Gliwice in Silesia
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Gliwice is a city in
Upper Silesia , southern Poland, near
Katowice . Gliwice is the west district of the
Silesian Metropolis – a metropolis with a population of 2 million. The city is located in the
Silesian Highlands , on the
Kłodnica river (a tributary of the
Oder ).
Situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999, Gliwice was previously in Katowice Voivodeship . Gliwice is one of the cities of a 2.7 million conurbation known as the Katowice urban area and is within the larger Upper Silesian metropolitan area , which has a population of about 5,294,000 people. The population of the city is 200,000.
Castle Museum at night © Jan Mehlich/cc-by-sa-3.0
The first coke-fired
blast furnace on the European continent was constructed in Gleiwitz in 1796 under the direction of
John Baildon . Gleiwitz began to develop into a major city through
industrialization during the 19th century. The town’s ironworks fostered the growth of other industrial fields in the area. The city’s population in 1875 was 14,156. However, during the late 19th century Gleiwitz had: 14 distilleries, 2 breweries, 5 mills, 7 brick factories, 3 sawmills, a shingle factory, 8 chalk factories and 2 glassworks.
An
attack on a radio station in Gleiwitz on August 31, 1939, staged by the German secret police, served as a pretext for Nazi Germany to
invade Poland , which marked the start of the Second World War. From July 1944 to January 1945, Gliwice was the location for one of the many sub-camps of the
Auschwitz concentration camp . Finally 24 January 1945, Gleiwitz was occupied by Red Army.
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