GLEIWITZ, a town in the Prussian province of Silesia, chief town of the circle of Tost-Gleiwitz, government district of Oppeln, is situated on the Klodnitz, and on the railway between Oppeln and Cracow, 40 miles S.E. of the former town. It is the seat of a royal mining board, a provincial court of justice, and a tax office. It possesses one Protestant and two Catholic churches, a synagogue, a gymnasium, a school of industry, two female schools of a higher grade, a convent, a hospital, an infirmary, two orphanages, and a barracks. Gleiwitz is the centre of the iron industry of Upper Silesia. Besides the royal foundry, with which are connected machine manufactories and boilerworks, there are other two foundries, meal mills, and manufactories of wire, gaspipes, cement, and paper. The population in 1875 was 14,156.