Sister joke

Sister joke Zwiastowice
	Sister joke Zwiastowice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Prudnik
Gmina :	Upper Logau
Geographic location :	50 ° 20 '  N , 17 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 20 '9 "  N , 17 ° 57' 59"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPR
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

Chapel and monument to the fallen

Entrance to the village with a sign

crossroads

Sisterwitz ( Polish Zwiastowice ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Sister joke is in the municipality of Oberglogau (Głogówek) in the powiat Prudnicki (Neustadt OS district) in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

Sister joke is eight kilometers east of the municipality of Oberglogau , 28 kilometers east of the district town of Prudnik (Neustadt OS) and 37 kilometers south of the voivodeship capital Opole (Opole).

The Straduna stream , a tributary of the Oder, flows west of Sisterwitz .

Neighboring places

Neighboring villages of Sisterwitz are in the west Friedersdorf (Biedrzychowice) , in the northwest Rosnochau (Rozkochów) , in the northeast Twardawa , in the south the estate Sisterwitz and Trawniki (Trawnig).

history

The place was first mentioned on September 8, 1223 in a document written in Leubus as "Zuestoua". In this document, at the request of Abbot Günther von Leubus, Lorenz, Bishop of Breslau, determined the district of St. Mary's Church in Casimir , to which Sisterwitz was assigned. In 1571 it was mentioned in a document as a "sister joke". Sisterwitz was owned by the Cistercians until 1810, the year of the secularization by Prussia in Silesia . In 1818, it had a farm, twelve farmers, 19 gardeners, four cottagers and a water mill. In 1830, Count von Harrach zu Rosnochau , who was the owner of the Quellenwitz domain, created a new farm that was named Oberhof. In 1838 a Catholic school was built. In 1865 the place had twelve farmers, 21 gardeners and ten cottagers. At that time the Catholic school had 59 students.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 219 eligible voters voted to remain in Germany and 62 to belong to Poland. Sister joke remained with the German Reich . In 1933 there were 452 inhabitants. In 1939 the place had 449 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Neustadt OS

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration, was renamed Zwiastowice and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place became part of the Opole Voivodeship , and since 1999 it has belonged to the re-established Powiat Prudnicki . On April 22, 2009 , German was introduced as the second official language in the municipality of Oberglogau , to which Sisterwitz belongs. On December 1, 2009, the place was also given the official German place name, sister joke .

Sights and monuments

• Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built in 1853 with a baroque altar
• Path chapel from 1857
• Fallen memorial from 1929
• Wayside crosses
• Domain building from 1829

Excavation finds

• In 1908, the landowner Marx discovered a 10 cm long, thick-nosed flint ax of the Nordic type with a yellowish-brown color from the Stone Age.

Personalities

• Paulfranz Grzimek (1859–1912), German lawyer and notary, Judiciary in Neisse, father of Bernhard Grzimek

Others

The zoologist Bernhard Grzimek from Neisse, as he himself wrote in the books Auf den Mensch and Mein Leben , often spent his childhood holidays with his siblings on the Sisterwitz estate, 50 kilometers east of Neisse. This was owned by his family and was converted into a country estate and was a special place for him and his five siblings. The family lived on the estate for more than 100 years. After a zoo directors conference in Prague in 1971 with his future wife Erika and on a family trip in the early 1980s, Bernhard Grzimek visited Sisterwitz and looked for the graves of his parents and ancestors in the cemetery in Twardawa .

Web links

Commons : sister joke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Codex diplomaticus Silesiae, Volume 7 (Edition 1)
2. ^ Geographical-statistical handbook on Silesia and the County of Glatz, Volume 2 ; Breslau and Jauer 1818
3. ^ Official Journal of the District President in Opole, Volume 15
4. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
5. ^ Website of the municipality , accessed in June 2012
6. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Neustadt district in Upper Silesia (Polish Prudnik). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ↑ List of monuments of the Opole Voivodeship , p. 108 (PDF; 515 kB).
9. ^ The prehistoric and early historical settlement of the Neustadt OS district
10. ↑ Bernhard Grzimek: Mein Leben , Piper Verlag, 2009 online
11. ↑ The man who loved animals: Bernhard Grzimek