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Milowice - one of the oldest villages in Poland, originally called Milejowice. The first records of the settlement date back to 1105 and can be found in the document concerning the property of the monastery in Tyniec. Another well-known document mentioning the village comes from 1228 - its heir was then Klemens of Ruszcza. For many centuries it belonged to Silesia. In 1442, it became part of the Duchy of Siewierz, administered by the bishops of Kraków, although it still remained the property of the Bytom monastery. At the end of the 16th century, it belonged to Fryderyk Paczka from Wrocimowice and D±brówka. The later owners of Milowice (from 1623) were: Lipscy, Jaroccy, Wójciccy, Grabiańscy, Błeszyńscy. In 1869, the estate of Milowice was taken over by the Silesian company Kuznitzky i Ska Department Store, and in 1894 by the Society of Mines and Sosnowiec Metallurgical Works, representing French capital. The village had a farm, a brewery, a distillery, and until 1702 a larch manor. It belonged to a village with a large number of inhabitants, but it was depopulated after the Swedish deluge (1655). Only 22 families lived here, and in 1787 158 people in 23 houses.
In the early nineteenth century, it became an industrial settlement. The "Wiktor" hard coal mine was founded in 1822 by Józef Błeszyński, the then owner of the property. Its owners changed many times in the following years. From 1895, she belonged to the Society of Mines and Metallurgical Works in Sosnowiec. In the 1890s it was renamed the "Milowice" mine (temporarily in 1922-1926 it was renamed to its previous name). In 1974 it was connected to the "CzeladĽ" mine, and then incorporated into the "Czerwona Gwardia" ("Saturn") mine in CzeladĽ, which does not exist at present.
The second large industrial plant in Milowice - the rolling of iron castings - "Aleksander" steelworks launched at the turn of 1882-1883 by the Upper Silesian concern operating through a subsidiary company called "Milowicer Eisenwerk". After 1918, the steelworks was named "Milowice" and became the property of a joint stock company under the name Modrzejowskie Zakłady Górniczo-Hutnicze (from 1934 UZjednoczone Zakłady Górniczo-Hutnicze Modrzejów - B. Hantke). The heir of the plant is currently the company "TIMKEN" (production of bearings) and Factory of Technical Cylinders "Milmet" S.A.
¬ródło:
1. Jan Przemsza-Zieliński "Known and ... unknown Sosnowiec" (1992), Sowa-Press, Ekspres Zagłębiowski
2. Marian Kantor-Mirski "From the past of Zagłębie D±browskie and its surroundings" (1931-32)
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