Knurow

Knurow is a town in southern Poland, within the Silesian Voivodeship, inside the Gliwice poviat. Knurow is the second one largest city that is not the seat of the poviat. It is also the second one in terms of the smallest quantity of inhabitants, a metropolis whose government frame is the president and now not the mayor. Although contemporary Knurow received town rights pretty lately, because in 1951, due to merger with Krywald and Szczyglowice, its history is a whole lot richer. The first point out of Knurow comes from the Book of salaries of the bishopric of Wroclaw based around 1295.

From the oldest documents from 1305 and 1447, they examine that the location of Knurow territorially belonged to the Gliwice land. Over the centuries, the destiny of Knurow changed into just like that of the whole Upper Silesia, which, passing from hand finally after the Silesian wars fell inside the borders of the Kingdom of Prussia. One of the oldest buildings within the town is the 16^th century timber church. St. Wawrzynca currently placed in Chorzow.