Sośnica is a district of Gliwice, Poland,[1] located in the eastern part of the city.

It is bordered by the districts of Wincentów in the north, Wólka Klwatecka in the west, Młynek Janiszewski, Jóżefów, Mleczna and Huta Józefowska in the south and Krzewień in the east.

On 9 April 1922, 17 French troops died in an explosion during the liquidation of a German militia weapons warehouse in the settlement.

[5] During World War II, in 1940, the Germans arrested local Polish parish priest Antoni Korczok, deported him to the Dachau concentration camp, and murdered him there the following year.

[6] The Germans established and operated the E22 and E452 forced labour subcamps of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp for Allied POWs in the district.