Ligota - Panewniki (german: Ellgoth-Panewnik; also "Idaweiche") is a district of
Katowice
Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popul ...
in
Poland. It has an area of 12.59 km
2 and in 2007 had 31,879 inhabitants.
Ligota-Panewniki is famous due to the magnificen
Franciscan Basilica the headquarters of the Franciscan Assumption Province in Poland. During Christmas the church becomes a religious and tourist attraction due to its Christmas Nativity scene, which supposedly is the biggest in Europe.
In September 1939, Panewniki was one of the sites of large massacres of Polish
defenders of Katowice, carried out by the Germans following the
invasion of Poland, which started
World War II (see ''
Nazi crimes against the Polish nation''). During the subsequent
German occupation
German-occupied Europe refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly occupied and civil-occupied (including puppet governments) by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 an ...
, the occupiers operated two
forced labour
Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of ex ...
camps in Ligota: one for Poles (''
Polenlager
The ''Polenlager'' (, ''Polish Camps'') was a system of forced labor camps in Silesia that held Poles during the World War II Nazi German occupation of Poland. The prisoners, originally destined for deportation across the border to the new semi-c ...
''), and one for Jews.
Famous people
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Jerzy Kukuczka
Józef Jerzy Kukuczka (24 March 1948 in Katowice, Poland – 24 October 1989 Lhotse, Nepal) was a Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. Born in Katowice, his family origin is Silesian Goral. On 18 September 1987, he became the second m ...
Gallery
Basilica Panewniki facade.jpg, Facade of the Basilica of Saint Louis in Panewniki
Katowice Franciszkańska25 Biblioteka.jpg, Library in Ligota
KokociniecResidential.jpg, Modern housing in Kokociniec
Pomnik Edmunda Bojanowskiego w Panewnikach.jpg, Edmund Bojanowski
Edmund Bojanowski (14 November 1814 - 7 August 1871) was a Polish Roman Catholic and the founder of four separate religious congregations. He studied art and literature during his education in Breslau and Berlin before distinguishing himself du ...
monument in Panewniki
References
Districts of Katowice
Nazi war crimes in Poland
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