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Katowice started as a conglomerate of a number of small farming and industrial village communities from the 14th century. Katowice itself was first mentioned under its present name as a village in the 16th century.
History of the city. The first mention of Katowice goes back to 1598 and is found in notes made by the Reverend Kazimierski who visited the Bogucice parish. However, the history of the city was marked by fates of several much earlier Slavic agricultural settlements dating from the 14th and 16th centuries as well as smithies which now make up ...
Founding fathers of Katowice. When the city was ruled by Prussia (from 1742) the Upper Silesia and Katowice underwent an intense period of economic development. The idea to establish the city belonged to Franz Winckler, a mining entrepreneur, who in 1839 was the owner of the Katowice area.
The area which would become Katowice was initially ruled by the Polish Silesian Piast dynasty until its extinction. [13] From 1327, the region was under administration of the Kingdom of Bohemia under the Holy Roman Empire. As part of the Bohemian Crown, it was passed to the Habsburg monarchy of Austria in 1526. [14]
Katowice can count itself as one of Poland’s newer cities, and a direct result of the industrial age. That’s not to say the region was a barren wasteland prior to the age of steam. The history books suggest the area was inhabited by ethnic Silesians centuries earlier, with the first recorded set.
1865: Municipal rights awarded to ‘Kattowitz’. 1871: Kattowitz is incorporated into German Empire. 1875: Kattowitz’s population records 11,000 residents. 1897: Granted rights as a city. 1922: Katowice becomes part of Second Polish Republic after WWI and Silesian Uprisings (1918-21); granted autonomy by the Polish Sejm.
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The settlement was first recorded in 1598, and it remained a small village until 1865, when it was granted municipal rights as Kattowitz. It grew rapidly as coal mining began in the area during the 1860s. The city became part of Poland in 1922 and has since incorporated surrounding villages.
