Szombierki

Szombierki Schomberg
	Szombierki Schomberg
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
District of:	Bytom
Geographic location :	50 ° 20 '  N , 18 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 20 '11 "  N , 18 ° 53' 44"  E
Residents :
Postal code :	41-907
License plate :	SY
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

Schomberg Castle, 19th century

The remains of the Szombierki coal mine

Upper Silesia power plant around 1930

Szombierki (German: Schomberg ) is a district and urban district of Bytom ( Bytom ) in Upper Silesia . Until 1951 it was an independent municipality, in the same year it was incorporated into the city of Bytom.

history

In 1828 the Catholic school was opened. The Schomberg manor has been owned by Countess Schaffgotsch-Godulla since 1848 . In 1865 Schomberg consisted of a village and a manor and had five farmers, eight half-farmers and 16 gardeners. The place also had a beer brewery and a brandy distillery. The Schomberger coal mine was there. In 1869 the Hohenzollerngrube coal mine was put into operation. In 1905 the place had 3837 inhabitants. In 1920 the Upper Silesia power plant went into operation.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 702 eligible voters voted to remain in Germany and in 1996 to join Poland. At Gut Schomberg, 244 people voted for Germany and 371 for Poland. After the new border was drawn, Schomberg remained with the German Empire . In 1933 there were 8,081 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Beuthen .

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Szombierki and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. The Schomberg Castle was destroyed in 1945. In 1948 the name was changed to Chruszczów (valid until the 1990s). 1950 the place came to the Voivodeship Katowice. In 1951 it was incorporated into the city of Bytom.

Buildings and sights

• The Herz-Jesu-Kirche , neo-Romanesque church from 1904.
• Margaret Church
• Marian column
• Chapel from 1863 in neo-Gothic style
• The former town hall from 1913.
• The Szombierki power plant (Upper Silesia Power Plant) from 1920.
• The remains of the former Szombierki (Hohenzollerngrube) coal mine with the Krystyna (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Schacht) shaft from 1929.
• The Volkspark Lönshütte from the second half of the 19th century.

societies

• GKS Szombierki Bytom

Personalities

• Johannes Schweter (* 1901), German politician (NSDAP)
• Carl-Heinz Stephan (1904–1989), German mining manager

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865.
2. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Beuthen in Upper Silesia. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).