Świbie

Świbie
	Świbie
	Świbie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
Powiat :	Gliwice
Gmina :	Wielowieś
Geographic location :	50 ° 31 ' N , 18 ° 32' E Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '0 " N , 18 ° 32' 0" E
Residents :	1269
Postal code :	44-185
Telephone code :	(+48) 032
License plate :	SGL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice
administration
Website :	www.swibie.com
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The castle on an old photograph

Świbie (German Schwieben ) is an Upper Silesian village in the municipality of Wielowieś , Silesian Voivodeship in Poland . It has 1300 inhabitants and is located on the western edge of the Upper Silesian industrial area near the border with the Opole Voivodeship . Świbie is a typical north-south street village . The village consists of two parts, the lower village and the upper village. Świbie has an independent schoolteacher office and forms a parish with Dąbrówka .

geography

Świbie is located on the Upper Silesian Muschelkalk ridge about eight kilometers from the Wielowieś municipal seat (Langendorf) and about 33 km from the Gliwice district seat. Neighboring towns are Radonia (Radun), Wiśnicze (Wischnitz) and Dąbrówka (Dombrowka). The hamlets Diana (Dianenberg) and Napłatki (Naplatken) belong to Świbie .

To the north of the village lies the Himmelwitzer Forest with the “Hubert” reserve.

history

Schwieben was first mentioned in 1299. Schwieben and the road on which the place is located were probably laid out by Cistercians from Himmelwitz . Schwieben was created under German law.

Schwieben became Protestant in 1619 and Catholic again in 1665. When the Toster estates were divided up in 1666, Schwieben and Wischnitz came to Georg Leonhard Graf Collona. In 1669 the chapel in Oberdorf was built. 120 residents were killed in the Second World War and its aftermath. In 1945 Schwieben was occupied by the Red Army and the previously German town later came under Polish administration. Another 140 residents left Schwieben or had to leave the place. The official name Schwieben was changed to Świbie.

In 1964 the new elementary school was built in Świbie.

From 1950 to 1998, Świbie was in the Katowice Voivodeship . In 1999 Schwieben came to the Silesian Voivodeship and the re-established Powiat Gliwicki .

The book “Wilder Wermut” is about the place Schwieben and the Schwiebener. The Chronicle of a Russian Intern in 1945 ”by Josef Ploch. From 1961 to 1992, Świbie was an excavation site for finds from the Lusatian culture . In 2006 and 2007, Świbie was the location for the documentary "Liberator - the last flight" (Polish: "Ostatni lot bestii") by dokuframe, which is about the shooting down of a Consolidated B-24 on July 7, 1944.

Etymology of the place name

The place name Schwieben and its current Polish form Świbie are probably derived from the (probably Slavic) name of a plant. An old German spelling of the place was Schwiben and an old Polish name was Świbia. The Latin name of the place is Schwiebensis.

Attractions

Nikolauskirche (built around 1500)
Benigna Chapel from 1669
Gothic castle from the 18th century
Classicist distillery

education

1 kindergarten (Publiczne Przedszkole Świbie)
1 elementary school (Szkoła Podstawowa im. J. Wieczorka)

Restaurants

Restauracja Pod Kasztanami (Restaurant under the chestnuts)

societies

Football club "Naprzód Świbie" (Forward Schwieben)

literature

Josef Ploch: Wilder Vermouth: The Chronicle of a Russian Interned 1945. Wolfsburg 2003, ISBN 3-8330-0422-3
Franz Ploch: Years of Separation: Letters from Upper Silesia; 1945-2005. Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2006, ISBN 3-8334-4112-7
Johannes Chrząszcz: The history of the towns of Peiskretscham and Tost and the Tost-Gliwice district. 2nd edition, Peiskretscham 1927 (djvu file)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Johannes Chrząszcz : The history of the towns of Peiskretscham and Tost and of the Tost-Gleiwitz district (2nd edition, 1927)

[1] Johannes Chrząszcz : The history of the towns of Peiskretscham and Tost and of the Tost-Gleiwitz district (2nd edition, 1927)