Sośnica, Gliwice

District of the city of Gliwice, Poland

For other places with the same name, see Sośnica.

District of Gliwice in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Sośnica

District of Gliwice

Location of Sośnica within Gliwice

Sośnica

Coordinates: 50°16′49″N 18°43′57″E﻿ / ﻿50.28028°N 18.73250°E﻿ / 50.28028; 18.73250
Country|  Poland
Voivodeship| Silesian
County/City| Gliwice
Established| 1260
Within city limits| 1927
Time zone| UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)| UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration| SG
Primary airport| Katowice Airport

Sośnica is a district of Gliwice, Poland,[1] located in the eastern part of the city.

It is bordered by the districts of Wincentów in the north, Wólka Klwatecka in the west, Młynek Janiszewski, Jóżefów, Mleczna and Huta Józefowska in the south and Krzewień in the east.

## History

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Saint Mary of Help church

Sośnica was established in 1260 by Tomasz I, bishop of Wrocław within fragmented Piast-ruled Poland. The name is of Polish origin and comes from the word sosna which means "pine".[2]

It was annexed by Prussia in the 1740s, and from 1871 it was also part of Germany. It was subjected to Germanisation policies. Following World War I, Poland regained independence, and the majority of the citizens voted to rejoin Poland in the Upper Silesia plebiscite of 1921,[3] however, the settlement remained within Germany in the interbellum. On 9 April 1922, 17 French troops died in an explosion during the liquidation of a German militia weapons warehouse in the settlement.[4] Polish activists were increasingly persecuted since 1937.[5]

During World War II, in 1940, the Germans arrested local Polish parish priest Antoni Korczok, deported him to the Dachau concentration camp, and murdered him there the following year.[6] His successor Jerzy Jonienc was arrested in July 1941, but was released in September 1941.[6] The Germans established and operated the E22 and E452 forced labour subcamps of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp for Allied POWs in the district.[7] After the war, Sośnica became again part of Poland.

## Sports

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The Sośnica Gliwice women's handball team is based in Sośnica.

## Notable people

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* Włodzimierz Lubański (born 1947), retired footballer
* Joachim Marx (born 1944), retired footballer
* Lukas Podolski (born 1985), footballer
* Jacek Wiśniewski (born 1974), retired footballer

## References

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1. ^ Rozporządzenie Ministra Administracji i Cyfryzacji z dnia 13 grudnia 2012 r. w sprawie wykazu urzędowych nazw miejscowości i ich części, Dz. U., 2013, No. 200
2. ^ Damrot, Konstanty (1896). Die älteren Ortsnamen Schlesiens, ihre Entstehung und Bedeutung. Mit einem Anhange über die schlesisch-polnischen Personennamen. Beiträge zur schlesischen Geschichte und Volkskunde (in German). Verlag von Felix Kasprzyk. p. 178.
3. ^ "Landsmannschaft der Oberschlesier in Karlsruhe". Archived from the original on 4 April 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
4. ^ "Wincenty Styczyński". Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny (in Polish). Retrieved 29 November 2023.
5. ^ Cygański, Mirosław (1984). "Hitlerowskie prześladowania przywódców i aktywu Związków Polaków w Niemczech w latach 1939-1945". Przegląd Zachodni (in Polish) (4): 24.
6. ^ a b Rosenbaum, Sebastian; Węcki, Mirosław (2010). Nadzorować, interweniować, karać. Nazistowski obóz władzy wobec Kościoła katolickiego w Zabrzu (1934–1944). Wybór dokumentów (in Polish). Katowice: IPN. p. 102\. ISBN 978-83-8098-299-4.
7. ^ "Working Parties". Lamsdorf.com. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2023.