Góra Świętej Anny

Góra Świętej Anny ( meaning "Saint Anne's Mountain"), additional name in German: Sankt Annaberg, is a village in the Opole Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

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.

In 1940, during World War II, Germans expelled the Franciscans from the village. The Germans established and operated a forced labour camp for Poles, Jews and Soviet prisoners of war, another forced labour camp for Jewish women, and the E111 forced labour subcamp of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp in the village. 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

References

External links

• Jewish Community in Góra Świętej Anny on Virtual Shtetl
• Sanctuary of St. Anne