Grodków
Encyclopedia
Grodków ' is a town in Opole Voivodeship
in Poland
. It has 8,709 inhabitants (2007) and lies 20 km south of Brzeg
.
Grodków was granted city rights in 1268 by Duke Henryk IV Probus
. The medieval city plan was characterized by a rectangular marketplace
and four streets leading to the towers of the city gate
s.
The Prussian
garrison
of the town was disbanded in 1920. The town had 4,867 inhabitants in 1939 and was the seat of Landkreis Grodków (Grottkau) until 1945.
Before 1945 the town was part of Germany (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War II
).
Opole Voivodeship
- Administrative division :Opole Voivodeship is divided into 12 counties : 1 city county and 11 land counties. These are further divided into 71 gminas.The counties are listed in the following table .- Economy :...
in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. It has 8,709 inhabitants (2007) and lies 20 km south of Brzeg
Brzeg
Brzeg is a town in southwestern Poland with 38,496 inhabitants , situated in Silesia in the Opole Voivodeship on the left bank of the Oder...
.
Grodków was granted city rights in 1268 by Duke Henryk IV Probus
Henryk IV Probus
Henryk IV Probus was a member of the Silesian branch of the royal Polish Piast dynasty...
. The medieval city plan was characterized by a rectangular marketplace
Marketplace
A marketplace is the space, actual, virtual or metaphorical, in which a market operates. The term is also used in a trademark law context to denote the actual consumer environment, ie. the 'real world' in which products and services are provided and consumed.-Marketplaces and street markets:A...
and four streets leading to the towers of the city gate
City gate
A city gate is a gate which is, or was, set within a city wall. Other terms include port.-Uses:City gates were traditionally built to provide a point of controlled access to and departure from a walled city for people, vehicles, goods and animals...
s.
The Prussian
Kingdom of Prussia
The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...
garrison
Garrison
Garrison is the collective term for a body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it, but now often simply using it as a home base....
of the town was disbanded in 1920. The town had 4,867 inhabitants in 1939 and was the seat of Landkreis Grodków (Grottkau) until 1945.
Before 1945 the town was part of Germany (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War II
Territorial changes of Poland after World War II
The territorial changes of Poland after World War II were very extensive. In 1945, following the Second World War, Poland's borders were redrawn following the decisions made at the Potsdam Conference of 1945 at the insistence of the Soviet Union...
).
Notable residents
- Joseph Anton Franz Elsner (1769–1854), composer
- Sylvius Leopold WeissSylvius Leopold WeissSilvius Leopold Weiss was a German composer and lutenist.Born in Grottkau near Breslau, the son of Johann Jacob Weiss, also a lutenist, he served at courts in Breslau, Rome, and Dresden, where he died...
(1687–1750), composer