Thórawina

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Thórawina
Żórawina coat of arms
Żórawina (Poland)
Thórawina
Thórawina
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lower Silesia
Powiat : Wroclaw
Gmina : Thórawina
Geographic location : 50 ° 59 ′  N , 17 ° 3 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  N , 17 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  E
Residents : 1700
Postal code : 55-020
Telephone code : (+48) 71
License plate : DWR
Economy and Transport
Street : A4 Wroclaw - Opole
Rail route : Wroclaw – Kamieniec Ząbkowicki
Next international airport : Wroclaw
administration
Website : www.zorawina.pl



Żórawina (German Rothsürben ) is a place with 1,900 inhabitants in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland . The place is the seat of the Gmina Żórawina , in which around 8,000 people live. Żórawina is located 14.5 km south of Wroclaw city ​​center and belongs to the powiat Wrocławski . The railway line from Wroclaw to Strzelin runs through Żórawina, and the Polish A4 motorway runs one kilometer northeast of the town.

history

In 1937 it was renamed Rothbach .

Trinity Church

Trinity Church

The Holy Trinity Church (kościół św. Trójcy) dates from 1278 . With the Reformation , from 1597 to 1604, a reconstruction in the style of the late Renaissance or Mannerism as well as the construction of moats and earth walls took place. The church was given back to the Catholics in 1653.

The village church is extremely richly decorated with epitaphs and wall paintings from the Renaissance; In addition, there is a three-sided choir gallery , the parapet of which is adorned with 17 paintings of the life of Jesus, and a box by the Protestant founder. The exterior is dominated by numerous additions to the nave . Artists at the court of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague created important works of art for the church, including a life-size bronze statue of Christ by the Dutch court sculptor Adriaen de Vries from 1603 (now in the National Museum in Warsaw ) and the painting The Baptism of Christ by the court painter Bartholomäus Spranger from 1604 (The original is now in the National Museum in Wroclaw ; a copy was made for the church from private donations.).

After the Second World War, the church was no longer used and parts of the furnishings , such as the parapet paintings in the gallery, were taken to museums or the local former Protestant parish church, now the Catholic St. Joseph's Church. In the 1970s the church was briefly a branch of the Wroclaw National Museum, later the church was taken over by the local Catholic parish and repairs were initiated with the aim of opening the church to visitors on Sundays.

Radio station

Rothsürben transmitter
Image of the object
Today's transmitter mast in Żórawina
Basic data
Place: Thórawina
Voivodeship: Lower Silesia
Country: Poland
Coordinates : 50 ° 59 ′ 2 "  N , 17 ° 1 ′ 19.2"  E
Use: Broadcasting station
Accessibility: Transmission system not accessible to the public
Data on the transmission system
Tower / mast 1
Height: 140 m
Construction time: 1932
Operating time: 1932-1990
Conversion antenna: -
Transmitter conversion: 1940


Tower / mast 2
Height: 49.9 m
Construction time: 1940
Operating time: 1940-1945
Conversion antenna: -
Transmitter conversion: -


Tower / mast 3
Height: 49.9 m
Construction time: 1940
Operating time: 1940-1945
Conversion antenna: -
Transmitter conversion: -


Tower / mast 4
Height: 49.9 m
Construction time: 1940
Operating time: 1940-1945
Conversion antenna: -
Transmitter conversion: -


Tower / mast 5
Height: 260 m
Construction time: 1976
Operating time: since 1976
Conversion antenna: 1997
Transmitter conversion: 1997
Waveband : FM transmitter
Radio : VHF broadcasting
Send type: Digital television
Further data
Data on the wooden tower:
Building material : Wood
Demolition : Fall 1990

Historic medium wave transmission system:

Waveband: AM station
Broadcast: MW broadcasting
Commissioning : August 27, 1932
last transmission power : 200  kW
last transmission frequency : 1206  kHz
Shutdown : 1997

To the west of the village is a transmission mast with VHF transmitting antennas. The mast was built by the German Reichspost for the major station of the Schlesische Funkstunde (from April 1, 1934 Reichssender Breslau ) with a transmission power of 60 kW (later 100 kW) in the medium wave range . It started operations on August 27, 1932. Its structure corresponded to the Langenberg transmitter of Westdeutsche Rundfunk AG (WERAG), which was put into service four months later .

As with most German transmitters of that time, a free-standing wooden tower was used as the antenna carrier, in which a copper hollow cable was suspended as an antenna. The wooden tower of the Rothsürben transmitter was 140 meters high. For electrical extension , an octagonal bronze ring with a diameter of 10.6 m was attached to the top as a roof capacity . In 1940 a second transmitting antenna was built. This triangular antenna was suspended from three 49.9 meter high tubular steel masts. Both antennas were in use until operations were stopped on February 7, 1945 due to the offensive ( Lower Silesian Operation ) by the Red Army .

After 1945, Polish radio resumed broadcasting using the old wooden tower . In 1976, a 260-meter-high self-radiating transmission mast was erected and the transmission power of the medium-wave transmitter, which had been using the transmission frequency of 1206 kHz since 1965 , was increased to 200 kW. The wooden tower remained as a reserve transmission tower until it was demolished in autumn 1990. After the wooden tower in Ismaning was blown up, it was the tallest wooden tower in the world until it was demolished.

The operation of the medium wave transmitter ended in 1997. Since the formerly self-radiating transmission mast only serves as a carrier for radio (VHF) and television transmission antennas, the parts of the mast , which were initially provided with isolators, were replaced by those without isolators.

Community structure

The rural community is made up of 26 districts in addition to the main town Żórawina .

Sons and daughters of the place

literature

  • Walther Drechsel: Tower structures. Bauverlag GmbH, Wiesbaden (Germany), 1966; Pp. 224-226.

Web links

Commons : Żórawina  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kościół św. Trójcy accessed October 20, 2015
  2. ^ Archives for the Post and Telecommunications System, No. 5/6, 1973