Uraz | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Lower Silesian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Trzebnica |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Oborniki Śląskie |
Coordinates: | 51.25°N 67°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Population Total: | 949 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Uraz is a village (former city) in the administrative district of Gmina Oborniki Śląskie, within Trzebnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.[1] It lies on the Oder River, approximately 7km (04miles) south-west of Oborniki Śląskie, 16km (10miles) south-west of Trzebnica, and 19km (12miles) north-west of the regional capital Wrocław.
The main church, the Church of Archangel Michael, was mentioned in 1218. The present church was built in 1750–1789 in the Baroque style. It was restored in the 19th century, but burned down in 1945. It was subsequently rebuilt in 1951-1953 by the priest Franciszek Dorżyński. In 1970 a new interior with polychrome was added. In 1997, the church was flooded to a height of 40 cm. In the years 1997–2000 it was renovated. In the church there are sculptures brought by repatriates from Navaria, near Lviv.[2] There is the ruins of a castle, Zamek Uraz, (Uraz Castle), dated to 1319, which was destroyed by the 1950s.[3]