Święta Katarzyna (Siechnice)

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Święta Katarzyna ( German Kattern ) is a village in the urban and rural municipality of Siechnice ( Kraftborn , until 1936 Tschechnitz ) in the Powiat Wrocławski ( Breslauer District ) in the Polish Voivodeship of Lower Silesia .

Kattern southeast of Breslau on a map from 1905

Geographical location and traffic

The village is located in Lower Silesia , about twelve kilometers southeast of the city of Wroclaw .

The Święta Katarzyna station is on the Bytom – Wrocław railway line and is the start of the Święta Katarzyna – Wrocław Kuźniki railway line .

history

Katharinenkirche

The village church of Kattern is mentioned in 1257.

In 1945, the village belonged to Kattern district Breslau in district Breslau the Prussian province of Silesia of the German Reich .

Kattern was occupied by the Red Army in the spring of 1945 . In the summer of 1945 the village, like almost all of Silesia, was placed under Polish administration by the Soviet occupying power . The Poles introduced the place name Święta Katarzyna for Kattern . Insofar as the German residents had not fled, they were subsequently expelled from Kattern by the local Polish administrative authorities .

The village was the seat of the rural community Święta Katarzyna until the end of 2009, which was then renamed Gmina Siechnice .

Population development

year Residents Remarks
1933 1,496
1939 1,546

Attractions

  • Village church named after Catherine of Alexandria . The village church is mentioned as early as 1257, was probably built even earlier and was expanded in 1720 and repaired after the Second World War.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/DetailsServlet?id=WDU20091201000
  2. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. sch_breslau.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).