Sacrau Turawa

Sacrau Turawa Zakrzów Turawski
Help on coat of arms	Sacrau Turawa Zakrzów Turawski
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Opole
Gmina :	Turawa
Area :	12.37  km²
Geographic location :	50 ° 46 '  N , 18 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '0 "  N , 18 ° 13' 39"  E
Height :	203-213 m npm
Residents :	636 (March 31, 2013)
Postal code :	46-046
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPO
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

Schrotholzkirche St. Peter and Paul

Rear view of the church with cemetery

Sacrau Turawa ( Polish Zakrzów Turawski , 1936–1945 Hochfelde OS ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Zakrzów Turawski located in the municipality of Turawa in Opole County (County Opole) in the Polish province of Opole . Sacrau Turawa has been officially bilingual (Polish and German) since 2012.

geography

Geographical location

Sacrau Turawa is located in the historical region of Upper Silesia in the Opole region . The place is 11 kilometers east of the municipality Turawa and 23 kilometers northeast of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole ( Opole ). Sacrau Turawa lies in the Nizina Śląska ( Silesian Plain ) within the Równina Opolska ( Opole Plain ).

Neighboring places

Neighboring villages of Sacrau Turawa are Kadlub Turawa ( Kadłub Turawski ) in the west, Ellguth Turawa ( Ligota Turawska ) in the northwest , Koschütz ( Kosice ) in the east and Biestrzynnik (Ringwalde) in the south .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1574 or 1593.

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Sacrau Turawa and most of Silesia fell to Prussia . The Schrotholzkirche was built in 1759.

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Zakrzów Turawski from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a Catholic scrap wood church, a Vorwerk, a pitch oven and 51 houses in the village. In the same year, 486 people lived in Sacrau Turawa, five of them Protestant and five Jewish. In 1847 a school was built in the village. In 1865 the place, then written as Sackrau-Turawa , had six farms and 20 gardeners and 11 cottagers. In 1874 the district of Bierdzan was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Bierdzan, Ellguth-Turawa, Kadlub-Turawa and Sackrau-Turawa and the manor districts of Bierdzian, Ellguth-Turawa, Kadlub-Turawa and Sackrau-Turawa and the Sackrau-Turawa colony.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 271 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 225 for Poland. Sakrau-Turawa remained with the German Empire . In 1933 there were 874 inhabitants. On June 15, 1936, the place was renamed Hochfelde / Upper Silesia . In 1939 the place had 938 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Zakrzów Turawski and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Opolski . On March 8, 2012, the place was also given the official German place name Sacrau Turawa .

Sights and monuments

• The Roman Catholic St. Peter and Paul Church is a scrap wood church . The church was built in 1759. The two-bay nave has a choir closed on three sides. On the west side is a square bell tower with a low tent roof and an onion helmet. Inside, the church has a Rococo pulpit from the second half of the 18th century, a Baroque baptismal font from the 18th century and two side altars from the mid-19th century. The Schrotholzkirche has been a listed building since 1953.
• Nepomuk Chapel
• Two-story bell chapel
• Wayside shrine
• Half-timbered houses
• Wayside crosses

Web links

Commons : Sacrau Turawa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the municipality of Turawa (Polish) (accessed on May 2, 2018)
2. ^ Website of the Turawa Municipality, Zakrzów Turawski - Informacje o wsi ( Memento of the original from May 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 10, 2012  
3. ↑ Website of the community ( Memento of the original of July 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Johann Georg Knie : Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, spots, cities and other places of the royal family. Preuss. Province of Silesia. Breslau 1845, p. 571.
5. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
6. ↑ Territorial District Biedrzan
7. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Opole district (Polish Opole). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
9. ^ Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , p. 1169
10. ↑ List of Monuments of the Opole Voivodeship p. 101 (Polish)