Gliwice (pronounce: Gliwice.ogg) is a city in southern Poland with 204,820 inhabitants (2002) over Kłodnica river, about 20 km to the west from Katowice. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Katowice Voivodship (1975-1998).
Education
Gliwice is a hometown of
- Silesian Technical University (Politechnika Śląska)
- Akademia Polonijna in Częstochowa , branch in Gliwice
- Polish Academy of Sciences PAN:
- Instytut Informatyki Teoretycznej i Stosowanej,
- Instytut Inżynierii Chemicznej oraz
- Zakład Carbochemii.
Sports
Famous people
Politics
Bytom/Gliwice/Zabrze constituency
Members of Parliament (Sejm) elected from Bytom/Gliwice/Zabrze constituency
- Chojnacki Jan, SLD-UP
- Dulias Stanisław, Samoobrona
- Gałażewski Andrzej, PO
- Janik Ewa, SLD-UP
- Kubica Józef, SLD-UP
- Martyniuk Wacław, SLD-UP
- Okoński Wiesław, SLD-UP
- Szarama Wojciech, PiS
- Szumilas Krystyna, PO
- Widuch Marek, SLD-UP
Municipal politics
to be written yet
History
The history section is based on an outdated article from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. Feel free to make improvements and corrections
Gliwice was a German town (Gleiwitz), in the Prussian province
of Silesia, over Klodnitz river, and on a railway between Opole and Krakow,
40 m. S.E. of the former town. Pop. (1875) 14,156; (1905) 61,324. As of 1911 it
possessed two Protestant and four Roman Catholic churches, a synagogue,
a mining school, a convent, a hospital, two orphanages, and
barracks. Gleiwitz was the centre of the mining industry of Upper
Silesia. Besides the royal foundry, with which were connected machine
manufactories and boilerworks, there were other foundries, meal mills and
manufactories of wire, gas pipes, cement and paper.
A staged attack on a radio station in Gleiwitz on August 31, 1939 served as a pretext for Nazi Germany to invade Poland, thus starting World War II.
Buildings
The Aerial tower of "Sender Gleiwitz" (Radiostacja Gliwicka), the Radio Tower Gliwice is the only remaining radio tower of wood construction in the world and with a height of 118 metres is the tallest construction made out of wood, which exists nowadays on earth.
Literature
- B. Nietsche, Geschichte der Stadt Gleiwitz (1886)
- Seidel, Die königliche Eisengiesserei zu Gleiwitz (Berlin, 1896)
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Last updated: 10-12-2005 00:35:46
