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Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Krapkowice
Gmina :	Gogolin
Geographic location :	50 ° 32 ' N , 18 ° 4' E Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '0 " N , 18 ° 4' 0" E
Residents :	1547
Postal code :	47-325
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OKR
Economy and Transport
Rail route :	Pyskowice – Opole
Next international airport :	Wroclaw
	Katowice
administration
Website :	www.kamienslaski.pl
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Groß Stein , in Polish Kamień Śląski , is a district of the municipality of Gogolin in the Powiat Krapkowicki in Poland . In the village with around 1,500 inhabitants, around 90% are Germans. Therefore, on April 30, 2010, the place received its official German name in addition to the Polish name. In the village there is the castle and park complex of the same name , which is one of the sights of the Opole region.

history

Groß Stein Castle in a depiction from the middle of the 19th century

Gross Stein Castle today

The townscape in Gross Stein

The Sebastianeum Silesiacum sanatorium

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 325 eligible voters voted to remain in Germany and 416 to belong to Poland. Groß Stein remained with the German Empire . In 1933 there were 1435 inhabitants. In 1939 the place had 1617 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Groß Strehlitz .

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Kamień Śląski and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. 1950 the place was assigned to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to Powiat Krapkowicki . On April 30, 2010, the place was also given the official German place name Gross Stein .

Castle and park complex

In the Schloss Gross Stein , which was built in the 11th century and already in 1104 the family Odrowąż belonged to the holy were probably Hyacinth , Blessed Ceslaus and the blessed Bronislava born. In 1660, Balcar von Larisch became the castle owner and converted it into a palace. In 1701 a chapel was set up in the tower, which was dedicated to the holy Hyacinth. In the 19th century the former baroque garden was transformed into an English garden . The last renovation before the Second World War took place in 1852. After the death of Countess Sophia von Larisch , the castle passed into the possession of the von Strachwitz family in 1799 , whose first-borns were named Hyacinth and who lived there until the end of the Second World War . Before the German invasion of Poland , the von Strachwitz family's private airfield, which is located directly next to the complex, was used by the German Air Force . The von Strachwitz family made the castle available to the Wehrmacht as a military hospital during the war . Meanwhile, the von Strachwitz family lived in one of their other castles. In spring 1945 the palace, park and airfield were taken by the Red Army and used as a hospital and military airfield until 1971. The decaying castle was set on fire with the withdrawal of the Red Army and then almost completely fell into disrepair. According to the socio-political changes in 1989 that destroyed plant from 1990 on a proposal which was Woiwodschaftsverwaltung Opole to the Diocese of Opole passed, which built the palace and park complex again. The restored pilgrimage site was inaugurated on the four hundredth anniversary of the canonization of Hyacinth on August 14, 1994. Today the palace and park complex not only serves as a place of pilgrimage, but also as a congress and conference center and is frequently visited by domestic and foreign tourists. In 2005, the Kneipp sanatorium Sebastianeum Silesiacum was built next to the castle . The private Opole Airport is currently being built from the former military airfield .

Sons and daughters of the church

Hyacinth (* 1183; † August 15, 1257); Saint, Provincial in the Dominican Order
Ceslaus of Breslau (* 1184; † 1242); Blessed, lawyer and missionary
Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz (* July 30, 1893, † April 25, 1968); German general

literature

Danuta Emmerling (Ed.): Travel guide to the sights of the Opole region . ADAN, Opole 2005, ISBN 83-915371-8-8 .
Angelika Marsch: Oppeln, Falkenberg, Gross Strehlitz. Historical views from four centuries . Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-87057-206-X .
Erwin Mateja, Helmut Wotzlaw: Castle Gross Stein . Laumann, 2003, ISBN 3-89960-193-9 .
Joseph Scholtyssek, Joanna Rostropowicz: Chronicle of the parish Gross-Stein . Wydawnictwo Św. Krzyża, Opole 1994, ISBN 83-85025-67-7 .

Web links

Commons : Gross Stein - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the village ( German and Polish )
Gross Stein palace and park complex ( German and Polish )
Sanatorium Sebastianeum Silesiacum ( Polish )

Individual evidence

↑ Dz. U. No. 17, poz. 141, z późn. zm .; online: Lista gmin wpisanych na podstawie art. 12 ustawy z dnia 6 stycznia 2005 r. , accessed May 14, 2010
↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento from January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Upper Silesia travel guide. Retrieved February 12, 2018 .

[name-1] Dz. U. No. 17, poz. 141, z późn. zm .; online: Lista gmin wpisanych na podstawie art. 12 ustawy z dnia 6 stycznia 2005 r. , accessed May 14, 2010

[2] See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento from January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

[3] Upper Silesia travel guide. Retrieved February 12, 2018 .