Żórawina

Żórawina ( German Rothsürben ) is a town with 1,900 inhabitants in the Province of Lower Silesia in Poland. The town is the seat of a municipality in which about 8,000 people live. Żórawina located 14.5 km south of Wroclaw city center and is one of the powiat of Wroclaw. By Żórawina the railway from Breslau leads to Strzelin, the Polish A4 motorway is one kilometer north-east of the village.

• 6.1 Literature on the transmitter Rothsürben
• 6.2 External links
• 6.3 footnotes

History

In 1937 the company was renamed in Roth Bach.

This town has a really short story.

Attractions

Trinity Church

The Trinity Church ( kościół Sw. Trójcy ) dates back to 1278th With the Reformation took place from 1597 to 1604 a reconstruction in the style of the late Renaissance or Mannerist and the investment by moats and earthen walls. The church was already in 1653 transferred back to the Catholics.

The village church is very richly decorated with wall paintings and epitaphs of the Renaissance; also found in the interior of a three -page organ loft, the parapet is decorated with 17 paintings of the life of Jesus, and a box of Protestant founder. The exterior is dominated by numerous additions to the nave. Artist at the court of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague created important works of art for the church, including a life-size bronze statue of Christ the Dutch royal sculptor Adriaen de Vries from 1603 (now in the National Museum of Warsaw) and the painting The Baptism of Christ by the court artist Bartholomäus Spranger from the year 1604 ( the original is now in the National Museum of Wroclaw, and for the Church, a copy was made from private donations. ).

After the Second World War, the church was no longer used and parts of the interior, such as the parapet of the gallery paintings were spent in museums or in the local formerly Protestant parish church, now St. Joseph Catholic Church. In the 1970s the church was briefly a branch of the National Museum Wroclaw, later, the church was taken over by the local Catholic parish and repair work has been initiated with the aim for visitors to go to the church on Sundays.

Transmitter

Rothsürben 1932 was the site of the Reichssender Wroclaw with a transmitter power of 60 kW ( later 100 kW) in the medium-wave band. The antenna tower is a free-standing wooden tower was, as with most German broadcasters at the time, used in the antenna wire was suspended. At the transmitter Rothsürben the tower was 140 feet high. He carried on its top an octagonal bronze ring with 10.6 meters in diameter for electrical extension. In 1940, a second transmitting antenna in the form of a triangular patch antenna, which was suspended on three 49.9 -meter-high steel tube masts erected. Both the wooden tower and the triangular patch antenna were used to operational setting because of the advancing Soviet troops on 7 February 1945. After 1945, the transmission on the site, which is located at 17 ° 01 ' east longitude and 50 ° 59 ' north latitude, has been resumed by Polish radio using the old wooden tower. 1976, a 260 -meter-high radio mast was erected even more radiant and increases the transmission power of the medium wave transmitter whose frequency was 1965 kHz 1206 to 200 kW. The wooden tower remained as a reserve end tower until its demolition in the fall of 1990. It was after the demolition of the wooden end tower in Ismaning until his demolition of the tallest wooden tower in the world. In 1997, the operation of the medium wave transmitter was set and now also the divided with insulators backstays of the transmission towers were, as the transmitter Żórawina only acts as FM and TV broadcasting system, replaced by those without insulators. (Source: Archives of Posts and Telecommunications ", No. 5 /6, 1973)

Community structure

For the rural community Żórawina include, inter alia, the villages Jaksonów ( Jack Schönau ), Pasterzyce ( Pasterwitz ) Przecławice ( Prisselwitz ) and Szukalice ( Tschauchelwitz ), formerly a major sugar factory. Overall, the rural community is next to the main town Żórawina from 26 districts of:

• Bratowice - Zagródki ( Barottwitz; 1937-45: Decorate )
• Bogunów ( Bogenau )
• Galowice ( Gallo joke; 1937-45: Gallen)
• Jaksonów ( Jack Schönau; 1937-45: swords )
• Jarosławice ( Jerasselwitz; 1937-45: Gerlanden )
• Karwiany - Komorowice ( Karow ancestor; 1937-45: Karben - Wasserjentsch; 1937-45: Beautiful water)
• Krajków ( Kreika; 1937-45: tube source )
• Milejowice ( Mello joke; 1937-45: Lake Linden )
• Mnichowice ( Münch joke; 1937-45: Münchau )
• Nowojowice ( Haltauf )
• Śleszów Nowy ( New Schliesa; 1937-45: New Schlesing )
• Okrzeszyce - Rynakowice ( Bismarck field - Irrschnocke; 1936-45: Majesty's )
• Polakowice ( Pollogwitz; 1937-45: Three ponds )
• Przecławice ( Prisselwitz; 1937-45: Prisselbach )
• Racławice Małe (small Rasselwitz; 1937-45: Cross Horst )
• Rzeplin - Szukalice ( Reppline - Tschauchelwitz; 1937-45: Rünenau NS)
• Śleszów Stary ( Old Schliesa; 1937-45: Old Schlesing )
• Suchy Dwór ( Althofdürr )
• Turow ( Thauer )
• Wilczków ( Wiltschau; 1937-45: Stove Hausen )
• Wilkowice ( Wilkowitz; 1937-45: Wheat base )
• Węgry ( Wangern ) Brzescie ( Liebenthal ), Marcinkowice ( Merzdorf )
• Wojkowice ( Weigwitz; 1937-45: Roßweiler )
• Żerniki Wielkie ( United Sürding )
• Medlow ( Mandelau )

Sons and daughters of the town

• Friedrich Erhardt Röder, Prussian general

References

Literature on the transmitter Rothsürben

• Walther Drechsel: tower buildings. Bauverlag GmbH, Wiesbaden ( Germany ), 1966; Pp. 224-226.