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Oberglogau Private Golf Course.
Głogówek, German: Oberglogau, is a small historic town in what today is southern Poland. Since the mid-18th century Oberglogau was under Prussian control and became part of the German Empire in 1871.
After the First World War, a referendum was held in 1921 to decide the future state affiliation of Upper Silesia.The towns ordynat Hans Georg Graf von Oppersdorff, spoke out in favour of ceding Upper Silesia to Poland, as Upper Silesia was "better protected in Catholic Poland than in Protestant, faithless northern Germany." Nevertheless, most of the inhabitants voted in favour of remaining with Germany.
It was the same Hans Georg Graf von Oppersdorff, since 1895 married toDorothea Leotinge Maria Radziwill, who asked the then professional of the Berlin Golf Club, Cuthbert Strachan Butchart, originally from Carnoustie, to lay out a 9-hole golf course. The existence of the golf course was first confirmed by Butcharts commercial advert in the 1911 yearbook of the German Golf Federation.
The German magazine Sport im Bild, 1913, No 35, confirmed the existence of the golf course at Oberglogau "...and the equally first-class golf course in Oberglogau in Silesia on the estate of Count Oppersdorff."
Towards the end of the Second World War, Oberglogau was occupied by the Red Army in the spring of 1945. After the end of the war, Oberglogau was placed under Polish administration by the Soviet Union, which introduced the name Głogówek.
Interesting to compare the images below, taken from the same place.
Historic picture.
Recent picture.
Christoph Meister, December 2023