What is the population of Goleszów, Silesia?

Goleszów has a population of approximately 4,045 according to the latest available open data.

Where is Goleszów, Silesia located?

Goleszów is located in Silesia, Poland, at approximate coordinates 49.7337°, 18.7402°.

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Goleszów

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Goleszów

Total population

4,045

Land area12.11 km²

Coordinates49.73°, 18.74°

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Area

12.11 km²

Official website

www.goleszow.pl

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Overview

Goleszów is a village and the seat of Gmina Goleszów in Cieszyn County in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.

History & geography

History

The village lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. It was first mentioned in a document of Bishop of Wrocław issued on 23 May 1223 for Norbertine Sisters in Rybnik among villages paying them a tithe, as Goles(u)ov(u)o. Politically it belonged then to the Duchy of Opole and Racibórz and the Castellany of Cieszyn, which was in 1290 formed in the process of feudal fragmentation of Poland into the Duchy of Teschen, ruled by a local branch of Silesian Piast dynasty. In 1327 the duchy became a fee of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which after 1526 became a part of the Habsburg monarchy. The village became a seat of a Catholic parish, according to a secondary source from the 19th century a stone church was already built in 1293. The parish was then mentioned in the register of Peter's Pence payment from 1447 among the 50 parishes of Teschen Deanery as Boleschaw. After the 1540s Reformation prevailed in the Duchy of Teschen and many local citizens became Lutherans. After issuing the Patent of Toleration in 1781 they subsequently organized a local Lutheran parish as one of over ten in the region. After the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire a modern municipal division was introduced in the re-established Austrian Silesia. The village as a municipality was subscribed to the political district of Bielsko and the legal district of Skoczów. In the late 19th century Goleszów became an important railway junction. In 1898 a cement plant was opened there, which led to industrialisation of the village. According to the censuses conducted in 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 the population of the village grew from 1164 in 1880 to 2434 in 1910, with majority of the inhabitants being native Polish-speakers (98.5% in 1880 dropping to 90.9% in 1910), followed by a growing…

Geography

Goleszów lies in the southern part of Poland, approximately north-west of the nearest town-centre, Ustroń, south-east of the county seat, Cieszyn, south-west of Bielsko-Biała, south-west of the regional capital Katowice, and east of the border with the Czech Republic. It is situated on several streams, among them Radoń, left tributary of Bładnica river (left tributary of the Vistula). The village lies in the Silesian Foothills, between roughly (the height of the Chełm Goleszówski hill) above sea level; north of the Silesian Beskids.

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