The Roman Catholic Church of St. Lawrence parish.

     The Roman Catholic Church  of St. Lawrence parish, belonging to the Trzebnica deanery from the fifteenth century. The last reconstruction of the present brick facility took place at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The fact of Franz-Georg birth in 1901, his mother Countess Ema funded a beautiful marble baptismal fonts with appropriate initials for the St. Lawrence church in Cerekwica. It was made in Munich.

     The mausoleum in the form of a chapel at the church cemetery is a second memorial.

 

      In 1910 a bell tower with three bells was built, one of them was cast after World War I to honor the inhabitants of the Cerekwica parish who died in this war. During World War II, two bells were removed and melted for the war purposes. Thorough repair of foundations, external walls and tower of the church was carried out in the spring and summer of 2002. An oil painting depicting St. Lawrence located on the main altar survived the war.

     Stations of the Way of the Cross, stained-glass windows of the apostles Peter and Paul, the Annunciation of Virgin Mary, Holy Family and Sacred Jesus Heart were made ​​in Wroclaw in the years 1895-1903. In 2006, the church interior was renovated. In 2010 the renovation of the church exterior was made.

Present pastor - Zbigniew KONDRACKI

Ballestrems palace.

         

     Local indebted knights goods (489ha) with the palace were bought by magnate Earl Francis II from Maksymilian von Debschitz . He bought it for 1 milion marks for his son Earl John Baptist (1866-1929) who was married to baron Ema von Saurma von zu der Jeltsch (1869-1946). Earl John Baptist was an honorary knight of the Order of Malta and the captain of the Prussian army IV Grenadier Regiment of the Queen Augusta. In 1905, he bought an estate in neighboring Sędzice (307 ha). One of the main shafts of coal mine "Brandenburg" in Ruda śląska was named with his name. In 1901 they bore a son, Francis-Georg, who in 1925 married baron Julianna von Saurma-Jeltsch of the year 1904 born in Laskowice Oławskie. They lived in neighboring Siędzice. In 1933, in Wroclaw the second child of John Baptist and Ema, the daughter of Maria-Elisabeth was born. Then the second daughter Rosemarie was born in Sędzice. Children fled west with their mother Ema from the Red Army in January 1945.

        

     On 12 January 1945 it was ordered to prepare to evacuate residents of Cerekwica and Jan. 21 at -20'C frost,  a long fleet of carts pulled by horses, oxen and cows set off. They ran West from the Reich, with no hope of return. The noble family with service probably joined this rolling stock. It is not known how many residents remained in the city. Not long afterwards, Soviet troops appeared in the village. They plundered everywhere. All the houses on the main street and Ballestrem palace were set on fire and burned to the ground. After the war, the palace ruins were demolished and today there is no sign of it. Ruined by PGR manors farms remained in its neighborhood. Hostilities   were expected in Lower Silesia and the valuable collections of libraries of Wroclaw was stored in the palace in Cerekwica during World War 2. Everything was burnt irrevocably together with a castle.

Cerekwica ( Lower Silesia )                                   

Cerekwica - a village in Poland, Lower Silesian Voivodeship , in the East Trzebnicki , in the municipality of Trzebnica .
Country Poland
Lower Silesia Province
district trzebnicki
Municipality Trzebnica
Zone code (+48 ) 71
Postal code 55-100
Plates DTR

In the years 1975-1998 the town belonged to Wroclaw province .

Name of the village Cerekwica shows that the church existed here already in the early Middle Ages ( XI / XII century). Presumably he was wooden , built in the fifteenth century brick church . March 12, 1262 , Prince Henry III White issued a permit for the location Cerekwica on the Magdeburg Law .

Quoted name of the village over the centuries :

• Circvice - 1155 - The first historical mention preserved .
• Cirquich - 1255
• Cyrcviza - 1228
• Cerekuiz - 1243
• Cerequiz - 1245
• Cerekuicz - 1247
• Cerequic - 1251
• Cerekcuiz - 1267
• Cyrekwicz - 1301
• Cyrquice - 1305 in the book of the Latin Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis (Polish Book salaries Bishopric of Wrocław ) written in the time of Bishop Henry of Wierzbna in the years 1295-1305 .
• Cirquicz - 1326
• Czerquicz - 1334
• Cirkvicz - 1355
• Cirkowicz - 1417
• Cirquitz - 1748
• Zirkwitz - 1789
• Cerekwica - 1946

about 1862 years

2013 ( in the photograph marked fragment of the previous photo )

Monuments                                                                                        

According to the register of the National Institute for Heritage list of monuments it is inscribed  :

•  Roman Catholic couples . pw . St . Lawrence
• Ballestrem palace already non-existent .
• Monument to war with the " First World War "

Introduction

1. Group members:

  ♥ Maria Gawron,
  ♥ Karolina Seredyńska,
  ♥ Klaudia Trelińska,
  ♥ Mateusz Banaś,
  ♥ Jakub Marek,
  ♥ Michał Wrzesiński;

2. Introduction:

1140r. - Foundation of Cerekwica. The city had rights to expand itself, but it gave them to Trzebnica some time later.

1440r. - The church was built

1864r. - The palace was built .

1900r. - Balleftrems bought agricultural property and the palace. They helped to build

vicarage, school and the church tower. They paid about 30% of the entire amount.

1929r. - On 27-th of July John Baptist died. He was from the house of Balleftren, and he was the owner of such huge properties as: Cerekwica, Sędzice, Pstrzejowice.

♥ Representative in the community,

♥ Creator of volunteer firefighters,

♥ The person who brought power to houses,

♥ Patron of the Catholic parish,

♥ He had the Iron Cross; 

1945r. - The Germans left Cerekwica, and the Russians invaded it. They set the palace on fire. It was burning for 19 hours, from 4 p.m. to 11a.m.. * In this year the cinema was built in the church.*

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