Bielsko-Biała

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Bielsko-Biała
Image:POL Bielsko Biała flag.svg	Image:POL Bielsko-Biała COA.svg
(Flag)	(Coat of arms)

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Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Silesian
Municipal government	Rada Miejska w Bielsku-Białej
Mayor	Jacek Krywult
Population - city - urban - density	190 780 530 000 1526/km²
Founded	13th century
City rights	1312 (Bielsko) and 1723 (Biała)
Latitude Longitude	49°50' N 19°04' E
Area code	+48 33
Car plates	SB
Twin towns	Acco, Baia Mare, Besançon, Berdyansk, Frydek-Mistek, Grand Rapids, Kirklees, Kragujevac, Lilienthal, Monreale, Rancagua, Shijiazhuang, Stadskanaal, Szolnok, Tienen, Trinec, Wolfsburg, Žilina
Municipal Website

Bielsko-Biała (pronounce: Image:Ltspkr.png 'biεlskɔ:biawa, German: Bielitz and Biala) is a city in southern Poland with 180,307 inhabitants (1999).

Situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously capital of Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship (1975-1998).

1 Education
2 Politics
- 2.1 Bielsko-Biała constituency
3 Municipal politics
4 History
5 What to see?
6 Boroughs
7 Famous people from Bielsko-Biała
8 Sports
9 Sister cities
10 See also
11 External links

[edit] Education

[edit] Politics

[edit] Bielsko-Biała constituency

Members of Parliament (Sejm) elected from Bielsko-Biała constituency

Jacek Falfus (Law and Justice - PiS)
Tadeusz Kopeć (Civic Platform - PO)
Kazimierz Matuszny
Rafał Muchacki (Civic Platform - PO)
Stanisław Pięta (Law and Justice - PiS)
Piotr Smolana
Jan Sztwiertnia
Jan Szwarc
Stanisław Szwed (Law and Justice - PiS)
Tomasz Tomczykiewicz (Civic Platform - PO)
Stanisław Zadora (League of Polish Families - LPR)

[edit] Municipal politics

Mayor - Jacek Krywult
deputy mayor - Waldemar Jędrusiński
deputy mayor - Henryk Juszczyk
deputy mayor - Zbigniew Michniowski

[edit] History

The city of Bielsko-Biała was created on January 1 1951 when the adjacent cities of Bielsko and Biała were unified. Bielsko, which for centuries belonged to the Duchy of Cieszyn, was founded in 1312. From 1457 the Biała river was the border between Silesia and Little Poland. Silesia belonged to Austria, Little Poland to Poland. In 1723 on the opposite bank of the river the city of Biała came into being. In 1772 Biała was annexed by Austria and included in the crownland of Galicia. In 1918 both cities became part of reborn Poland, though a significant part of the population was ethnic German. During World War II the city was annexed to the Third Reich and its Jewish population sent to Auschwitz. After the liberation of the city by the Red Army in 1945, the ethnic German population was expelled.

[edit] What to see?

The Museum of Bielsko-Biała, housed in the Castle of the Dukes of Cieszyn from XV age, later Castle of the Sulkowski princes
President hotel
Train Station (Bielsko-Biała Główna) from 1888
Jewish Cementery founded in 1849
Theater built in 1890
St. Nicholas' Cathedral from 1447 and rebuilt in 1909 - 1910
House of Frogs, an Art Nouveau mansion
The Bielsko Biala Gallery of Art, galeria BWA

[edit] Boroughs

Image:Bielsko - Poczta.JPG

[edit] Famous people from Bielsko-Biała

Image:Bielsko-Biala widok z Szyndzielni.jpg Image:PL Bielsko Biala Ratusz.JPG Image:Bielsko - Dworzec PKP.jpg

Parents of John Paul II
Shlomo Avineri:
Born Bielsko 1933, in Israel since 1939. Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, former Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Recipient of Israel Prize (1996).
Maurice Bloomfield & Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler
Heinrich Conried
Roman Frister
Hellmuth Karasek
Franciszek Macharski
Roman Polko
Zbigniew Preisner
Artur Schnabel, Jewish pianist, born on Lipnik near Bielitz
Grażyna Staniszewska
Gerda Weissmann Klein
Sabina Wojtala
Albert Schickedanz, Hungarian Saxon architect
Sigmund Zeisler, Jewish jurist
Peter Kolobius
Krzysztof Karolak

[edit] Sports

Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała - men's football team (2nd league 2004/2005).
BBTS Siatkarz Original Bielsko-Biała - men's volleyball team playing in Polish Volleyball League (Polska Liga Siatkówki, PLS: Seria A in 2003/2004, Seria B in 2004/2005 season).
BKS Stal Bielsko-Biała - women's volleyball team:Polish Champion 2004, playing in Polish Seria A Women's Volleyball League.

[edit] Sister cities

Bielsko-Biała has city partnerships with the following cities:

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Image:Śląskie herb.svg	Silesian Voivodship
Cities: Bielsko-Biała \| Bytom \| Chorzów \| Częstochowa \| Dąbrowa Górnicza \| Gliwice \| Jastrzębie Zdrój \| Jaworzno \| Katowice \| Mysłowice \| Piekary Śląskie \| Ruda Śląska \| Rybnik \| Siemianowice Śląskie \| Sosnowiec \| Świętochłowice \| Tychy \| Zabrze \| Żory Powiats: Będzin \| Bielsko \| Bieruń-Lędziny \| Cieszyn \| Częstochowa \| Gliwice \| Kłobuck \| Lubliniec \| Mikołów \| Myszków \| Pszczyna \| Racibórz \| Rybnik \| Tarnowskie Góry \| Wodzisław \| Zawiercie \| Żywiec

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Silesian Voivodship