Bogucice () is a district of

Katowice Katowice (, ) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has an official population of 286,960, and a resident population estimate of around 315,000. K ...

, in

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. It has an area of 2.78 km² and in 2007 had 16,538 inhabitants. The most eminent piece of architecture in Bogucice is the

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St. Stephen the Martyr's church, which was consecrated in 1894. The oldest cemetery in Katowice, first mentioned in 1598, was located in Bogucice, but there are no remains from this period today.

History

The village was probably founded in the 14th century once the first mention of Bogucice dates from 15 December 1360, included in a document of Nicolaus II,

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- Raciborz Duke, who bestowed the town and some other villages on Otton of Pilica. It became a seat of a Catholic parish in Diocese of Kraków, first mentioned in 1414, but established probably around 1360. During the political upheaval caused by

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the land around Pszczyna was overtaken by Casimir II, Duke of Cieszyn, who sold it in 1517 to the Hungarian

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s of the Thurzó family, forming the

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. In the accompanying sales document issued on 21 February 1517 the village was mentioned as ''Bohuticze''. It was incorporated into Katowice in 1924.

Education

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No. 13 *

No. 62 * Gymnasium No. 10

Famous inhabitants of Bogucice

* Alfons Bialetzki (born 1919),

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officer * Augustyn Halotta, Polish

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* Kordian Jajszczok, Polish

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, Polish alpine and high-altitude climber *Piotr Łuszcz, Polish

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References

External links

Wirtualne Bogucice
– Polish page about the district Districts of Katowice {{Silesian-geo-stub