Radlin, Silesian Voivodeship

Radlin is a town in Wodzisław County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, with 17,776 inhabitants (2019). Located in southern part of the Voivodeship, close to the Czech border, between 1975 and 1997, Radlin was a district of the city of Wodzisław Śląski.

History
First mention of the settlement of Biertułtowy (which now makes the center of Radlin) comes from 1305, as Bertholdi villa. The very name Radlin probably comes from the Polish word radło, which means ard. In the 19th century, Radlin was one of the biggest villages of the Rybnik County of the Kingdom of Prussia. Like other locations of Upper Silesia, it grew in the 19th century, when several enterprises were opened there – Coal Mine Marcel, Coke Plant Radlin. In 1922, after Silesian Uprisings, it became part of Poland.

Sport

 * Górnik Radlin – men's volleyball team playing in Polish Volleyball League
 * KS Górnik Radlin – men's football team
 * KG Radlin – gymnastic club, founded in 1920, where trained 20 Polish Olympic athletes

Sights

 * Graduation Tower in Radlin – first graduation tower on an industrial side of Upper Silesia in Poland
 * Kolonia Emma in Radlin – modernist estate of the nineteenth century designed as a "garden city"

Notable people

 * Bolesław Kominek (1903–1974), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
 * Leszek Blanik (born 1977), gymnast, World and Olympic champion

Twin towns – sister cities
Radlin is twinned with:
 * 🇩🇪 Genthin, Germany
 * 🇨🇿 Mohelnice, Czech Republic
 * 🇺🇦 Rohatyn, Ukraine