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Sosnowiec - description, location, history

Sosnowiec is a city located in south-western Poland in Silesia, in the center of the Upper Silesian Industrial Region (GOP). It is located in the Silesian Upland forming part of the Krakow-Czestochowa Upland. It lies on the rivers: White Przemsza, Bobrkiem, Black Przemsza and Brynica, where the last two designate the boundary of Upper Silesia.

first time the name appeared in Sosnowiec in 1727 in the parish records Mysłowice in 1736, on a map of the Principality Raciborski (original Sosnowietz), was then the village Mill.

After the third partition of Polish village of Sosnowiec was in the partition Prussia, under the New Silesia, since 1807, the Duchy of Warsaw, from 1812, again under Prussian rule, and after the Congress of Vienna - since 1815 in the Polish Kingdom (in the Russian zone).

first mine in the area today Sosnowiec was "Hope Louise" (1806), next to mine, "Joseph", "John", "Maurice", "Zygmunt", "Charlotte". Since 1822, in Sosnowiec were first zinc smelter, "Louis", "Menyanthes", "Dańdówka", "Joanna", "Leopold," "Laura," "Hedwig" and the processing plants of zinc: zinc mill "Emma" and plant zinc white, "Laura."

In February 1863, Polish insurgents Apollinaris Kurowski (about 50 riflemen and 50 scythebearers) under the command of Cpt. Stanislaus Nikiforowa and Cpt. Theodore Cieszkowskiego attacked and captured the railway station in Sosnowiec, died while fighting a few Poles and a few Russians.

4 September 1939, German troops marched into Sosnowiec. The Nazis carried out the first executions of Jews and Poles. In October the Basin has been incorporated into the German Reich (province of Silesia, Katowice Regency). Created On Brynicy border police, which the Poles could exceed only by special permission.

In the 90's, followed by twilight Sosnowiec coal mining and with it the entire infrastructure - housing mining, health, sports clubs, cultural centers, schools, departmental and industry producing for the mining industry. The largest coal mine KWK Sosnowiecka "Sosnowiec" mining ended 31 December 1997 The city already operates one coal mine KWK "Kazimierz-Juliusz".