Ostróg (Racibórz)

Ostrog
	Ostrog
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
Powiat :	Racibórz
District of:	Racibórz
Geographic location :	50 ° 6 '  N , 18 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '50 "  N , 18 ° 13' 22"  E
Height :	200 m npm
Residents :
Postal code :	47-400
Telephone code :	(+48) 32
License plate :	SRC
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice-Pyrzowice

Ostróg (German Ostrog ) is one of the eleven districts of the city of Racibórz ( Ratibor ) in the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland .

geography

The northern district of Ostróg is located on the right bank of the Upper Oder in the southeast of the Silesian Voivodeship, about 26 kilometers west of Rybnik and about 73 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Katowice ( Katowice ).

The area around Ostróg is the most south-eastern part of the Silesian Lowlands . In the west lies the Oppa Mountains , in the north the Upper Silesian Highlands and in the south the Moravian Gate .

history

Parish Church "John the Baptist"

The settlement, later called Ostrog, was built on solid ground on the east bank of the Oder before the city of Ratibor was founded. The settlement served as a bailey ( Ostrog ) of an already busy 1108 Wallburg and was inhabited by servants. The hill fort, built to protect the trade route from the Moravian Gate to Cracow , was the center of a castellany that was occupied in 1155 . There is evidence of a wooden church from 1307, which was later renovated several times by the Ratibor dukes. The residents of Ostrog received pastoral care from the collegiate monastery , even after it was moved from the castle chapel to the Ratibor parish church of the Assumption in 1416.

From 1173 the settlement belonged to the newly created Duchy of Ratibor , which was subordinated to the Crown of Bohemia by Duke Lestko in 1327 , which was held by the Habsburgs from 1526 . In 1532, the Duchy of Ratibor, with which Ostrog continued to share the history of his political and ecclesiastical affiliation, fell back to the Crown of Bohemia as a settled fiefdom . The name of the settlement "Ostrog" is documented for the first time this year; at that time there were 69 residents.

After the First Silesian War , Ostrog and most of Silesia fell to Prussia . In 1810 the Ostrog settlement received the status of a village. As a result of the Prussian administrative reforms, from 1815 it belonged to the province of Silesia in the administrative district of Opole . In 1816 it was assigned to the newly formed district of Ratibor , and in 1817 it was given its own parish. In 1873, Ostrog was owned by Duke Victor I of Ratibor with an area of ​​853 acres . In 1874 the rural community of Ostrog was incorporated into the district of Bosatz , which in 1900 was merged with the district of Altendorf to form the "District of Ratibor Castle". Ostrog experienced an economic boom with the development of the large clay deposits. As a result, the number of inhabitants rose to 3376 in 1895. The wooden Oder bridge, known as the “Schlossbrücke”, was replaced by a reinforced concrete bridge in 1913/14.

On January 1, 1927, Ostrog was incorporated together with Ratibor Castle as "Ratibor-Nord" in the town of Ratibor, which rose to the town of Ratibor in the same year. Before the end of the war, the Reiners cigar factory was in Ostrog .

As a result of the Second World War , Ratibor fell to Poland in 1945, along with most of Silesia. At the end of March 1945 it was captured by the Red Army and placed under the Soviet command. The Ostrog district was renamed "Ostróg".

See also

• Ostrog
• Ostroh

Attractions

"Last Judgment" stained glass window

• The Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist ( Kościół par. Św. Jana Chrzciciela ) was built in the neo-Gothic style in 1855–56 based on a design by the Cologne architect Vincenz Statz . The altar painting "Baptism of Christ" was created in 1870 by the Hultschin painter Johannes Bochenek . The stained glass window “Last Judgment” was created in the Munich Mayer'schen Hofkunstanstalt .
• Ducal castle
• The St. The castle chapel , consecrated to Thomas of Canterbury , was donated at the end of the 13th century by the Bishop of Wroclaw, Thomas II .
• The late baroque statue of the Bohemian saint Johannes Nepomuk was erected around 1733 by the sculptor Johann Melchior Oesterreich as a donation of Count Karl Heinrich von Sobeck.

Personalities

• Johannes Boese (1856–1917), sculptor and professor
• Oskar Hellmann (1869–1944), publisher and author

literature

• Georg Hyckel : Ratibor . In: Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbook of historical places . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , pp. 427 and 430.
• Augustin Weltzel : Chronicle of the parish Ostrog near Ratibor . Rudolph Müntzberg (Ed.), Ratibor 1882. ( digitized version )
• Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , pp. 787 and 791 f.
• Ostróg 2.) Village (...) . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 15, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p.  233 .

Web links

• Ostrog with lock at GenWiki
• Ostrog, Bosatz / Proschowitz, Proschowitz / Bosatz, Ratibor-Nord, Ostrog, Racibórz-Ostrog at GenWiki

Footnotes

1. ^ Goods address book Silesia 1873 / Ratibor. GenWiki; accessed in September 2014
2. ^ Official district of Ratibor Castle
3. ^ Ratibor city district
4. ^ Joseph Doms tobacco factory in Ratibor. (No longer available online.) Ebay.de, archived from the original on October 13, 2014 ; accessed on October 8, 2014 . 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.