Gardawice

Gardawice (German: Gardawitz) is a dzielnica in of Orzesze, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.[1] It was an independent village and in the years 1945-1954 and 1973-1975 it was seat of gmina, which was administratively merged into Orzesze in 1975.[2] It has an area of 7.7 km² and about 1940 inhabitants.[3]

Manor in Gardawice
Map of Orzesze

History

The village existed already in the 14th century.[4]

After World War I in the Upper Silesia plebiscite 419 out of 507 voters in Gardawice voted in favour of joining Poland, against 84 opting for staying in Germany.[5]

In 1945 it became a seat of gmina that encompassed also Królówka, Woszczyce, Zawiść, Zazdrość and Zgoń.

gollark: H.265 and whatnot.
gollark: Patents also make licensing modern video codecs problematic.
gollark: > you have 20 years to sell your creation before it lapses, and in that time people will have improvedPatent messes basically *prevented the development of the entire field of 3D printing* for several decades.
gollark: Kubernetes is some fancy complex software for managing server cluster things.
gollark: Patents need DRASTIC modification.

References
  1. "Statuty sołectw". Retrieved 2015-05-06.
  2. Rozporządzenie Rady Ministrów z dnia 22 maja 1975 r. w sprawie zmiany granic, Dz. U. z 1975 r. Nr 15, poz. 87
  3. "Sołectwa Orzesza". Retrieved 2015-05-06.
  4. "Orzesze. Historia" (in Polish). Retrieved 2015-05-06.
  5. "Results of the Upper Silesia plebiscite in Pless/Pszczyna County" (in German). Archived from the original on 2015-05-02. Retrieved 2015-05-03.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.