Piekary Śląskie () (german: Deutsch Piekar; szl, Piekary) is a
city
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in
Silesia
Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is split ...
in southern
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
, near
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 ...
. The north district of the
Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union
The Metropolis GZM ( pl, Metropolia GZM, formally in Polish Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia) is a metropolitan unit composed of 41 contiguous municipalities in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland. The seat of the metropolitan council is ...
– metropolis with the population of 2 million. Located in the
Silesian Highlands
Silesian Upland or Silesian Highland ( pl, Wyżyna Śląska) is a highland located in Silesia and Lesser Poland, Poland.
Its highest point is the St. Anne Mountain (406 m).
See also
*Silesian Lowlands
*Silesian-Lusatian Lowlands
*Silesian ...
, on the
Brynica
Brynica (German: ''Brinitz'') is a river in Silesia, Poland. It has a length of 55 km and is the main tributary of Czarna Przemsza. It has a source in Mysłów, and flows through Piekary Śląskie, Wojkowice, Czeladź, Siemianowice Śląskie ...
river (tributary of the
Vistula
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The Vistula rises at Barania Góra in ...
).
It is situated in the
Silesian Voivodeship
Silesian Voivodeship, or Silesia Province ( pl, województwo śląskie ) is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centered on the historic region known as Upper Silesia ('), with Katowice serving as its capital.
Despite the Silesian ...
since its formation in 1999, previously in
Katowice Voivodeship
Katowice Voivodeship () can refer to one of two political entities in Poland:
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, and before then, of the
Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship
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. Piekary Śląskie is one of the cities of the 2.7 million conurbation –
Katowice urban area
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and within a greater
Silesian metropolitan area
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populated by about 5,294,000 people. The population of the city is 54,226 (2021).
Piekary is a spiritual center of
Upper Silesia
Upper Silesia ( pl, Górny Śląsk; szl, Gůrny Ślůnsk, Gōrny Ślōnsk; cs, Horní Slezsko; german: Oberschlesien; Silesian German: ; la, Silesia Superior) is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia, located ...
, a
Marian shrine
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which is a pilgrimage site for thousands of the faithful, and a mining town.
History
![Piekary Śląskie, Bytomska](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Piekary_%C5%9Al%C4%85skie%2C_Bytomska.jpg)
Piekary Śląskie was created in 1934 in
interwar Poland
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by merging the communes of Szarlej and Wielkie Piekary into Szarlej-Wielkie Piekary. In 1935 it was renamed Piekary Śląskie.
Name and early history
There are two legends about the founding of Piekary, according to one it was founded in the late 10th century, and according to the other it was founded by Polish ruler
Casimir I the Restorer
Casimir I the Restorer (; 25 July 1016 – 28 November 1058), a member of the Piast dynasty, was the duke of Poland from 1040 until his death. Casimir was the son of Mieszko II Lambert and Richeza of Lotharingia. He is known as the Restorer becau ...
in 1041. The area formed part of Poland after the establishment of the state in the 10th century. Under the
Latin
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ized name of ''Pecare'', the settlement was mentioned in a document by the
bishop of Kraków
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
Paweł of Przemankowo from 1277.
The name is of Polish origin. It derives from the word ''piekarz'' (meaning "
baker
A baker is a tradesperson who bakes and sometimes sells breads and other products made of flour by using an oven or other concentrated heat source. The place where a baker works is called a bakery.
History
Ancient history
Since grains ha ...
"), referring to possible bakers baking bread here for the nearby city of
Bytom
Bytom (Polish pronunciation: ; Silesian: ''Bytōm, Bytōń'', german: Beuthen O.S.) is a city in Upper Silesia, in southern Poland. Located in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland, the city is 7 km northwest of Katowice, the regional capital ...
or from the word ''pieczara'' (meaning "
cavern
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"), as caverns were supposedly created here as a result of exploitation of ore.
[
As a result of the 12th-century ]fragmentation of Poland
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it was part of various Piast
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-ruled duchies, the last being the Duchy of Opole
Duchy of Opole ( pl, Księstwo opolskie; german: Herzogtum Oppeln; cs, Opolské knížectví) was one of the duchies of Silesia ruled by the Piast dynasty. Its capital was Opole (Oppeln, Opolí) in Upper Silesia.
Duke Boleslaw III 'the Wrymou ...
until 1526. Between 1303 and 1318, the first church and independent parish
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were created there. In the 15th century, the zinc
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and lead
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mining industry developed and the process of settlement evolution begun.
Modern era
In 1526 Piekary came under the suzerainty of the Habsburg monarchy
The Habsburg monarchy (german: Habsburgermonarchie, ), also known as the Danubian monarchy (german: Donaumonarchie, ), or Habsburg Empire (german: Habsburgerreich, ), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities ...
. Polish King John III Sobieski
John III Sobieski ( pl, Jan III Sobieski; lt, Jonas III Sobieskis; la, Ioannes III Sobiscius; 17 August 1629 – 17 June 1696) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1674 until his death in 1696.
Born into Polish nobility, Sobie ...
visited Piekary in 1683, while rushing to the relief of Vienna during the Ottoman invasion. The next years brought several peasant revolts against the German
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magnates
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. In 1697, newly elected King of Poland Augustus II the Strong
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stopped in Piekary before his royal coronation in Kraków
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. He converted to Catholicism
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in the local church and at the same time he sworn the pacta conventa
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. In January 1734, his son, elected king Augustus III of Poland
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, also stopped here, while heading for his royal coronation, and also swore the pacta conventa here.
In 1742 the settlement was annexed by Prussia
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and colonisation
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and Germanisation
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of Piekary Śląskie increased. The result was a strong movement towards maintaining the Polish origins of the land. In 1842, Piekary's rector, priest
A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particu ...
Jan Alojzy Ficek, commissioned a new neo-romanesque
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Basilica of St. Mary and St. Bartholomew
The Basilica of St. Mary and St. Bartholomew is a Roman Catholic church in Piekary Śląskie, Poland. There was a church in Piekary Śląskie from the fourteenth century. The current church, designed by Daniel Grötschel in Neo-Romanesqe style, w ...
designed by Daniel Grötschel
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. A painting of the Virgin Mary was placed there. In the mid-19th century, founded a Polish printing house.[ In the late 19th century Polish singing and gymnastic societies, reading rooms and the first patriotic organizations were established.][ In 1905 the Polish Gymnastic Society "]Sokół
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" was established in Piekary. Tram
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communication was available from 1894.
Recent history
It was one of the centers of Silesian Uprisings
The Silesian Uprisings (german: Aufstände in Oberschlesien, Polenaufstände, links=no; pl, Powstania śląskie, links=no) were a series of three uprisings from August 1919 to July 1921 in Upper Silesia, which was part of the Weimar Republic ...
and in 1922 was ceded to the Second Polish Republic
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by Weimar Germany
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as 86% of the population voted for joining the re-established Polish state. In June 1922, a symbolic ceremony of reintegration of Piekary with Poland took place. Polish Uhlan
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s under the command of Stanisław Szeptycki
Count Stanisław Maria Jan Teofil Szeptycki (3 November 1867 – 9 October 1950) was a Polish count, general and military commander.
Biography
Born in 1867 in Galicia, Austria-Hungary to the aristocratic Szeptycki family, he was the grandson of ...
entered Piekary, greeted by the St. Mary church by the local populace led by , local Polish independence activist and poet, nicknamed the "Silesian Wernyhora
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He has been a subject of several folklore tales and poems (particularly in the 19th centur ...
".[ On July 10, 1939, Piekary Śląskie received ]city rights
Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium. The city law customary in Central Europe probably dates back to Italian models, which in turn were oriented towards the tradition ...
with effect from 1940. As a result of the outbreak of World War II
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, the actual implementation of this law did not take place until 1947.[
During the joint German-Soviet ]invasion of Poland
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, which started World War II
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, Piekary was captured by Germany in September 1939, and then was under German occupation
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until 1945. Already in September 1939, the Germans carried out several executions of Poles
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(see ''Nazi crimes against the Polish nation
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''). On September 6, Germans murdered three Poles in the present-day district of Brzozowice. On September 17, the ''Freikorps
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'' murdered two miners, one local official and one former Silesian Uprisings participant in Piekary. Several miners from the present-day district of Brzozowice were murdered in nearby Lasowice (present-day district of Tarnowskie Góry
Tarnowskie Góry (German: ''Tarnowitz''; szl, Tarnowske Gōry) is a town in Silesia, southern Poland, located in the Silesian Highlands near Katowice. On the south it borders the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union, a megalopolis, the greater Si ...
). Local teachers were among Polish teachers murdered in Nazi concentration camps
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. The ''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 ...
No. 188'', a forced labour
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camp for Poles, was operated in the city. During the occupation, the city's main street, Bytomska, was renamed Adolf Hitler
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Street (''Adolf-Hitler-Straße'').
In 1973 Kozłowa Góra was included within the city limits as the northernmost district. Under the administrative reform of 1975, the city limits were expanded by including the surrounding towns and settlements: Dąbrówka Wielka, Brzeziny Śląskie, Brzozowice and Kamień.
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Sights
The main landmark of Piekary Śląskie is the Romanesque Revival
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Basilica of St. Mary and St. Bartholomew
The Basilica of St. Mary and St. Bartholomew is a Roman Catholic church in Piekary Śląskie, Poland. There was a church in Piekary Śląskie from the fourteenth century. The current church, designed by Daniel Grötschel in Neo-Romanesqe style, w ...
, a popular Catholic pilgrimage site. Another symbol of the city is the , erected in 1932–1937 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the march of the Polish hussars of King John III Sobieski
John III Sobieski ( pl, Jan III Sobieski; lt, Jonas III Sobieskis; la, Ioannes III Sobiscius; 17 August 1629 – 17 June 1696) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1674 until his death in 1696.
Born into Polish nobility, Sobie ...
through Piekary to Vienna
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and the 15th anniversary of reintegrating eastern Upper Silesia with Poland after the Silesian Uprisings
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. It is the highest point within the city limits. Also the Piekary Calvary
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with the Church of the Resurrection of Christ is one of the city's landmarks.
Other historic architecture includes the Sacred Heart church, Saints Peter and Paul church, Our Lady Help of Christians church and the Our Lady of Perpetual Help chapel in Kozłowa Góra, as well as numerous historic townhouses and buildings. In the city there are also monuments commemorating Poles murdered during the German occupation
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in World War II, and a monument to local Polish independence activist and poet Wawrzyniec Hajda, located in the Szarlej district.
Gallery
File:MOs810 WG 2018 8 Zaleczansko Slaski (Liberation Mound in Piekary Śląskie) (1).jpg, Liberation Mound
File:Piekary Śląskie, kaplica Pałac Heroda 01.JPG, One of the chapels of the Piekary Calvary
File:Sacred Heart church Piekary Slaskie.jpg, Sacred Heart church
File:Piekary Śląskie - Wojewódzki Szpital Chirurgii Urazowej 01.jpg, Historic hospital building
File:Piekary Slaskie Kozlowa Gora chapel.jpg, Our Lady of Perpetual Help chapel in Kozłowa Góra
File:Piekary Śląskie, Ficka 3.jpg, Facade of an old tenement house with figurines of Holy Mary
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Sports
The city's most notable sports club is handball
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team Olimpia Piekary Śląskie, which competes in the I Liga (Polish second tier), but in the past played in the Polish Superliga
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(top division), where it finished 4th in 2007.
Notable people
* Karol Langner (1843–1912), Polish priest
* (1844–1923), Polish independence activist and poet
* Hans Marchwitza
Hans Marchwitza (25 June 1890 – 17 January 1965) was a German writer, proletarian poet, and communist.
Life
Marchwitza was the son of miner Thomas Marchwitza and his wife Thekla Maxisch, and was born in Scharley (Szarlej) (now a part of Piek ...
, born at Szarlej (1890–1965), German writer and Communist
* Hans Kroll (1898–1967), German diplomat
* Wilhelm Antoni Góra (1916–1975), Polish footballer
* Marek Siwiec
Marek Maciej Siwiec (born 13 March 1955 in Piekary Slaskie) is a Polish politician and journalist. Biography
Marek Maciej Siwiec studied physics at the AGH University of Science and Technology
AGH University of Science and Technology in Kra ...
(born 1955), Polish politician, Member of the European Parliament
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When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...
* Jerzy Polaczek
Jerzy Jan Polaczek (born 24 August 1961 in Piekary Śląskie) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm
The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland ( Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskie ...
(born 1961), Polish politician
* Adam Matysek (born 1968), Polish footballer
* Dariusz Wosz
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Early life
Wosz's family ...
(born 1969), German footballer
Twin towns – sister cities
Piekary Śląskie is twinned with:
* Kobuleti
Kobuleti ( ka, ქობულეთი ) is a town in Adjara, western Georgia, situated on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. It is the seat of Kobuleti Municipality and a seaside resort, visited annually by Georgians and many former Soviet Unio ...
, Georgia
* Kroměříž
Kroměříž (; german: Kremsier) is a town in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 28,000 inhabitants. It is known for the Kroměříž Castle with castle gardens, which are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The town centre with the c ...
, Czech Republic
* Marija Bistrica
Marija Bistrica () is a village and municipality in the Krapina-Zagorje County in central Croatia, located on the slopes of the Medvednica mountain in the Hrvatsko Zagorje region north of the capital Zagreb. The municipality has 5,976 inhabitants, ...
, Croatia
References
External links
Piekary, Silesia
Jewish Community in Piekary Śląskie
on Virtual Shtetl
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City counties of Poland
Cities and towns in Silesian Voivodeship
Silesian Voivodeship (1920–1939)