Gaszowice g is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in southern Poland

Poland

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 located in the Silesian Voivodeship

Silesian Voivodeship

Silesian Voivodeship, or Silesia Province , is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centering on the historic region known as Upper Silesia...

 in Rybnik County

Rybnik County

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 (Gmina Gaszowice

Gmina Gaszowice

Gmina Gaszowice is a rural gmina in Rybnik County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the village of Gaszowice, which lies approximately west of Rybnik and west of the regional capital Katowice....

). From 1975 to 1998 the village belonged to and was administered by the Katowice Voivodeship

Katowice Voivodeship

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. It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) west of Rybnik

Rybnik

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 and 44 km (27 mi) west of the regional capital Katowice

Katowice

Katowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2...

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Name

The name Gaszowice comes from the name of a knight called Gasz, who probably was the founder of the village and built here a settlement in the 12th century.

History

In 1317 the village belonged to the Duchy of Racibórz. Gaszowice's coat of arms contains a plowshare which also exists on the German seal from 18th century.

Gaszowice has only 1 elementary school. Władysław Dworaczek was one of the teachers who started teaching there in 1932. Later from 1945 till 1972 he was the principal of the school.