Łubowice, Silesian Voivodeship

Łubowice [wubɔˈvit͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rudnik, within Racibórz County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

In the 1921 Upper Silesia plebiscite, 75.5% of the residents voted to rejoin Poland,[3] which just regained independence following World War I, however the village remained within Germany in the interbellum.

[4] The site of a Wehrmacht artillery post in the late days of World War II, the castle was heavily bombed and burnt down completely during the Red Army Vistula-Oder Offensive.

On 14 November 1989, during the Revolutions of 1989, the Polish prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and German chancellor Helmut Kohl agreed to preserve the common heritage at Łubowice.

A Polish Eichendorff association was founded and an Upper Silesian cultural and meeting centre opened at Łubowice on 12 July 2000.

The palace c. 1939