Żerniki (Gliwice)

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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Silesia
Powiat : District-free city
District of: Gliwice
Geographic location : 50 ° 20 '  N , 18 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 19 '30 "  N , 18 ° 42' 28"  E
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Żerniki (German: Zernik ) is a district of Gliwice (Gleiwitz). Żerniki is located in the northeast of Gliwice.

history

Johannes Baptist Church
Fallen memorial
chapel

The place originated in the 13th century at the latest and was first mentioned in a document as Sirnik in 1297 . 1295–1305 the place was mentioned in the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis ( Tithe Register of the Diocese of Breslau ) as "Syrdnik".

The place was mentioned in 1783 in the book Additions to the Description of Silesia as Zernick , was in the Tost district and had 181 inhabitants, 15 farmers and 12 gardeners. The place consisted of two parts, each with a Vorwerk. In 1818 the place was mentioned as Zernik . There has been a Catholic school since 1850, before that the place was schooled in Schalscha. In 1865 Zernik consisted of the two parts urban Zernik and Zernik von Gröling . Urban Zernik at that time had 14 farms, four gardeners and 32 cottagers. Zernik von Gröling consisted of a village and a manor. The manor belonged to Victor von Gröling from Schalscha since 1861 . The village had four farms, three gardeners and three cottagers.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 387 eligible voters voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 760 for membership in Poland. After the division of Upper Silesia, Zernik remained with the German Empire . In 1927 Zernik was incorporated into Gleiwitz from the Tost-Gleiwitz district . In 1936 the place was renamed Gröling in the course of a wave of renaming during the Nazi era .

In 1945 the until then German place came under Polish administration and was then attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed the Polish Żerniki . In 1950 the place came to the Katowice Voivodeship . In 1999 the place became part of the new Silesian Voivodeship.

Buildings and sights

  • Johannes-Baptist-Kirche , a Roman Catholic church in the modern style, which was consecrated in 1931. In 2006 it received a church tower with three bells and a new sacristy.
  • Evangelical chapel
  • Monument to the fallen, originally for the fallen of the First World War, later the fallen of the Second World War were added.

education

  • Elementary School No. 13

Web links

Commons : Żerniki (Gliwice)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann G. Knie: Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, spots, cities and other places of the royal family. prussia. Province of Silesia . Grass, Barth, 1845 ( google.de ).
  2. ^ Johann Ernst Tramp: Additions to the Description of Silesia, Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
  3. ^ Geographical-statistical handbook on Silesia and the county of Glatz, Volume 2 , 1818
  4. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
  5. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia in 1921: Literature , table in digital form