Opole, Poland

Population: 125.000 (2010)
Area: 96 km2
Density: 1. 300 /km2

Metro: 267.000

Opole, an important polish town today, has a great german heritage.

Germans call it Oppeln, silesian Uppeln or Uopole, but the term opole is from a slavic tribe from this upper silesian region.

The town was founded in 1217.

From 1327 was part of Bohemia and from 1526 till 1740 of Austria and then of Prussia and Germany.

After the second world war is in Poland.

In 1500 -1700  Opole had about 1,000 inhabitants;

in 1750 - 2,000;

1800 - 3,000;

1816 - 4,000;

1834 - 6,000;

1850 - 8,000;

1875 - 12,000;

1890 - 19,000;

1905 - 30,000;

1924 - 43,000;

1939 - 50, 000;

24 March 1945 just 170;

July 1945 - 13,000;

1946 - 40,000;

1965 - 70,000;

1973 - 92,000;

1992 - 129,000;

2004 - 126, 000.

In 1910 80% of population was german, today just 2%.

 In 2007 Opole in the ranking of the monthly magazine  Forbes "took ninth place in the most attractive cities for 

business and the third among the cities most attractive for foreign capital.

Opole has won first place in terms of European funds raised per capita in the ranking local government published 

in 2007 by the  Rzeczpospolita 

Opole districts are

• Bierkowice
• Gosławice
• Groszowice
• Grotowice
• Grudzice
• Kolonia Gosławicka
• Malina
• Nowa Wieś Królewska (New  royal village)
• Polwies
• Szczepanowice
• Śródmieście (Downtown)
• Wójtowa Wieś (Wójtowa Village)
• Wróblin
• Wyspa Bolko (Bolko Island)
• Wyspa Pasieka (Bolko Island)
• Zakrzów
• Zaodrze

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