Góra Świętej Anny

Place in Opole Voivodeship, Poland

50°27′22″N 18°10′03″E / 50.45611°N 18.16750°E / 50.45611; 18.16750Country

PolandVoivodeshipOpoleCountyStrzelce CountyGminaGmina LeśnicaPopulation

(2006)

• Total580Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal code

47-154

Area code+48 77Car platesOSTHighways

Góra Świętej Anny (Polish: [ˈɡura ˈɕfʲɛntɛj ˈannɨ] meaning "Saint Anne's Mountain") is a village in the Opole Voivodeship, in southern Poland.^[1]

The village is located on the hill from which its name derives. A popular sanctuary, with a statue of Saint Anne and a calvary, is located on its top.

The settlement lies within the protected area called Góra Świętej Anny Landscape Park. This is also one of the official Polish Historical Monuments (Pomnik historii).

History

Following World War I and the re-emergence of the sovereign Poland, while still part of the Weimar Republic, the hill was the site of the Battle of Annaberg in 1921 during the Silesian Uprisings. A museum dedicated to the uprising was opened in the village in 1961.^[2]

In 1940, during World War II, Germans expelled the Franciscans from the village.^[2] The Germans established and operated a forced labour camp for Poles, Jews and Soviet prisoners of war,^[2] another forced labour camp for Jewish women,^[3] and the E111 forced labour subcamp of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp in the village.^[4] The village was eventually restored to Poland after the war in 1945.

Main sights

15th-century church dedicated to Saint Anne
17th-century Franciscan monastery and museum
Calvary from the 17th and 18th centuries with 33 chapels
Lourdes grotto and monument of John Paul II
Amphitheatre (Thingspiele) built in the abandoned limestone quarry in 1934-1938
Granite monument of the Silesian Uprisings by Xawery Dunikowski, 1955
Lime kiln, middle of the 19th century
Geological natural reserve in the abandoned nephelinite and limestone quarry
Museum of the Silesian Uprisings

Gallery

Silesian Uprisings monument
Saint Anne church
Monastery
Chapel of the Coronation of Mary
Chapel of St. Raphael
Landscape

References

^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
^ ^a ^b ^c "St. Annaberg (Männerlager)" (in German). Retrieved 20 March 2020.
^ "St. Annaberg (Frauenlager)" (in German). Retrieved 20 March 2020.
^ "Working Parties". Lamsdorf.com. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2021.