Lubowitz

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Lubowitz / Łubowice
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Lubowitz / Łubowice (Poland)
Lubowitz / Łubowice
Lubowitz / Łubowice
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Silesia
Powiat : Raciborski
Gmina : Rudnik
Area : 3.70  km²
Geographic location : 50 ° 10 ′  N , 18 ° 14 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 41 ″  N , 18 ° 14 ′ 9 ″  E
Residents : 365 ()
Postal code : 47-417
Telephone code : (+48) 32
License plate : SRC
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Katowice



Bilingual place-name sign
Lubowitz Castle
Lubowitz Castle

Lubowitz ( Polish Łubowice ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Lubowitz is located in the rural municipality of Rudnik in the Raciborski powiat in the Polish Silesian Voivodeship . Lubowitz has 365 inhabitants.

Lubowitz is the birthplace of the German poet Joseph von Eichendorff .

geography

Lubowitz is located six kilometers northeast of the township seat Rudnik , nine kilometers north of the district town Racibórz (Ratibor) and 56 kilometers west of the voivodeship capital Katowice . Lubowitz lies on the Oder .

Neighboring towns of Lubowitz are in the northwest Gacki (Gatzki), in the north Grzegorzowice (Gregorsdorf) and in the south Ligota Książęca (Herzoglich Ellguth).

history

Lubowitz was first mentioned in 1376.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 39 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 123 for Poland, in the Lubowitz manor district 41 people voted for Germany and 17 for Poland. Lubowitz remained with the German Empire . In 1933 there were 343 inhabitants. In 1939 the place had 359 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Ratibor .

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Łubowice and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. From 1945 to 1954 Łubowice was the seat of the municipality of Łubowice. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1975 the place came to the Katowice Voivodeship . With the fall of the Wall in 1989, the Eichendorff Association was founded in the town. In 1999 the place came to the powiat Raciborski and the Silesian Voivodeship . On July 12, 2000 the Upper Silesian Eichendorff culture and meeting center was opened.

Since April 11, 2008, Lubowitz has had the German place name Lubowitz in addition to the Polish place name Łubowice, which was the only official name until then. Lubowitz is the first place in the Silesian Voivodeship to have a German place name . The German-speaking place-name signs were ceremoniously unveiled on September 4, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. in the presence of the voivod Zygmunt Łukaszczyk.

Attractions

  • The Upper Silesian Eichendorff Culture and Meeting Center is located in Lubowitz, and the German entertainer Thomas Gottschalk took part in its opening ceremony on July 12, 2000 as a surprise guest , who openly acknowledges his Silesian roots and donated 50,000 DM to the center.
  • In April 2005, an Eichendorff memorial museum was opened in Lubowitz. Objects that have been discovered in the city in recent years are exhibited there.
  • Ruins of Lubowitz Castle , residence of the von Eichendorff family
  • Neo-Gothic church from 1907

Personalities

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gmina-rudnik.pl
  2. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Homepage ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Upper Silesian Eichendorff culture and meeting center in Lubowitz @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eichendorffzentrum.de
  4. ↑ "Lubowice and Lubowitz. Making history with Polish-German place-name signs ” in ZDF-Mittagsmagazin on September 12, 2008
  5. ↑ “We long to go home and don't know where to go? - Upper Silesian Eichendorff culture and meeting center inaugurated in Lubowitz ” (PDF; 148 kB) in Norbert Willisch's internet portal
  6. ↑ “The most expensive address of my life” Address by Thomas Gottschalk on the occasion of the inauguration of the Upper Silesian Eichendorff culture and meeting center in Lubowitz