Racibórz: Guide, Hotels, Map & Photos
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PLN 137 - 300 Hotel Ragos
 With just 500 metres from the centre of Racibórz, the Hotel Ragos features rooms with free wired internet, satellite TV and a refrigerator. Guests ca… MorePLN 169 - 234 Hotel Polonia Raciborz
 Hotel Polonia Racibórz is located in Racibórz, within short walking distance of the Old Market Square and the shopping area. Its rooms come with sat… More | ||||||||||||
Racibórz: Guide
Racibórz (, ) is a town in southern Poland with 65,100 inhabitants (1995) situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Katowice Voivodeship (1975-1998).
The name Racibórz is of Slavic languages|Slavic origin and comes from the name of Duke Racibor, the city's founder.
Racibórz was one of five strongholds of the Slavic Golezyce (Golenshitse, Holasici in Czech language|Czech), a proto-Polish tribe. Racibórz, as a stronghold, was mentioned in a work of the "Bavarian Geographer" in 845. It was the first historical capital of Upper Silesia. The Duchy of Racibórz was established by Duke Mieszko Plątonogi in 1172 AC. The city was granted municipal privileges in 1217. From 1299 Racibórz was ruled by its own city council. The last duke of the Polish branch of the Piast dynasty died in 1336 and from that time until 1521 the duchy and the city were ruled by the Czech branch of the dynasty. Racibórz was also ruled by the Polish duke of Opole. The first coin with the Polish description "MILOST" was issued in Racibórz, in 1211 as well the first Polish national anthem "Gaude mater Polonia" which was written ca. 1260-1270|70 in Latin by a brother from the Dominican Order|Dominican monastery in Racibórz.
After the Medieval Germanized linguistically and culturally. It came under Austrian rule, but in the 18th century was finally ceded to Prussia. Prussian policy increased the Germanification.
The famous German poet Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, a Roman Catholic Silesian nobleman, was born at Schloss Lubowitz in Ratibor in the 18th century. Until 1945 Ratibor remained Germany|German, and the majority of its inhabitants were Germans or Germanized Upper Silesians.
After end of expulsion of Germans by both Czech and Polish nationalist and communist militias started and the region were virtually ethnically cleansed from Germans, as the town, despite a history of hundreds of years of German rule, culture and majority, came to lie far into the territory of the post-war Republic of Poland as defined at the Potsdam Conference.
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