Szonowice

Szonowice Schonowitz
Help on coat of arms	Szonowice Schonowitz
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
Powiat :	Raciborski (Ratibor)
Gmina :	Rudnik
Geographic location :	50 ° 10 '  N , 18 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 9 '35 "  N , 18 ° 9' 13"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 032
License plate :	SRC
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice-Pyrzowice

Szonowice (German Schonowitz ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Administratively, it is located in the municipality of Rudnik in the Raciborski powiat ( Racibórz district) in the Silesian Voivodeship .

geography

Townscape with wayside chapel

Old farm buildings

Townscape

Szonowice is five kilometers northwest of the township seat Rudnik , eleven kilometers northwest of the district town Racibórz (Ratibor) and 62 kilometers west of the voivodeship capital Katowice .

history

The place was created in the 15th century at the latest.

The place was mentioned in 1784 in the book Beytrage to describe Silesia as Schönowi (t) z , belonged to a count of Neuhaus and was in the principality of Ratibor. At that time it had 140 inhabitants, a farm, four farmers and 23 cottagers. In 1865 Schonowitz consisted of a manor and a village. In 1819 the manor belonged to a governor von Beym and from 1820 to chamberlain Eduard von Selchow. At that time, the place had four farms, 26 gardeners and 24 cottages, as well as a windmill, two blacksmiths, two wheelwright, a cooper, a tailor, three carpenters, two weavers, a butcher and a school founded in 1818. The church was in Mosurau.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 153 voters locally voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 58 for membership in Poland. At Gut Schonowitz, 78 voted for Germany and eight for Poland. Schonowitz remained with the German Empire after the division of Upper Silesia . In 1936 the place was renamed Schondorf in the wake of a wave of renaming during the Nazi era . Until 1945 the place was in the district of Ratibor .

In 1945 the previously German town came under Polish administration and was then attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed the Polish Szonowice . In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship. In 1975 the place came to the Katowice Voivodeship. In 1999 the place came to the re-established powiat Raciborski and the Silesian Voivodeship.

Buildings

• Castle with castle park
• Way chapel with a facade made of plaster and bricks

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ About the place
2. ↑ Friedrich Albert Zimmermann: Additions to the Description of Silesia, Volume 3 , Brieg 1784
3. ↑ Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
4. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia in 1921: Literature , table in digital form