Pławniowice

Pławniowice
Help on coat of arms	Pławniowice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
Powiat :	Gliwice
Gmina :	Rudziniec municipality
Geographic location :	50 ° 23 ′  N , 18 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  N , 18 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E
Residents :	920 (2006)
Postal code :	44-171
Telephone code :	(+48) 032
License plate :	SGL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice
administration
Website :	www.plawniowice.pl

Pławniowice (German Plawniowitz ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Pławniowice is located in the municipality of Rudziniec (Rudzinitz) in the powiat Gliwicki (Gleiwitz district) in the Polish Silesian Voivodeship .

geography

Lake in Pławniowice

Pławniowice is six kilometers northeast of the township seat Rudziniec , 19 kilometers northwest of the district town Gliwice (Gleiwitz) and 41 kilometers west of the voivodeship capital Katowice .

Pławniowice is located between the Klodnitz , Gliwice Canal and Pławniowice Lake in the north and the A4 motorway in the south.

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Pławniowice are Łany (Lohnia) in the west, Taciszów (Tatischau) in the east and Rudziniec (Rudzinitz) in the south-west .

history

Plawniowitz Castle

Castle Park

The area was already settled in the Old Slavic period around AD 600. After the Mongol invasion in 1241 and the subsequent devastation and desolation, German settlers and noble locators were drawn into the country with privileges in order to cultivate it again. It was subordinate to the duchies of Opole , Groß-Strehlitz and Beuthen , all of which were subordinate to the Bohemian king. In 1317 a knight Markus von Plawniowitz is documented. The locally occurring lawn iron ore has been smelted since the end of the Middle Ages . The von Trach family, mentioned in 1648, also ran a hammer and a hut. In 1732 a horseshoe-shaped mansion is mentioned as a single-storey wooden building that belonged to the Barons von Goertz and Astein. In 1737 Franz-Wolfgang Freiherr von Stechow bought the property and built a two-story brick house with a chapel in 1740. In 1798 the Majorat Plawniowitz with Ruda and Biskupitz passed to Count Carl Franz von Ballestrem , whose mother was a sister of the last Stechow. Between 1882 and 1885, Count Franz von Ballestrem had the Plawniowitz Castle, which still exists today, built in the neo-Renaissance style.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 222 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 437 for Poland. Plawniowitz remained with the German Empire . In 1933 there were 1284 inhabitants. On February 12, 1936, the place was renamed Flößingen . In 1939 the place had 1,359 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Tost-Gleiwitz .

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Pławniowice and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. The castle was occupied by the Red Army in 1945 and briefly served as the headquarters of Marshal Ivan Stepanowitsch Konev , which prevented devastation. The Counts Ballestrem were expelled and expropriated. In 1950 the place came to the Katowice Voivodeship . The castle became the provisional monastery of the Benedictine nuns expelled from Lviv and later also the Augustinians from Wroclaw. In 1978 it was taken over by the Opole diocese , which carried out a renovation from 1993 and uses the building to this day as a church education center. In 1999 the place came to the Silesian Voivodeship and Powiat Krapkowicki .

Attractions

• Memory from 1888
• Pławniowice Lake
• Palace and park complex from the years 1881 to 1884
• Monument to Count Giovanni Battista Angelo Ballestrem di Castellengo

education

• 1 elementary school

Sons and daughters of the place

• Count Franz von Ballestrem (1834–1910), President of the Reichstag

Web links

Commons : Pławniowice  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Page about Pławniowice

Footnotes

1. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento from January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive )