Area: 50 km2
Population: approx. 15 600
Consists of Miedźna, Wola (wieś + 2 przykopalniane osiedla), Góra ,Frydek, Gilowice, Grzawa
Chairman of the Municipal Council: Alojzy Wojciech
Wójt (provost): Bogdan Taranowski
Municipal Council's address:
43-227 Miedźna, ul. Wiejska 131
Phone. (032) 211-61-96, fax (032) 211-60-89
info@miedzna.pl
www.miedzna.pl

The 18th century emblem of Miedźna's self-government constitutes the arms of the Municipality. The Vistula marks out its eastern and southern boundaries and separates from the District of Oświęcim (Małopolskie voivodship). The Municipality of Pszczyna lies in the west, and the Municipality of Bojszowy (District of Bieruń and Lędziny) to the north of the Municipality of Miedźna. National Road No 933 Pszczyna - Oświęcim crosses the territory of Miedźna from west towards east. The municipality has all the facilities like water and gas systems or telephone services; two large sewage-treatment plants operate here.
There are 800 business enterprises registered, the most important of them being the coal mine in Wola with its two miners' residential estates Wola I and Wola II. The Municipality Council publishes a monthly called Gminne Sprawy [Municipal matters]. All the village communities of Miedźna have their monographs written by Zygmunt J. Orlik and published in 1996 in Bydgoszcz as one book entitled Nasze Strony [Our homeland].

Village Communities:

Miedźna

Area: 11 km2
Population: approx. 1500

Being one of the oldest settlements in the region and founded by the Polish settlement law, Miedźna had long existed before the arrival of colonists in the late 13th century. The colonists introduced a model of government based on the German colonization law and Miedźna became the seat of parish covering the neighbouring villages. Its medieval name Miedźwna meant 'honey-like'. Throughout centuries the rich Polish folk culture was preserved by the well-off peasantry in the village. A parish school was founded in the 16 c. then changed into a Prussian state-run school. St Clement Parish Church has existed in the village since the 13th century at least, now its 18th century wooden building is of great historical value.
Miedźna is the birthplace of many distinguished and meritorious Polish activists : Rev. Jan Kapica (1886-1930), DPhil. Teofil Golus (1886-1965), a Polish nationalist, activist of the Silesian Plebiscite and Silesian Uprising, Ludwik Golus (1892-1942), an officer of the Silesian Uprising, killed in Auschwitz Concentration Camp, DPhil. Józef Kapica (b. 1906), a lecturer at Jagellonian University before the War, a commander of antitank artillery in Tobruk, wounded at Monte Cassino, the founder and supervisor of Polish high schools in Italy operating with the Polish 2nd Corps under General Władysław Anders's command, then an activist of the Polish diaspora in England.

Wola
Area: 16 km2
Population: approx. 9350 (including miners' residential estates)

Situated over the Vistula, the village was founded and governed by the Polish law as early as in the 13th century. In the Middle Ages there used to be a hamlet of Wieża nearby, now non-existent. It was there where the River Vistula was crossed by the busy trade route from Cracow via Pszczyna towards the south of Europe. The route was used by various troops, kings and traders' caravans, students and pilgrims going to Italy. Henry of Valois, elected King of Poland, escaped from Wawel Castle back to France via Miedźna. During the Silesian Plebiscite and Silesian Uprisings the citizens of Wola took a firm position in favour of Poland. In 1985, Czeczot Coal Mine and two miners' residential estates were built in the north-west part of the village.
There are two primary schools, two junior high schools, a vocational school and a grammar school. The village has two parish churches, an "old" one for the villagers (founded in 1972) and a "new" one for the residents of the housing estates (founded in 1990).

Góra

Area: 7 km2
Population: approx. 2390

Góra dates back to the 14th c.; after World War II it incorporated the neighbouring village of Zawadka (founded at the same time and called Zawada till the 15th c.). The village church, a branch of the Parish of Miedźna, was the only one in the region to be used by the Calvinist and Arian denominations. In the past there were three servile granges of which the biggest was situated near the ford over the Vistula. Góra has numerous fish ponds and a limestone sinkhole Zapadź in the north. The village school was founded in 1834, the Roman catholic Parish in 1957. The late 15th c. historical parish church mentioned above was expanded in 1948 - 1950. It is Góra where the family of Bishop Piotr Libera, the Secretary of Poland's Episcopacy, comes from.

Frydek
Population: approx. 860

The Dukes of Pszczyna founded two separate colonies Siegfirdsdorf in 1630 and Erdmannsdorf in 1777, both of which were combined into one village of Frydek in the 19th c. A primary school was first founded in this little village in 1881. In 1985 a separate parish was established and a new church was consecrated in 1988.

Gilowice

Grammar School in GilowiceArea: 2.2 km2
Population: approx. 990

Dating from the 15th century the little village of Gilowice has never had a church nor a primary school of its own, chiefly because of its size. However, a model grammar school housing a branch of Cracow University of Technology has been operating here since 1994.

Grzawa

Grzawa is a small 13th century village bordering Miedźna. It spreads over 6 km2 and is inhabited by 470 people only. Its historical wooden Roman Catholic church is the oldest in the region. The church as it is today dates from the 16th century, however an original one may have existed there even 200 years earlier. In 1524 Andreas Stanislai de Rdzawa, allegedly the son of the reeve, was admitted to Jagellonian University. The primary school existed in the village for 100 years but was closed during World War II. Amongst the personalities coming from Grzawa we can distinguish Jan Kędzior, the Silesian Plebiscite and Uprising activist and a Polish nationalist, as well as Walenty Wojciech, a suffragan bishop of Wrocław (Breslau), of an eminent family of a free reeve.
'Silesia-Med' Laparoscope Surgery Centre, renown in Poland, has its seat in the village.