Bierun

Bierun is a metropolis in Upper Silesia, in southern Poland, approximately 25 km south of Katowice. The town belongs to the Silesian Voivodeship seeing that its formation in 1999, previously to Katowice Voivodeship and, before World War II, became part of the Polish Silesian Voivodeship. The agreement of Berouna become first noted in a 1376 deed, while Silesia belonged to the Bohemian Crown. The call is most in all likelihood related to the, in addition spelled, Slavic deity Perun, stays of its cultic vicinity nonetheless gift at nearby Ledziny. John II of Opava, the Premyslid duke of Raciborz granted it town privileges in 1387.

A part of the united Duchy of Opole and Raciborz Bierun became incorporated with the aid of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1532. With most of Silesia, it changed into conquered by way of Prussia inside the First Silesian War of 1740 to 42 and afterwards included into the Silesia Province. On 18 June 1845, a fire destroyed large regions of the village; King Frederick William IV of Prussia in my view donated 9000 talers for its reconstruction.