Obora (Lubin)

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Obora (German Oberau ) is a village in the rural community of Lubin in the Polish Lower Silesian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

The place is located in Lower Silesia , five to six kilometers northwest of the city of Lubin ( Lüben ).

history

Village church (Protestant until 1945).

The village Oberau belonged until 1945 to district Lubin in the district Liegnitz the Prussian province of Silesia of the German Reich .

After the end of World War II , Oberau and the Lüben district together with almost all of Silesia were placed under Polish administration by the Soviet occupying forces . Unless the German villagers had fled before the end of the war or had to do forced labor in agriculture after the end of the war, they were subsequently evicted by the local Polish administrative authorities .

Population development

year Residents Remarks
1933 675
1939 600

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Konrad Klose (1866–1924), German Protestant pastor and Silesian local historian

Web links

Commons : Obora (Lubin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. lueben.html # ew39lubnobera. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 6 ″  N , 16 ° 8 ′ 17 ″  E