A report on Chorzów and Tarnowskie Góry

A 1930 plaque commemorating the alleged discovery of the silver deposit in 1490 in the place of the current Florczak House at the Market Square
Chorzów as Charzow on an 18th-century Polish map
16th-century Gwareks' bell-tower (Dzwonnica Gwarków) in the town center
Steelworks at Königshütte, 1872–1875 ("Das Eisenwalzwerk" by Adolf von Menzel)
Arcade houses at Gliwicka Street, dating back to the 16th century
Headframe of the closed President coal mine
16th-century Gwarek House, in which in 1744 the first Lutheran service was held after the end of Habsburg rule, as mentioned by pastor Samuel Ludwik Zasadius
Chorzów in the 1930s
Railway station
Ulica Wolności (Freedom Street), one of the main areas of commerce in the city
Fryderyk Smelting Works in interwar Poland
Memorial to local Poles murdered by the Germans in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
Polish Army barracks in the 1930s
Main post office
Districts of Tarnowskie Góry
Chorzów within the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union.
Liberty Square
Chorzów Town Hall
Municipal office
Subdivisions of Chorzów
The Giraffe, a sculpture at the Silesian Park
Stadion Śląski, the second biggest stadium in Poland
Statue of footballer Gerard Cieślik in Chorzów

Among the victims were miners, former insurgents and a school principal from nearby Chorzów.

- Tarnowskie Góry

Local Polish teachers were among Poles murdered in 1939 in Chorzów and Strzybnica (present-day district of Tarnowskie Góry), and later in the Dachau concentration camp.

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Upper Silesia

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Southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia, located today mostly in Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic.

Southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia, located today mostly in Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic.

Moravian-Silesian Beskids
Silesian flag used by Silesians
Coat of arms of Upper Silesia as drawn by Hugo Gerard Ströhl (1851–1919)
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1746 map of Upper Silesia, Homann heirs, Nuremberg
Silesian Parliament in Katowice
Katowice
Ostrava
Gliwice
Opole
Silesian dumplings
Silesian gorals

Chorzów (125,800)

Tarnowskie Góry (67,200)

Silesian Voivodeship

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Voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centered on the historic region known as Upper Silesia (Górny Śląsk), with Katowice serving as its capital.

Voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centered on the historic region known as Upper Silesia (Górny Śląsk), with Katowice serving as its capital.

Pless Castle in Pszczyna
Katowice is the capital of the Silesian Voivodeship
Jasna Góra in Częstochowa is the holiest Roman Catholic shrine in Poland
Gliwice, one of the oldest cities in Silesia
Bielsko-Biała is a major industrial, transport and touristic hub
Terminal A at Katowice International Airport
Silesian Regional Assembly
Little Beskids Landscape Park

Among these were Katowice (Kattowitz), Rybnik (Rybnik), Pszczyna (Pleß), Wodzisław (Loslau), Żory (Sohrau), Mikołów (Nikolai), Tychy (Tichau), Królewska Huta (Königshütte), Tarnowskie Góry (Tarnowitz), Miasteczko Śląskie (Georgenberg), Woźniki (Woischnik), Lubliniec (Lublinitz), Cieszyn (Teschen), Skoczów (Skotschau), and Bielsko (Bielitz).

Silesian insurgents

Silesian Uprisings

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Part of the Weimar Republic at the time.

Part of the Weimar Republic at the time.

Silesian insurgents
Polish armored car Korfanty in 1920 made by Polish fighters in Woźniak foundry. It was one of the two created, the second was named Walerus – Woźniak.
Wojciech Korfanty organized the Third Polish Silesian Uprising in Upper Silesia.
Cap badge of the Polish Storm Detachment during Silesian Uprisings
Train derailed by the insurgents near Kędzierzyn
Polish insurgents unit in 1921
Silesian Insurgents Monument in Katowice. The largest and heaviest monument in Poland, constructed in 1967.

Between 20 and 25 August, the rebellion spread to Königshütte (Chorzów), Tarnowitz (Tarnowskie Góry), Rybnik, Lublinitz (Lubliniec) and Gross Strehlitz (Strzelce Opolskie).

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Upper Silesia plebiscite

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Plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty and carried out on 20 March 1921 to determine ownership of the province of Upper Silesia between Weimar Germany and Poland.

Plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty and carried out on 20 March 1921 to determine ownership of the province of Upper Silesia between Weimar Germany and Poland.

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Language situation in Silesia in 1905-06
Members of the Polish Plebiscite Committee
A bilingual Polish Propaganda poster: Vote for Poland and you will be free
A German Propaganda poster: Prayer of the Homeland: Upper Silesia remain German!
Upper Silesia Plebiscite 1921 cast iron campaign medal of the pro- German side. The obverse shows the Bavarian born Saint Hedwig of Silesia.
The reverse of this medal states in German and Polish the German origin of the Upper Silesian Christianisation.
A crowd awaits the plebiscite results in Oppeln (Opole)
1920 special passport issued to those living in the region during the Upper Silesian plebiscite.
Arrival of the train with migrant workers from western Germany in Neustadt (Prudnik)

However, the districts of Pless (Pszczyna) and Rybnik in the southeast, as well as Tarnowitz (Tarnowskie Góry) in the east and Tost-Gleiwitz (Gliwice) in the interior showed considerable Polish majorities, while in Lublinitz (Lubliniec) and Groß Strehlitz (Strzelce Opolskie) the votes cast on either side were practically equal.

All the districts of the industrial zone in a narrower sense - Beuthen (Bytom), Hindenburg (Zabrze), Kattowitz (Katowice), and Königshütte (Chorzów) - had slight German majorities, though in Beuthen and Kattowitz this was due entirely to the town vote (four-fifths in Kattowitz compared to an overall 60%).

Katowice Voivodeship

Katowice Voivodeship

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Katowice Voivodeship (województwo katowickie) can refer to one of two political entities in Poland:

Katowice Voivodeship (województwo katowickie) can refer to one of two political entities in Poland:

Katowice Voivodeship

Chorzów (125,800);

Tarnowskie Góry (67,200);

Prisoners in Stalag VIII-B

Stalag VIII-B

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German Army prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, later renumbered Stalag-344, located near the village of Lamsdorf in Silesia.

German Army prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, later renumbered Stalag-344, located near the village of Lamsdorf in Silesia.

Prisoners in Stalag VIII-B
British and Allied surgical patients at prisoner of war camp Stalag 344-E (VIII-B) "Lazarett" Feb 1944
Memorial to the victims
German WWII prison camp money (from Stalag 344/E) 1944

E88 in Wełnowiec (Hohenlohehütte), present-day district of Katowice, at the Król (König) coal mine, "Agnieszka" (Agneschaft) east shaft of the Król mine in Agnieszka (Agneshütte) colony (177 POWs), and in Chorzów (Königshütte) at Prezydent (Königsgrube) coal mine

E479 in Tarnowskie Góry (Tarnowitz) - railway work (207 POWs)