Krzewina, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Krzewina [ kʃɛv ʲ ina ] ( German Grunau ) is a village in the municipality in Poland Bogatynia ( Reichenau ) in Poland. It is located on the Lusatian Neisse River opposite the city of Ostritz.
Located outside the village railway station Krzewina Zgorzelecka is the City Ostritz, whose name he also contributed to 1945 the station. Here keep passenger trains of the East German Railways ( ODEG ), the Polish State Railways (PKP ) have set the passenger. Between two places since 1989 a border crossing for pedestrians and cyclists.
History
The first mention of Grunau dates back to 1294th The village, which was until 1380 owned by the noble family of Grunau determined, after their extinction finally in 1396 to the monastery of St. Marienthal.
Grunau was a Catholic parish village to which even Schönfeld ( Lutogniewice ) Trattlau ( Kostrzyna ) Wanscha ( Spytków ) and Reutnitz ( Reczyn ) were gepfarrt. 1739 a new church was built for the electoral Saxon court painter Gabriel Ambrose Donath, the altarpiece painted. The image of the Beheading of John the Baptist appeared in the parish too dark, so that they could replace the 1871 with another portrait of this saint, which made a Ostritzer painter.
1857 originated in the monastic Grunau an orphanage, which moved into the monastery in 1866. In its place, the Albert club built a hospital that served as a military hospital during the First World War. With inaugurated on October 15, 1875 Neisse Valley Railway between Nick Risch ( Hagenwerder ) and Zittau Grunau received a railroad connection. During National Socialism in the place was a Reich Labor Service camp. 1933 lived in Grunau 498 inhabitants, in 1939 there were 486 Until 1945, the village belonged to Amtshauptmannschaft Zittau in Saxony. As a result of demarcation along the Oder and Neisse rivers, the Upper Lusatian village of Polish and German inhabitants were expelled. Through the gift of lying on the east bank of the Neisse part of the rail link to the PKP in 1946 resumed since September 9, 1945, passenger services were set on this piece. In 1948 it came to the resumption of the path, the German passenger trains had to drive on the Polish territory in the closed state and with drawn curtains. Since 1950, a stop on the Krzewina Zgorzelecka station was made possible again. For this, the Neisse bridge between Ostritz and about 100 meters from the Polish side railway station was opened on the timetables of trains for the entry and exit and watched the process from the Polish border protection. A border crossing did not exist.
1957 took over the Polish State Railways, the new route Zawidów - Bogatynia in operation.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Gabriel Ambrose Donath (1684-1760), court painter Augustus the Strong