Przyszowice (German ''Preiswitz'') is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Gierałtowice
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Gmina Gierałtowice is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Gliwice County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the village of Gierałtowice, which lies approximately south-east of Gliwice and west of the re ...
, within
Gliwice County,
Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
The village has a population of 3,199. It lies approximately north-east of
Gierałtowice, south-east of
Gliwice, and west of the regional capital
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 ...
.
Among the most notable landmarks of the area is an eclectic palace of the von Raczek family built between 1890 and 1895, the St. John of Nepomuk's Church built in 1938 and a wooden granary of 1829. During the final stages of
World War II the village was the site of the
Przyszowice massacre
The Przyszowice massacre ( pl, Zbrodnia przyszowicka or ''tragedia przyszowicka'') was a massacre perpetrated by the Red Army against civilian inhabitants of the Polish village of Przyszowice in Upper Silesia during the period January 26 to January ...
in which roughly 70 Polish civilians were murdered by the
Red Army.
References
Przyszowice
Palaces in Poland
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