Orzesze

Orzesze
Orzesze
	Church of Saints Peter and Paul
	Coat of arms
	Orzesze
	Coordinates: 50°9′N 18°45′E / 50.150°N 18.750°E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Silesian
County	Mikołów
Gmina	Orzesze (urban gmina)
Town rights	1962
Government
• Mayor	Andrzej Szafraniec
Area
• City	83.79 km2 (32.35 sq mi)
Population (2019-06-30)
• City	21,043
• Density	250/km2 (650/sq mi)
• Urban	2,746,000
• Metro	5,294,000
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	43-180
Area code	+48 32
Car plates	SMI
Website	http://www.orzesze.pl

Orzesze [ɔˈʐɛʂɛ] (German: Orzesche, Silesian: Ôrzeszŏ) is a town in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. Borders on the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union – metropolis with the population of 2 million. Located in the Silesian Highlands.

It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999, previously in Katowice Voivodeship, and before then, of the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship. Orzesze is one of the towns of the 2.7 million conurbation – Katowice urban area and within a greater Silesian metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people.^[2] The population of the town is 21,043 (2019).

Districts

Apart from the town proper and its two districts (Jaśkowice and Zawada) Orzesze has seven sołectwos:^[3]

Education

In 1820 the first school in a renovated farm was funded. In 1838, due to development of industry number of inhabitants started to grow rapidly. New school was built, at which 389 children were taught in 2 rooms. In 1868 new school arose in the building of the current post office. In that year Lutherans started education in their own school. In 1903 modern school was built.