Rachowitz

Rachowitz Rachowice
Help on coat of arms	Rachowitz Rachowice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
Powiat :	Gliwice (Gliwice)
Gmina :	Kieferstädtel
Geographic location :	50 ° 18 ′  N , 18 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 38 "  N , 18 ° 29 ′ 39"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 032
License plate :	SGL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

Historical picture of the Dominial Speicher

The Trinity Church

The Dominialspeicher

The Fallen Monument

Lourdes grotto

Rachowitz (Polish: Rachowice ) is a village in Upper Silesia . It is located in the municipality of Kieferstädtel in the Powiat Gliwicki (district of Gliwice) in the Silesian Voivodeship .

geography

Rachowitz is located around four kilometers west of the municipality of Kieferstädtel , 14 kilometers west of the district town of Gliwice ( Gleiwitz ) and 37 kilometers northwest of the voivodeship capital Katowice ( Kattowitz ).

history

The place originated in the second half of the 13th century. 1295–1305 the place was mentioned in the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis ( tithe register of the diocese of Breslau ) as "Rachowitz".

In 1571 the place became the property of the von Larisch family, in 1602 Orzeski von Syrin acquired the place. The place was mentioned in 1783 in the book Beytrage describing Silesia as Rachowi (t) z , was in the Tost district and had 204 inhabitants, a farm with the name Poremba, 13 farmers, 14 gardeners, a Catholic church, and a Catholic school Mill. In 1818 the place was mentioned as Rachowitz . In 1865, Rachowitz consisted of a church village and an estate district with a Dominialvorwerk. At this point in time the village had nine farm positions, twelve gardener positions, five quarter farm positions, two half farm positions and 20 cottages. There was also a Kretschmer (innkeeper), two blacksmiths, a carpenter, a wheelwright, a cooper, two weavers, two carpenters, a saddler, a shoemaker, a miller and a one-class school with 96 students.

In the early 20th century there was a children's rest home in Rachowitz. In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 109 eligible voters voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 251 for membership in Poland. Rachowitz stayed with the German Empire . On February 12, 1936, the place was renamed Buchenlust in the course of a wave of renaming during the Nazi era . During the Second World War, Buchenlust had a prisoner-of-war camp / command E149, where the prisoners had to do forest work. When the Red Army marched in, they set fire to the rectory. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Tost-Gleiwitz .

In 1945 the until then German place came under Polish administration and was then attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed the Polish Rachowice . In 1950 the place came to the Katowice Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Gliwicki and the new Silesian Voivodeship.

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic Trinity Church made of scrap wood and masonry. Sacristy and choir from the 15th and 16th centuries in Gothic style. Wooden bell tower. Baroque interior.
• Pathway chapel from the 19th century
• Memorial to the German doctor, naturalist and folklorist Julius Roger at the place where he died in the forest. Duke Viktor I of Ratibor had the monument erected in memory of Rogers.
• Monument to the fallen of the First and Second World War
• Baroque sculpture of St. John Nepomuk from the 18th century
• Sculpture of a saint
• Mary sculpture
• Wayside crosses
• Dominial store made of scrap wood from the first half of the 19th century
• A wooden grotto
• Marian grotto made of stone or Lourdes grotto with a figure of Mary and altar
• A wayside shrine
• Several imposing trees of great girth, including oaks and linden trees

education

• A primary school

societies

• Local branch of the DFK Silesia

coat of arms

The coat of arms or seal shows an arrow or lance pointing upwards. In the latest version it shows the arrow in black and red on a gold background.

Web links

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

• Site of the place

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Ernst Tramp: Additions to the Description of Silesia, Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
2. ^ Geographical-statistical handbook on Silesia and the county of Glatz, Volume 2 , 1818
3. ↑ Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
4. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )