Sławięcice

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Sławięcice
Slawentzitz coat of arms
Sławięcice (Poland)
Sławięcice
Sławięcice
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
District of: Kędzierzyn-Koźle
Geographic location : 50 ° 22 '  N , 18 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 22 '26 "  N , 18 ° 19' 27"  E
Residents : 2770 (2005)
Postal code : 47-230
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OK
Economy and Transport
Street : Głuchołazy - Pyskowice
Rail route : Gliwice – Kędzierzyn-Koźle
Next international airport : Katowice



Sławięcice [ swavjɛɲˈt͡ɕit͡sɛ ] ( German Slawentzitz or Schlawentzitz , 1936–1945 Ehrenforst ) is a district of the city of Kędzierzyn-Koźle ( Powiat Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski ) in the Opole Voivodeship , Poland . The previously independent town merged in 1975 with the industrial towns of Kędzierzyn and Kłodnica on the right bank of the Oder and the Klodnitz and the old town of Koźle on the left of the Oder to form the town of Kędzierzyn-Koźle.

history

The neo-Gothic parish church of St. Catherine
Slawentzitz Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection
Remains of the Sławięcice Castle
Flemmingschlösschen

Sławięcice is located twelve kilometers northeast of Cosel an der Klodnitz and was the seat of a class rule created as a Fideikommiss and since 1861 the dukes of Ujest .

The place was founded around 1250 as a rival city to the neighboring episcopal foundation Ujest by the Dukes of Opole . But the diocese was able to prevail as early as 1260 and Duke Wladislaus I had to withdraw the town charter again.

The place remained a market town and ducal chamber property with a castle from the 15th century, it was only important as a Catholic parish village.

After the Saxon general and later Minister Heinrich Jakob Reichsgraf von Flemming had acquired the estate from Countess Henchelin in 1702, he had several iron and brass hammers built in 1709 in Slawentzitz and the neighboring towns of Jakobswalde and Blechhammer (Blachownia Śląska) , the latter in addition to the latter Time when the most modern iron and steel works in Upper Silesia was considered.

On June 14, 1714, the rule came to Adolph Magnus Freiherr von Hoym in exchange for the manor Burgscheidungen with the associated Vorwerk Birkigt in the Freyburg office . Between 1716 and 1720 he had a garden palace built based on the model of Versailles on the bank of the Klodnitz opposite the palace, but it soon burned down. He also expanded the brass factories. By marriage in 1782 the estate came to the Prussian general Friedrich Ludwig von Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen , who was retired in 1806. After his death, a monumental cast iron tomb with the motto of the Hohenlohe family was erected in the palace gardens . His son August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen , rebuilt the old castle, which was burned out in 1827 after a lightning strike.

His son Hugo, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen , who ruled from 1849, obtained the title of Duke of Ujest at the coronation ceremony of Wilhelm I in 1861 . The duchy, which had its seat in Slawentzitz, united the Fideikommisse Slawentzitz, Ujest and Bitschin with an area of ​​175 km².

With the construction of the Klodnitz Canal and the railway line from Breslau via Kandrzin to Gleiwitz , which runs through the extensive forests of the estate only two kilometers south of the town, Slawentzitz developed from an insignificant market town and timber handling point to an industrial location.

The Hohenlohe house was one of the most important large industrialists in Upper Silesia and, with its entry into calamine mining and zinc smelting, became one of the world's largest zinc manufacturers. Slawentzitz was not only the seat of Hohenlohe-Öhringen, but also the administrative seat of their industrial and mining empire.

In 1921, during the Third Polish Uprising between Slawentzitz and Cosel, fierce fighting took place between the German Freikorps and the Polish insurgents led by Wojciech Korfanty around St. Annaberg .

In the course of the massive renaming of Slavic place names in Upper Silesia during National Socialism , the place received the name Ehrenforst in 1936 . In 1945 the place name was changed to Sławięcice .

The castle with its parks and greenhouses was badly damaged in the fighting in 1945, and in 1948 the ruins burned down completely.

After the Second World War, a housing estate was built in Sławięcice for the industrial workers from Kędzierzyn and Blachownia Śląska (Blechhammer), which increased the area of ​​the place from 10.76 km² (1931) to 28.58 km² (1959).

In 1973 Sławięcice was granted town charter again after an interruption of over 700 years, and since 1959 the place was already a town- like settlement .

Population numbers

year 1787 1860 1885 1933 1939 1961 1971
population 384 2,000 2,190 2,482 2,548 2,703 3,700
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Attractions

  • The Catholic parish church of St. Katharina was built in the neo-Gothic style in 1864–69 based on a design by the architect Friedrich von Schmidt .
  • Only one entrance portico remained from the castle. The extensive landscaped park also includes the ruins of the mausoleum, a preserved gardener's house and the peculiar baroque garden pavilion from 1802.

Personalities

literature

  • G. Wlodarczyk: The burned down Versailles castle in Slawentzitz Upper Silesia , 1920.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Gathy (Ed.): Musical Conversations Lexicon: Encyclopedia of the entire music science for artists, art lovers and the educated. 2nd Edition. Niemeyer, Hamburg 1840, p. 408 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  2. ^ Stefan Antweiler: A forgotten composer. The Schumann contemporary WE Scholz. Bibliographical-thematic directory. Are-Verlag, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-924522-77-3 .