Wojnowice, Silesian Voivodeship
Woinowitz, Polish Wojnowice, is a village in the urban and rural community Kranowitz in powiat Raciborski in Silesia, Poland.
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Geography
Woinowitz is 4.5 kilometers northeast of Kranowitz and 5.5 kilometers southwest of Racibórz ( Ratibor ) in the region of Upper Silesia, near the Czech border, which runs about 6 km south. North of the village flows the Troy in the tin, at the turn Woinowitz is located.
History
The first written mention of the village was carried out by the Dominican monastery in Ratibor in 1370. Woinowitz should have even then has a church and parish. 1416, it was mentioned as Woynowicz.
Woinowitz went on over the years in the hands of various nobles, until loskauften the villagers in 1796 along with Bojanów and Lekartow for 191,000 dollars. This was, however, borrowed the money and could not be paid back later, it fell after an auction back to the former owners.
In 1742, the village of Prussia, and in 1816 the county Ratibor allocated.
In the plebiscite in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921 voted in Woinowitz 511 persons ( 76.0 %) to remain with Germany and 161 for the annexation to Poland. Woinowitz remained with the German Reich.
From 1933 the new Nazi rulers led by large-scale renaming of place names of Slavic origin. 1936 Woinowitz was ordained in village O.S. renamed.
After the Second World War came the village in 1945 to which was heavy fighting in the spring of 1945, when Wojnowice under Polish administration.
Today Woinowitz, this is due to two outgoing Ratibor railways part, the direction Opava (former Sudetenland - today's Czech Republic) a is closed and the other direction wholesale Peterwitz and on about Bauerwitz, Leobschutz and German - Rasselwitz operated only sporadically in freight transport is, at the community Kranowitz, which is the municipality with the proportionally largest German minority in Silesia. In 2008, additional official place names were introduced in German language, the recognition of the official place name Woinowitz by the Home Office is still pending, as the community the place name incorrectly as " Wojnowitz " declared in its application.
Population Development
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Attractions
- The Catholic parish church for the Elevation of the Cross was built from 1793 to 1794. The architect was Franz Bolko and master carpenter Franz Hubner, both of which came from Ratibor. The baroque building was expanded in 1931 by adding a transept and a new choir. For baroque original building still are today two bays of the nave and the main facade with the front tower with an onion dome.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Roman Chwalek (1898-1974), Minister of Labour of the GDR