19 Facts About Gliwice

Gliwice is a city in Upper Silesia, in southern Poland.

Gliwice is the westernmost city of the Upper Silesian metropolis, a conurbation of 2.

Gliwice is bordered by three other cities and towns of the metropolitan area: Zabrze, Knurow and Pyskowice.

Gliwice is known for its Radio Tower, where Gleiwitz incident happened shortly before the outbreak of World War II and which is thought to be the world's tallest wooden construction, as well as Weichmann Textile House, one of the first buildings designed by world-renowned architect Erich Mendelsohn.

Gliwice hosted the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 which took place on 24 November 2019.

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Gliwice was first mentioned as a town in 1276 it was granted town rights earlier by Duke Wladyslaw Opolski of the Piast dynasty.

On 9 June 1933, Gliwice was the site of the first conference of the Nazi anti-Polish organization Bund Deutscher Osten in Upper Silesia.

From July 1944 to January 1945, Gliwice was the location of four subcamps of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

On 24 January 1945, Gliwice was occupied by the Red Army as part of their Allied Occupation Zone.

Under borders changes dictated by the Soviet Union at the Potsdam Conference, Gliwice fell inside Poland's new borders after Germany's defeat in the war.

Since the Industrial Revolution, Gliwice saw rapid economic growth which fuelled fast population increase.

Except for a short period immediately after Reformation, Gliwice has always had a Catholic majority, with sizeable Protestant and Jewish minorities.

Gliwice is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gliwice, which has 23 parish churches in the city.

Gliwice is the seat of the one of the three Armenian Church parishes in Poland, which is subject to the Holy See directly.

Since then, the number of Jews in Gliwice has started to decline as survivors moved to larger cities or emigrated to Israel, United States and other western counties.

Gliwice has one Jewish prayer house, where religious services are held every Sabbath and on holidays.

Previously, Jews in Gliwice prayed in the New Synagogue which was destroyed by Nazis during the Kristallnacht in 1938.

Gliwice is a major applied science hub for the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union.

Gliwice has 21 city districts, each of them with its own Rada Osiedlowa.