GLEIWITZ, a town in the Prussian province of Silesia, on the Klodnitz, and the railway between Oppeln and Cracow, 4o m. S.E. of the former town. Pop. (187 5) 14,156; (1933) 111 ,081. Gleiwitz is the centre of the mining industry of Upper Silesia. There are also foundries with which are connected machine manufactories and boiler-works, and manufactories of wire, chemicals, glass, cement and paper. The town is rather more than a mile north of the new frontier between Germany and Poland.