Ligota - Panewniki (German: Ellgoth-Panewnik; also "Idaweiche") is a district of Katowice in Poland. It has an area of 12.59 km2 and in 2007 had 31,879 inhabitants.[1]
Ligota-Panewniki | |
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 Ligota-Panewniki | |
 Location of Ligota-Panewniki within Katowice | |
| Coordinates: 50°13′36.79″N 18°57′45.38″E / 50.2268861°N 18.9626056°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Silesian |
| County/City | Katowice |
| Area | |
| • Total | 12.59 km2 (4.86 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Total | 31,879 |
| • Density | 2,500/km2 (6,600/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | (+48) 032 |
| Vehicle registration | SK |
| Primary airport | Katowice Airport |
| Website | district portal dedicated to serve Ligota, Panewniki, Zadole, Kokociniec and Wymysłów districts |
Ligota-Panewniki is famous due to the magnificent Franciscan Basilica, the headquarters of the Franciscan Assumption Province in Poland. During Christmas the church becomes a religious and tourist attraction due to its Christmas Nativity scene, which supposedly is the biggest in Europe.
In September 1939, Panewniki was one of the sites of large massacres of Polish defenders of Katowice, carried out by the Germans following the invasion of Poland, which started World War II (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[2] During the subsequent German occupation, the occupiers operated two forced labour camps in Ligota: one for Poles (Polenlager),[3] and one for Jews.[4]
Famous people
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Facade of the Basilica of Saint Louis in Panewniki -
Library in Ligota -
Modern housing in Kokociniec -
Edmund Bojanowski monument in Panewniki
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 130.
- ^ "Polenlager Kattowitz-Idaweiche". Bundesarchiv.de (in German). Retrieved 5 June 2021.
- ^ "Zwangsarbeitslager für Juden Kattowitz-Idaweiche". Bundesarchiv.de (in German). Retrieved 5 June 2021.
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