Pszów
Sign in to savePszów is a town in Wodzisław County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland, with 13,896 inhabitants (2019). It is located on Rybnik Plateau (Płaskowyż Rybnicki), in close vicinity to such cities, as Rybnik, Wodzisław Śląski, Racibórz, Radlin, Rydułtowy, Jastrzębie-Zdrój and Żory. With the area of .
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- Main square and the Basilica of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary
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- Czesław Krzystała
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Pszów is a town in Wodzisław County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland, with 13,896 inhabitants (2019). It is located on Rybnik Plateau (Płaskowyż Rybnicki), in close vicinity to such cities, as Rybnik, Wodzisław Śląski, Racibórz, Radlin, Rydułtowy, Jastrzębie-Zdrój and Żory. With the area of .
==History== thumb|left|Memorial to the closed Anna Coal Mine First mention of Pszów comes from 1265, when, called then Psov, it was granted Magdeburg rights. The first wooden church was built in the town in 1293. Across the centuries, Pszów shared the fate of Upper Silesia, belonging to Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Bohemia, Habsburg monarchy, Kingdom of Prussia, and German Empire. Following the Silesian Uprisings, in 1922 Pszów became part of Second Polish Republic.