Joachim K schrieb:
in anderer Hinsicht ist man da wieder sehr viel gro�z�giger.
Auf der Wikipedia-Schlesienseite, an der alle rumbasteln
k�nnen, liegt z.B. Auschwitz in Schlesien - und oh Wunder,
es wurde angeblich sogar von Deutschen gegr�ndet.
Schlesien – Wikipedia
Hallo Joachim,
auch wenn keine Laien herumbasteln:
Auschwitz geh�rte einst zum Herzogtum Teschen (nach dessen Teilung zum Herzogtum Auschwitz) und dieses wiederum zu Schlesien. Und dass es von Deutschen gegr�ndet wurde, klingt nur dann absonderlich, wenn man nicht weiss, dass dies z.B. auch f�r die polnische K�nigsstadt Krakau gilt (das wei� sogar die Washington Post, wie Sie unter www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/auschwit.htm nachlesen k�nnen):
"Auschwitz was neither beautiful nor noble, meaningful or magnificent, but it was German, and it was relatively prosperous.(10) Established in 1270, it had become a midsize market town of 120 to 200 houses by 1300. It was the regional center of the eastern part of the duchy of Teschen, and the duke granted the town the right to become a lead and salt depot. With this economically important privilege, Auschwitz acquired local significance. The duke also granted the town the right to levy a toll on the two most traveled bridges over the Vistula and Sola Rivers. Located directly on one trade route (Vienna-Olmutz-Ostrau-Cracow) and slightly off another (Leipzig-Breslau-Oppeln-Cracow-Lemberg), Auschwitz was well placed to profit from the economic boom of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.
When the duchy of Teschen was divided in 1316 and the area east of the Biala River became the independent duchy of Auschwitz, the town of Auschwitz had 1,300 inhabitants, with another 700 in the immediately adjacent Polish villages of Babitz, Birkenau, Dwory, Harmese, and Rajsko. Neustadt, along the lower Skawa, was slightly larger, with a population of 1,400. The two small market towns upstream, Liebenwerde, along the upper Sola, and Frauenstadt, along the upper Skawa, were much smaller, with 400 and 285 inhabitants respectively. These towns comprised the four corners of German settlement; to the north and west were older Polish villages. However prosperous its towns, the new duchy was too small to maintain itself politically. A pawn in a power struggle between Poland, Bohemia, and Hungary, Auschwitz joined the Reich in 1327. Paradoxically, the official absorption of the duchy into the Reich coincided with the decline of the German presence there. Arable land had begun to run out, and the duchy of Auschwitz ceased to be attractive to newcomers. The Black Death (1349) and a series of other epidemics led to a massive decrease in the population of Europe, and German emigration from the west to the east came to a complete halt.(11) Furthermore, throughout Europe the collapse of prices of agricultural products arid a rise in urban wages initiated a protracted agricultural depression. Farmers left the countryside for the towns. In Upper Silesia, German farmers abandoned the homesteads their ancestors had carved out of the wilderness. Many returned to the west, where opportunities beckoned."
Und unter www.uni-tuebingen.de/qg-moessingen/partner/auschwitz/osw_histor.htm liest man:
"Auschwitz, heute Oswiecim, wurde im Jahre 1270 als deutsche Stadt gegr�ndet. Diese Gr�ndung steht im Zusammenhang der Germanisierung des Raumes zwischen Oder und Weichsel, die ihren H�hepunkt im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert hatte. Knapp 200 Jahre sp�ter ging das kleine Herzogtum Auschwitz, das weder bedeutend noch m�chtig, aber eben deutsch war, dem Reich verloren und fiel an Polen. 1772, nach der ersten polnischen Teilung wurde es �sterreich zugeschlagen."
Gr��e aus Hilden,
G�nther B�hm