Ellguth Turawa

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Ellguth Turawa
Ligota Turawska
Ellguth Turawa Ligota Turawska does not have a coat of arms
Ellguth Turawa Ligota Turawska (Poland)
Ellguth Turawa Ligota Turawska
Ellguth Turawa
Ligota Turawska
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Opole
Gmina : Turawa
Geographic location : 50 ° 47 '  N , 18 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '10 "  N , 18 ° 10' 53"  E
Residents : 703 (March 31, 2013)
Postal code : 46-046
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OPO
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 463 Bierdzan– Zawadzkie
Next international airport : Katowice



The former scrap wood church around 1929

Ellguth Turawa ( Polish Ligota Turawska ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Ellguth Turawa is located in the municipality of Turawa in Opole County (County Opole) in the Polish province of Opole . Ellguth Turawa has been officially bilingual (Polish and German) since 2012.

geography

Geographical location

Ellguth Turawa is located in the historical region of Upper Silesia in the Opole region . The place is 10 kilometers northeast of the municipality Turawa and 24 kilometers northeast of the district and voivodeship capital Opole .

The place is in the Nizina Śląska ( Silesian Plain ) within the Równina Opolska ( Opole Plain ). The Voivodeship Road Droga wojewódzka 463 runs through the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Ellguth Turawa are Bierdzan ( Bierdzany ) in the north, Sacrau Turawa ( Zakrzów Turawski ) in the southeast and Kadlub Turawa ( Kadłub Turawski ) in the south .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1463. The scrap wood church was built in 1629. In 1865 the place had 17 farms and 11 gardeners and 46 cottagers.

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Ellguth Turawa and most of Silesia fell to Prussia .

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Ellguth Turawa from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a Catholic church, a Catholic school, an outbuilding, a pitch oven and 77 houses in the village. In the same year, 695 people lived in Ellguth Turawa, 13 of them Protestant and three Jewish. In 1874 the district of Bierdzan was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Bierdzan, Ellguth-Turawa, Kadlub-Turawa and Sackrau-Turawa and the manor districts of Bierdzian, Ellguth-Turawa, Kadlub-Turawa and Sackrau-Turawa and the Sackrau-Turawa colony.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 316 eligible voters voted to stay with Germany and 307 for Poland. Ellguth-Turawa remained with the German Empire . Around 1930 the Bierdzan District was dissolved and Ellguth Turawa was assigned to the Turawa District. In 1933 there were 1014 inhabitants. In 1936 the new church was consecrated. In 1939 the place had 1,055 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole . The Schrotholzkirche St. Katharina was set on fire in 1945 when the Red Army marched in and burned completely.

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Ligota Turawska and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Opolski . On March 8, 2012, the place was also given the official German place name Ellguth Turawa .

Sights and monuments

  • The Roman Catholic St. Catherine Church (Polish: kościół św. Katarzyny Aleksandryjskiej ) was consecrated on July 19, 1936. Next to today's church was a scrap wood church from 1629.
  • Half-timbered houses in ul. Osiedle
  • Bell chapel

societies

  • German Friendship Circle
  • Village renewal group of the program "Odnowa Wsi Opolskiej"
  • Volunteer Fire Brigade OSP Ligota Turawska
  • Football club LZS Ligota Turawska

Web links

Commons : Ellguth-Turawa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the municipality of Turawa (Polish) (accessed on May 2, 2018)
  2. ↑ a b c Church and village history
  3. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
  4. ^ Johann Georg Knie : Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, spots, cities and other places of the royal family. Preuss. Province of Silesia. Breslau 1845, p. 121.
  5. ↑ a b Territorial District Biedrzan
  6. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Opole district (Polish Opole). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).