GLEIWITZ

gleiwitz, a town of germany, in the prussian province of silesia, on the klodnitz, and the railway between oppeln and cracow, 40 m. s.e. of the former town. pop. (1875) 14,156; (1905) 61,324. it possesses two protestant and four roman catholic churches, a synagogue, a mining school, a convent, a hospital, two orphanages, and barracks. gleiwitz is the centre of the mining industry of upper silesia. besides the royal foundry, with which are connected machine manufactories and boiler-works, there are other foundries, meal mills and manufactories of wire, gas pipes, cement and paper. see b. nietsche, _geschichte der stadt gleiwitz_ (1886); and seidel, _die konigliche eisengiesserei zu gleiwitz_ (berlin, 1896).