Siechnice

Siechnice
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Siechnice
Coordinates: 51°2′12″N 17°9′9″E / 51.03667°N 17.15250°E / 51.03667; 17.15250
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Lower Silesian
County	Wrocław
Gmina	Siechnice
Area
• Total	15.63 km2 (6.03 sq mi)
Population (2006)
• Total	3,851
• Density	250/km2 (640/sq mi)
Website	http://siechnice.com.pl/

Siechnice [ɕɛxˈɲit͡sɛ] (formerly German: Tschechnitz, renamed Kraftborn in the Nazi era) is a town in Wrocław County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It gained town status in 1997, and as of 2006 has a population of 3,851.

Siechnice lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) south-east of the regional capital Wrocław, and since 1 January 2010 has been the seat of the gmina (administrative district) of Gmina Siechnice. (Previously the district was called Gmina Święta Katarzyna, and Siechnice was the only town in Poland which neither gave its name to the gmina in which it lay nor served as its administrative seat.)

Gmina Siechnice Town and seat Siechnice Villages Biestrzyków Blizanowice Bogusławice Durok Groblice Grodziszów Iwiny Kotowice Łukaszowice Mokry Dwór Ozorzyce Radomierzyce Radwanice Smardzów Sulęcin Sulimów Święta Katarzyna Szostakowice Trestno Zacharzyce Zębice Żerniki Wrocławskie

Coordinates: 51°02′N 17°09′E / 51.033°N 17.150°E / 51.033; 17.150