Woinowitz
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Racibórz | ||
| Gmina : | Kranowitz | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 3 ' N , 18 ° 9' E | ||
| Residents : | 1050 () | ||
| Postal code : | 47-470 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 32 | ||
| License plate : | SRC | ||
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| Next international airport : | Katowice | ||
Woinowitz , in Polish Wojnowice , is a village in the urban and rural municipality of Kranowitz in the powiat Raciborski in the Silesian Voivodeship , Poland .
geography
Woinowitz is located 4.5 kilometers northeast of Kranowitz and 5.5 kilometers southwest of Racibórz (Ratibor) in the Upper Silesia region , near the border with the Czech Republic, which runs around 6 km south. To the north of the village the Troy flows into the Zinna , on which Woinowitz is located.
history
The village was first mentioned in a document by the Dominican monastery in Ratibor in 1370. Woinowitz is said to have had a church and a parish even then . In 1416 it was mentioned as Woynowicz .
Over the years, Woinowitz passed into the possession of various noblemen until the villagers ransomed each other with Bojanow and Lekartow for 191,000 thalers in 1796. However, since the money had been borrowed and could not be repaid later, it fell back to its former owner after an auction.
In 1742 the village came to Prussia and in 1816 it was assigned to the Ratibor district.
In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 511 people (76.0%) voted in Woinowitz to remain with Germany and 161 to join Poland. Woinowitz remained with the German Empire.
From 1933 onwards, the new National Socialist rulers carried out large-scale renaming of place names of Slavic origin. In 1936 Woinowitz was renamed Weihendorf OS .
After the Second World War , the village, for which there was fierce fighting in the spring of 1945, came under Polish administration as Wojnowice .
Today it belongs to Woinowitz, which is located on two railway lines starting from Racibórz, one in the direction of Troppau (former Sudetenland - today's Czech Republic) has been closed and the other in the direction of Groß-Peterwitz and further via Bauerwitz, Leobschütz and Deutsch-Rasselwitz is only operated sporadically in freight traffic to the municipality of Kranowitz, which is the municipality with the proportionally largest German minority in the Silesian Voivodeship. In 2008, additional official place names in German were introduced, although the official place name Woinowitz has not yet been recognized by the Ministry of the Interior, as the municipality incorrectly stated the place name as "Wojnowitz" when submitting the application .
Population development
The population of Woinowitz ':
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Attractions
- The Catholic parish church for the Exaltation of the Cross was built from 1793 to 1794. The builder was Franz Bolko and the carpenter Franz Hubner, both of whom came from Ratibor. The baroque building was expanded in 1931 by adding a transept and a new choir. Two yokes of the nave and the main facade with the front tower with onion dome still belong to the original baroque building.
Sons and daughters of the place
- Otto Paul Wilhelm Höhne (1895–1969), major general
- Roman Chwalek (1898–1974), Minister for Labor of the GDR
References
Web links
- Information about Woinowitz (German, Polish)
- Woinowitz Castle (polonish)
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c Cf. parish website accessed on October 25, 2009
- ↑ Cf. Johann Georg Knie: Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, towns, cities and other places of the royal family. Preuss. Province of Silesia. Wroclaw 1845
- ↑ See results of the referendum ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). on October 25, 2009
- ↑ Sources of the population figures : 1822: [1] - 1830: [2] - 1844: [3] - 1855, 1861: [4] - 1910: [5] - 1933, 1939: [6]
