District of the city of Sosnowiec, Poland
For other places with the same name, see
Klimontów.
District of Sosnowiec in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Klimontów [kliˈmɔntuf] is a district of Sosnowiec in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland,[1] located in the central part of the city.
History
Historical populationYear | |
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1827 | 216 |
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1921 | 5,237 |
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Source: [2][3] |
The Klimontów Coal Mine was built in 1908.
During the German invasion of Poland, which started World War II, in September 1939, the Germans carried out a massacre of nine Poles (eight men and one woman) in Klimontów (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[4] The German occupiers also established and operated two forced labour subcamps of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp for Allied POWs in Klimontów.[5]
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