Góra Świętej Anny

Góra Świętej Anny
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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

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
• John Paul II
• Amphitheatre (Thingspiele) built in the abandoned limestone quarry in 1934-1938
• Silesian Uprisings by Xawery Dunikowski
  , 1955
• Lime kiln, middle of the 19th century
• natural reserve in the abandoned nephelinite
  and limestone quarry
• Museum of the Silesian Uprisings

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

References

External links

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

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