Strzemieszyce Wielkie

Strzemieszyce Wielkie
Strzemieszyce Wielkie, the Sacred Heart Sanctuary
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Strzemieszyce Wielkie
Coordinates: 50°18′44″N 19°16′46″E / 50.31222°N 19.27944°E / 50.31222; 19.27944Coordinates: 50°18′44″N 19°16′46″E / 50.31222°N 19.27944°E / 50.31222; 19.27944
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Silesian
City-county Dąbrowa Górnicza	Dąbrowa Górnicza
Established	11th century
Town rights	1954–1975
Area
• City	18.49 km2 (7.14 sq mi)
Population
• Metro	3,029,000 Katowice urban area
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	41–300
Area code(s)	+48 32
Car plates	SD

Strzemieszyce Wielkie (Hebrew: סצ'אמישיצה ויאלקה ) – a district (dzielnica) of Dąbrowa Górnicza (since 1975) in the Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. Located between the districts Reden and Strzemieszyce Małe, on the national road 94 between Katowice and Olkusz.

Traces of ancient human settlement date back to the Lusatian culture period (ca. 700 BC). Excavations carried out in 1996 testify to the existence of a medieval settlement in the 11th century. The first written record of the village name (in Latin Strmyeschycze major) comes from the early 14th century. The village belonged to the bishops of Kraków and was administered as part of the Sławków estates until 1790, when these became nationalized. After the Third Partition of Poland Strzemieszyce Wielkie found itself in the Prussian province of New Silesia. The first elementary school was established in 1806. Between 1807 and 1813 it found itself in the Duchy of Warsaw, and between 1815 and 1914 under Russian rule in Congress Poland.

In 1848 a railway station of the Warsaw–Vienna Railway was opened, followed in 1885 by a station of the Ivangorod Railway, connecting Dęblin (Russ.: Ivangorod) and Dąbrowa. The intersection of these two important railways gave rise to industrial development of the settlement. Between the 1870s and the 1930s numerous, albeit small, coal mines (e.g. "Jakub", "Jakub II", "Lilit", "Siurpryz", "Proreden") operated here.