Giszowiec
Katowice District in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Giszowiec (German: Gieschewald) is an eastern district of the city of Katowice (Silesian Voivodeship, Poland), created as a coal miners' settlement in 1907. Initially consisting of about 3,300 miners and their families, the district's population have grown over the years to over 18,000. Although Giszowiec's architectural originality suffered major damages in the 1970s and 1980s due to large scale urbanization, its early unique character can be still felt in the surviving miners' housings, the marketplace, numerous individual buildings and structures, as well as the relatively well preserved general design of a "Garden city".
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Giszowiec | |
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Coordinates: 50°13′25″N 19°04′10″E | |
Country | Poland |
Voivodeship | Silesian |
County/City | Katowice |
Area | |
• Total | 12.03 km2 (4.64 sq mi) |
Population (2007) | |
• Total | 18,475 |
• Density | 1,500/km2 (4,000/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Area code | (+48) 032 |
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