Grodków is in this archive for its events: 1 published here, with their dates.
What this page is
This page gathers what Cultural Heritage Online documents in Grodków, Poland: the entries are the ones already published, each with its own sources, its position and its photographs. It is the shortest way to everything we hold in the city, and it is updated as the archive grows.
Why visit
Grodków is the birthplace of Józef Elsner, born here on 1 June 1769: a Polish composer, teacher and theorist active mainly in Warsaw, and one of the first in Poland to weave folk music into his works. It is a small town of the Opole Voivodeship, in Silesia.
Origins and history
The town appears for the first time in a Latin document of 1250, as Grodcow. The Polish name comes from gród, a fortified settlement, and means «castle town»; the German form Grottkau is recorded in the seventeenth century, in Nicolaus Henel's Topographia Bohemiae, Moraviae et Silesiae. The register of the bishopric of Wrocław, drawn up between 1295 and 1305, lists it as Grotkow together with the villages that the town later absorbed. Grodków is today the seat of the gmina of the same name in the Opole Voivodeship.
Key facts
- Country: Poland
- Region: Opole Voivodeship
- Places in this archive: 0
- Centre of the documented entries: 50.6986°N, 17.3853°E
What is on in Grodków
- Birth Anniversary: Józef Elsner — June 1, 1769 — 1 June 2027
Sources
The dates and the titles above are our own record. The history on this page rests on the two sources listed.
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