Wełnowiec

Wełnowiec-Józefowiec

Wełnowiec-Józefowiec

Katowice District in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Wełnowiec-Józefowiec (German: Hohenlohehütte-Josephsdorf) is a district of Katowice. It has an area of 3.15 km2 and in 2007 had 15.924 inhabitants.[1]

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The district consists of two historical settlements:

  • Wełnowiec (German: Hohenlohehütte), first mentioned in the 17th century, initially a hamlet of Bogucice; before 1922 also known as Hohenlohehütte, after a local steel mill;
  • Józefowiec (German: Josephsdorf), established in 1826 by rev. Józef Beder, a Catholic priest from Chorzów;
  • Hohenlohehütte in Wełnowiec, a picture from the 19th century
  • St Joseph church in Józefowiec

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  1. [1]
    Urząd Miasta Katowice. "Katowice - Studium uwarunkowań i kierunków zagospodarowania przestrzennego" (PDF) (in Polish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-11-04. Retrieved 2011-06-16.


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