Rydułtowy is a town in the Wodzisław County of Poland's Silesian Voivodeship, in the southwestern Silesian Highland on the Rybnik Plateau, first mentioned in 1228 as Rudolphi Willa. Its modern history has centered on coal mining, tied to the roughly two hundred year old Rydułtowy Anna mine, and the neighboring settlement of Pietrzkowice was incorporated into the town in 1951, the same year Rydułtowy received town rights. During the Second World War the town held five forced labor camps, including an Auschwitz subcamp where more than a thousand mostly Jewish prisoners were held. Rydułtowy had 21,616 inhabitants as of 30 June 2019.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Rydułtowy (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 50.0578, longitude 18.4173
P2046 (area)
area 15.0 sq km
Wikidata statement P1082
population = 20749 (Wikidata P1082, as of 2021-03-31, normal rank)
View the Source2. Rydułtowy (Wikipedia)
Infobox established_date/established_titleQuote, Infobox established_date/established_title
First mentioned: 1228
3. GeoNames: Rydułtowy - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3086531
50.05857 18.41703 P PPLA3 PL 83 2415 241503 21887 284 Europe/Warsaw
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 284 m
View the Source 4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 50.25, 18.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 50.25, 18.25
50.25 18.25 Cfb
Rydułtowy (Wikipedia)
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