Świniowice

Świniowice Schwinowitz
	Świniowice Schwinowitz
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
Powiat :	Tarnowskie Góry (Tarnowitz)
Gmina :	Tworóg (Tworog)
Geographic location :	50 ° 31 '  N , 18 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '2 "  N , 18 ° 39' 40"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 032
License plate :	STA
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

Świniowice (German: Schwinowitz ) is a village in Upper Silesia . It is located in the municipality of Tworóg (Tworog) in the Powiat Tarnogórski (Tarnowitz district) in the Silesian Voivodeship .

geography

Świniowice is three kilometers southwest of the township seat Tworóg , 16 kilometers northwest of the district town Tarnowskie Góry (Tarnowitz) and 38 kilometers northwest of the voivodeship capital Katowice (Kattowitz).

history

The place originated in the 13th century and was first mentioned in documents as "Swoynowitz" around 1295 in the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis (Tithe Register of the Diocese of Breslau).

In 1818 the place was mentioned as Schwiniowitz and also as Swinawitz . In 1865 Schwinowitz consisted of a village and a domain, consisting of a manorial Vorwerk. The village had seven farms, ten gardeners, five cottages with fields, eleven cottages without fields, 44 private houses and a Kretscham (a restaurant). Furthermore, the place was parish after Langendorf at this time .

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 62 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 173 for Poland. Schwinowitz remained with the German Empire . In 1936 the place was renamed Ebersheide . Until 1945 the place was in the district of Tost-Gleiwitz .

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Świniowice and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Katowice Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Tarnogórski and the new Silesian Voivodeship .

Attractions

• Chapel of the Conception of Mary with wayside cross

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a farmer on a hill with a scythe on his shoulder. The coat of arms indicates the agricultural character of the place.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Geographical-statistical handbook on Silesia and the County of Glatz, Volume 2
2. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
3. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive )