Radzionków


Radzionków is a town in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. Outer town of the Metropolis GZM – metropolis with a 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. In 1975–1997 it was a part of Bytom before it became a separate entity in 1998. Radzionków is one of the towns of the 2.7 million conurbation – Katowice urban area and within a greater Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people. The population of the town is 16,826.
WWW radzionkow.pl

History

Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, Radzionków was occupied by Germany until 1945. A local Polish policeman was murdered by the Russians in the Katyn massacre in 1940.

Notable people