Żernica

Żernica Deutsch Zernitz
Help on coat of arms	Żernica Deutsch Zernitz
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
Powiat :	Gliwicki (Gleiwitz)
Gmina :	Pilchowice (Pilchowitz)
Geographic location :	50 ° 15 '  N , 18 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 14 '48 "  N , 18 ° 36' 55"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	44-144
Telephone code :	(+48) 32
License plate :	SGL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice-Pyrzowice

Żernica (German German Zernitz ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Administratively it is located in the municipality of Pilchowice (Pilchowitz) in the powiat Gliwicki (district of Gliwice) in the Silesian Voivodeship .

geography

The Archangel Michael Church

Townscape with church

Interior of the church

Żernica is eight kilometers southwest of the district town of Gliwice (Gleiwitz) and 29 kilometers west of the voivodeship capital Katowice .

history

The place is one of the oldest in the area and is said to have existed as early as the 12th century at the latest. On July 15, 1278, it was suspended under German law by a document from Duke Wladislaus. German settlers (colonists) came to the place in 1279, including the name Heinrich Angrimann and his son of the same name. In 1283 Count Stephan Zbronowitz exchanged it with the Rauden Monastery for another village. 1295–1305 the place was mentioned in a document as "Syrdnicza villa" in Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis ( Tithe Register of the Diocese of Wroclaw ). In addition, another place called "Syrdnicza Semiani" was mentioned, which probably no longer exists today.

In 1742 the place with most of Silesia came to Prussia. The place was mentioned in 1783 in the book Additions to the Description of Silesia as Zerni (t) z and Zerni (t) za and was located in the Tost district of the Principality of Opole . At that time he had a Catholic church, a school, a farm, 40 farmers, 25 other houses and 421 residents. In 1806 the massive rectory was built. The water mill went into operation in 1852. In 1865 Deutsch Zernitz had 39 farmers, seven small farmers, and 14 cottages, as well as a church, a school, a Kretscham (restaurant), three blacksmiths, two tailors, four shoemakers and three butchers. The school had 180 students at that time.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 260 people eligible to vote voted in place for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 566 for membership in Poland. Deutsch Zernitz remained with the German Empire after the division of Upper Silesia . In 1936 the place was renamed Haselgrund as part of a wave of renaming during the Nazi era . Until 1945 the place was in the district of Tost-Gleiwitz .

In 1945 the previously German town came under Polish administration and was then attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed the Polish Żernica . In 1950 the place came to the Katowice Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Gliwicki and the new Silesian Voivodeship.

Buildings and sights

• The Roman Catholic Archangel Michael Church made of scrap wood from the years 1648 to 1661. Baroque interior.
• The modern style Roman Catholic Holy Cross Church, built in 1964.
• Memorial to the fallen and internees of World War II
• Pathway chapel from 1920 with the figure of St. John Nepomuk
• Medieval castle wall, on this stands the Archangel Michael Church
• Former School building from the 19th century
• Wooden houses and barns from the 17th and 19th centuries
• Wayside crosses

Personalities

• Szczepan Twardoch (* 1979), Silesian writer
• Michał Zieliński (* 1984), Polish football player who also has German citizenship

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Felix Triest : Topographical Handbook of Upper Silesia , Breslau 1865
2. ^ Johann Ernst Tramp: Additions to the Description of Silesia , Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
3. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature (Polish, French), table in digital form
4. ↑ Information from the community