Gliwice
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Gliwice (pronounce: Missing image
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[gli'viʦε]) 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).
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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
- Piast Gliwice - men's football team playing in 2nd league 2003/2004 and 2004/2005)
- Carbo Gliwice - men's football team,
- Sośnica Gliwice - women's handball team playing in Polish Ekstraklasa Women's Handball League: 10th place in 2003/2004 season.
Famous people
- Horst Bienek, an author of novels about Upper Silesia
- Tadeusz Rozewicz, poet and writer
- Jerzy Buzek, professor of chemistry, prime minister of Poland 1997-2001, MEP since 2004
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The history section is based on an outdated article from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.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)