Bojanów, Silesian Voivodeship
Bojanów, Polish Bojanów, is a village in the urban and rural community Kranowitz in powiat Raciborski in Silesia, Poland.
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Geography
Bojanów located 2.5 kilometers northeast of Kranowitz and 7 kilometers southwest of Racibórz ( Ratibor ) opposite the mouth of the Bilawoda in the tin content in the region of Upper Silesia, near the Czech border, which runs about 4 km south.
History
The first documentary mention of the place name is derived from a document of the year 1313, in which a knight Gerhard von Boianow occurs as a witness. 1532 the site was listed as Bojanoff.
In 1359 Abbess Euphemia inherited from Ratibor the village Ratiborer the Dominican Sisters, who in 1370 founded a convent in Bojanów, and gave the farmers a free hand, but was subject to interest 50 years later. Woinowitz went in the aftermath into the hands of various nobles, until loskauften the villagers in 1796 along with Woinowitz and Lekartow for 191,000 dollars. This was confirmed by the Minister in directing Silesia Karl Georg von Hoym and completed on October 12, the entry into the mortgage on 5 October 1797.
1742 was the village of Prussia, and in 1816 the county Ratibor incorporated.
In the plebiscite in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921 voted in Bojanów 357 persons ( 82.3 %) to remain with Germany and 77 for the annexation to Poland. Bojanów remained with the German Reich.
From 1928 to 1929, the Christ the King church was built at the instigation of the parish priest and dean Franz Janta.
From 1933 the new Nazi rulers led by large-scale renaming of place names of Slavic origin. 1936 Bojanów was renamed War Bach.
After the Second World War, the village in 1945 came as Bojanów under Polish administration.
Today Bojanów belongs to the municipality Kranowitz, which is the municipality with the proportionally largest German minority in Silesia. In 2008, additional official place names were introduced in German language.
Population Development
The population figures Bojanows: