Permission was given by the Bishop of Breslau on January 31, construction began in February, and by October the building was already covered with a roof.

The parish celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1882 though a small exhibition of documents detailing its history collected by its then-priest, Father Kahl, who was an avid scholar.

[2] However, because citizens of Gemeinde Turawa overall voted for Germany, the village remained part of the Weimar Republic.

Before 1945 it belonged to the district of Landkreis Oppeln The village is situated near the Turawa Reservoir, which was begun in 1933 with construction of the dam and then completed in 1938.

It also organizes a traditional Silesian carnival known as "leading the bear" ("Wodzenie niedźwiedzia" in Polish, "Bährenführen" in German), through which it gets donations for maintenance.