent, were four invalid votes ( 0.2 percent ) were counted.

In the May 3, 1921 by Wojciech Korfanty initiated third Polish Usurpantenaufstand found in Zawadzki heavy fighting took place. As a result of the partition of Upper Silesia in 1922 suffered the work serious economic losses. It was thus suddenly on the edge of the German Reich, not five miles from the Polish border.

In 1936, the place in part of the renaming wave of Slavic place names in Silesia during the Nazi era the name Andreas hut. The cabin had in years 1944 4.700 employees.

By 1945, Andreas hut belonged to the Landkreis Groß Strehlitz and was Protestant vicarage. In 1945 the place to Poland.

Since 1962 Zawadzkie is a city.

Former towns

In the area of today's Zawadzkie is formerly were the places Böhme, Kunten (later Schwarzweg ) Malepartus, Neuwiese, Marienrode, Philippolis, Schwierkle (later spruce), Palestine (from September 4, 1936 Fabrikstraße ), Redwine (later Wilhelmsruh ) and Eichhorst.

Population Development

Population development of the city Zawadzkie

Attractions

  • The Protestant church back to 1887
  • The Catholic Church from 1895
  • Castle Kunten from 1856
  • The Hüttensee

Policy

Twin Cities

  • Bockenem in Germany - The Partnerschaftsakt was signed in 2002
  • Dubnica nad Váhom, Slovakia
  • Otrokovice, Czech Republic
  • Chortkiv, Ukraine
  • Uebigau, Germany

Footnotes

Kielcza ( Keltsch ) | Zawadzkie ( Zawadzki ) | Żędowice ( Sandowitz )

Voivodeship (Poland) Powiat Strzelce County Vehicle registration plates of Poland Mała Panew Tarnowskie Góry
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