Turow (Thauer)
Turow (German name Thauer) a small village in Lower Silesia, in the district of Wroclaw, in the municipality of Żórawina. The name comes from the name of Tur. For the first time city (as Thurou) was mentioned in 1155 year bull of Pope Hadrian IV as the property of the bishop wrocławskiego.W 1265 certain Boguslaw receives from the local parish priest Jan land adjacent to the church to the site of the village on the right niemieckim.W year 1349 village princely rights were bought by the Bishop of Wroclaw Przecław from Agnieszka widow Konradzie of Borsnitz and of her sons. By the year 1810 village was owned by the Hospitaller Order in Wroclaw.
The village crosses the busy national road No. 395 connecting Wroclaw with Strzelinem.Na place a small grocery store, bus stop and bus, railway station 1,5 km (Żórawina).
View of the village from the Zorawina
Parish Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
At the highest point of the village on wysokości148 m, The parish church is the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mentioned in 1265 pw. Holy Cross, Early Gothic, built in the second half of the thirteenth wieku.W the second half of the sixteenth century, taken over by the Protestants, from 1654 the so-called. Reduction of churches Catholic again. About 1611 przesklepiono wieżę.Mur extended with the presbytery and the church of rubble and fieldstone. Oskarpowany. Four-sided tower topped with a pyramid hełmem.Nad crenelage and helmet flag of date 1611. On the eastern top of the church cross penitential.
Parish Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The wall of the church
Flag of date
Cross penitential
Cemetery
At the church cemetery surrounded by a brick and stone gothic defensive wall. At the cemetery, survived a few pre-war graves. Before entering the church, right-hand, in the grass plate with cross rite.
Kaps family tomb :
AUGUST KAPS Lehrer in Thauer 1860 – 1898, give. 24.10.1827, gesture. 17.7.1916
AGNES KAPS give. RAINS, give. 25.8.1843, gesture. 10.5.1915
Other preserved pre-war graves
Eldest (?) postwar tombstone, laurel family graves are about 50 % whole tombstones in the cemetery.
Rite plate with cross
Samojedy
In Turow's kennel Samoyed(praise. Samoyed). It is breed, belonging to the group Spitz and primitive dogs, classified section of northern sled dogs. Type lisowaty.Należą group of dogs pracujących.Samojedy suited for agility. More about samojedach here.
Advertising breeding
Samojedy
Family 🙂
Other objects
Metalwork 🙂 Czaple ?
One of the abandoned buildings
Pphu
Entrance 🙁
Alternative use of secondary raw materials 🙂
“Abbey of St. Gall. Vincent Olbin outline of the history”.Open lecture of the series “History Master Vitae - Greater Heritage Religion and Culture”.
12 February 2015 at 18.00 there will be another open lecture in the series “History Magistra Vitae - Greater Religious and Cultural Heritage”.
Lecture topic : “Abbey of St. Gall. Vincent Olbin outline of the history”.
Hall of the Pontifical Faculty of Theology , pl.Katedralny 1, Wroclaw.
The lecture will take Dariusz Misiejuk.
Lecture series "On the Ossoliński collection" – “Books with sidelocks” 11.02.2015
Ossolineum invites on 11 February at. 17.00 a lecture "Books with sidelocks", that is in the collections of Judaica Ossolineum. Catherine Podolec lecture will be given to the Department of Information Science.
Richard Hargreaves “Hitler's last stronghold. Wroclaw 1945” – Meet the author
Very interesting meeting with the author Richard Hargreaves “Hitler's last stronghold. Wroclaw 1945”.
European Tree of the Year 2015 – Vote on Oak Slav with Dębiny
From 1 of 28 February last vote for the European Tree of the Year 2015 (Tree of the Year 2015).
For qualified for the finals 14 trees from all over Europe, among them one of the Polish, and more specifically from the Lower Silesia region of the small town of Debina (district oławski, municipality Jelcz-Laskowice).
Oak Slav has about 450 years, and as they say on the contest page : “This tree is a symbol of Polish. Honors this, who for centuries fought against the Germanization of Silesia. Its origins date back to the Silesian Piast, and the name of a Slav patriotic nod in their direction. Located in the village tree Dębina, whose name is associated with the oak forests, ensures, oak that is covered by the locals worship and cherished as a living symbol of the local community. ” 🙂
Tree received almost 2700 Vote (as at 04.02.2015) and ranks fifth in the ranking.
Picture: Tom Pikuła
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