Wrocław County

Turow (Thauer)

Published 22/02/2015

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.

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