My ancestors came from the Polish region of Silesia in the 1800s. Is it a nice area? What are the people like?
2007-12-29 14:50:32 · 4 answers · asked by kvett26 3 in Travel ➔ Europe (Continental) ➔ Poland
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Remember that much of Silesia was German until 1945, so much of the churches and such you see will be German.
Steve, but before it was German, Silesia was Polish and the Germans with the Russians and Austrians divided Poland up and then Poland did not exist for over a hundred years due to foreign occupation.
Poland used to be one of the greatest nations in Europe, more powerful than Germany and others, which stretched from the country of Georgia in the east incorporating Ukraine, right into Germany as it is now in the west.
2007-12-29 18:42:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Remember that much of Silesia was German until 1945, so much of the churches and such you see will be German. The people are Polish. In the case of Wroclaw (Breslau in German), the people migrated from L'vov when the Soviets moved the borders. L'vov (L'viv) is now in Ukraine so the Polish people who lived there before the war were moved to Breslau (now Wroclaw).
We visited Wroclaw because of family history. The hotel desk set us up with a professor to give us a tour of the city and explain its architecture and history. The city has several important attractions including the cyclorama of Polish fighting against the Russians (moved from L'vov) and a haunting statue of a woman holding an officer with a bullet thru his helmet (again, the Russians were the enemy)
The churches are spectacular. When the Prussians took the area from the Austrians, they left all the Catholic churches and built Protestant ones because they were tolerant.
The city square is quite nice with good restaurants.
I found German useful as more Polish people speak that than speak English.
The Polish people are great. Friendly and happy to speak with you if you can find a common language.
2007-12-29 15:39:10 · answer #2 · answered by Steve A 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ohhh Slask is a beautifull area of poland u can know people that came from there by their accent
people are really polite and friendly
like 3,4 years ago that area had fluent flood in summer many people were left homeless
but now evetything is ok
2007-12-29 15:01:03 · answer #3 · answered by dAmIAnOO 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Slask?? I am 100% Polish but I have never been there when I still lived in Poland 3 years ago, but from what my granny says its very nice..also in the south, oh and they have this language, and whenthey speak in polish they have an accent, not all of them though
2007-12-31 11:25:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋