Laurahütte (Upper Silesia)

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Coat of arms of the Laurahütte community
The Laurahütte in Upper Silesia in the 19th century.

The municipality Laurahütte (Upper Silesia) was established in 1890 and dissolved again in 1922 in the district of Katowice , which today belongs to the city of Siemianowice Śląskie .

history

The Laurahütte was a steelworks built in the 1830s by the magnate Hugo Henckel von Donnersmarck near Beuthen. The first integrated ironworks in Upper Silesia was built there in 1838. In its time, it was one of the largest ironworks.

In 1871 the " United Königs- und Laurahütte, joint stock company for mining and smelting operations in Berlin " was founded. The political community Laurahütte was established in 1890. The town hall of the community Laurahütte was realized in 1897 in a clearly restrained form. In 1910 the community of Laurahütte had 16,120 inhabitants.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 6,160 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 3,081 for Poland. As a result of the division of Upper Silesia, Laurahütte was assigned to the Polish East Upper Silesia in 1922 as Laura Huta . On June 19, 1922 the municipality Laurahütte was dissolved and the area was merged in 1923 with the municipality of Siemianowice Śląskie (Siemianowitz) as the new municipality of Huta Laura-Siemianowice Śląskie. This was given the shorter name of Siemianowice Śląskie in 1927.

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Emil Naglo (1845–1908), German entrepreneur (electrical engineering)
  • Hubert Schmidt (1864–1933), German prehistoric, curator and university professor in Berlin
  • Walter Reichel (1867–1937), German engineer and university professor, (electrical engineering, electric railways)
  • Ernst Steinitz (1871–1928), German mathematician
  • Max Brahn (1873–1944), German-Jewish psychologist
  • Otto Fitzner (1888–1945), industrial lawyer
  • Otto Josef Schlein (1895–1944), German-Jewish doctor and communist
  • Michael Jary (1906–1988), German composer
  • Paul Kontny (1923–2002), German-American artist
  • Rudolf Fiebich (1932–2016), German university teacher
  • Werner Goebel (* 1939), German microbiologist and university professor

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GMINNY PROGRAM OPIEKI NAD ZABYTKAMI SIEMIANOWIC ŚLĄSKICHNA LATA 2015 - 2018, p 24 (Polish)
  2. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. sch_kattowitz.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  3. ^ Alfred Bohmann: People and Limits. Vol. 1. Structural change in the German population in the Polish state and administrative area
  4. ↑ “Dziennik Ustaw Śląskich” 1922, no. 1, poz. 3; no 13, pos. 43 (wykaz gmin).

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