Grottkau
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Town Hall in Grodków
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 Grodków
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| Coordinates: 50°41′N 17°22′E / 50.683°N 17.367°E | |||
| Country |
 Poland
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| Voivodeship | Opole | ||
| County | Brzeg | ||
| Gmina | Grodków | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Marek Andrzej Antoniewicz | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 9.88 km2 (3.81 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2015) | |||
| • Total | 8,746 | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 49-200 | ||
| Car plates | OB | ||
| Website | http://www.grodkow.pl | ||
Grodków [ˈɡrɔtkuf] (German: 
Grottkau ) is a town in Brzeg County, Opole Voivodeship in Poland, the administrative seat of Gmina Grodków. It is located in the Silesian Lowlands of the Oder basin, in the historic Upper Silesia region, about 20 km (12 mi) south of Brzeg. In the north it has access to the A4 autostrada. The town has 8,746 inhabitants (2015).
Before 1945 the town was part of Germany (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War II).
The settlement of villa Grodcobichi in the Duchy of Silesia was first mentioned in a 1210 deed. The neighbouring town of Neu Grottkau was laid out by German settlers in the course of the Ostsiedlung, it was granted city rights in 1268 by the Silesian duke Henryk IV Probus. The medieval city plan was characterized by a rectangular marketplace and four streets leading to the towers of the city gates and the nearby towns of Nysa, Ziębice, Wrocław and Lewin. Upon the 1311 partition of the Silesian duchy, Grodków fell to the Duchy of Brzeg ruled by Duke Bolesław III the Generous, who became a Bohemian vassal in 1327. In 1344 he sold the town to Bishop Przecław of Wrocław, who attached it to his Silesian Duchy of Nysa. Later their suzerain, the Bohemian king Wenceslaus, granted the Wrocław bishops the title of a "Duke of Grodków", which they retained until the secularisation of the bishopric in 1810.
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