Łąka (Otmuchów)

Łąka Wiesau
	Łąka Wiesau
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Nysa
Gmina :	Otmuchów
Geographic location :	50 ° 23 '  N , 17 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '21 "  N , 17 ° 12' 33"  E
Height :	210-260 m npm
Residents :	361 (December 31, 2018)
Postal code :	48-385
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	ONY
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw Airport

Łąka (German Wiesau ) is a village in the urban and rural municipality of Otmuchów in the powiat Nyski in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland.

geography

Geographical location

The Waldhufendorf Łąka is located in the southwest of the historical region of Upper Silesia, right on the border with the Czech Republic . The place is about ten kilometers southeast of the municipality seat Otmuchów , about 17 kilometers southwest of the district town Nysa and about 76 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Łąka is located in the Przedgórze Sudeckie (Sudeten foothills) within the Przedgórze Paczkowskie (Patschkauer foothills) . A disused railway line of the former Neisser Kreisbahn runs west of the village . The place is on the Łuża , a right tributary of the Weidenauer Wasser (Polish Widna ).

Neighboring places

Neighboring places of Łąka are in the northwest Kałków ( Kalkau ), in the northeast Jodłów (Tannenberg) , in the south Jarnołtów ( Dürr Arnsdorf ) and in the southwest the city of Vidnava ( Weidenau ).

history

Church of St. Catherine

Village party

The place was first mentioned in 1291 as Pratum . The place was founded as a Waldhufensiedlung in the middle of the 13th century. In the work Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from the years 1295-1305, the place is mentioned again as Pratum . In 1377 it was mentioned as Wesa .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Wiesau and most of Silesia fell to Prussia . In 1780 Wiesau, previously part of Weidenau, became an independent parish.

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community of Wiesau belonged to the district of Neisse in the administrative district of Opole from 1816 . In 1845 there was a Catholic parish church, a Catholic school and 100 other houses in the village. In the same year 636 people lived in Wiesau, five of them Protestants. In 1855 594 people lived in Wiesau. In 1865 there were 33 farmers, 14 gardeners and 27 cottagers as well as two inns and a brewery in the village. In 1874 the district of Dürr Arnsdorf was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Dürr Arnsdorf, Schubertscrosse, Tannenberg and Wiesau and the manor district of Dürr Arnsdorf, Tannenberg and Wiesau. In 1885 Wiesau had 531 inhabitants.

In 1920 the memorial for the fallen of the First World War was built, which was removed after 1945. In 1933 451 and in 1939 656 people lived in Wiesau. Until the end of the war in 1945 the place belonged to the Neisse district .

As a result of the Second World War, Wiesau fell under Polish administration in 1945, like most of Silesia . It was subsequently renamed Łąka and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. The German population was largely expelled . In 1950 it was incorporated into the Opole Voivodeship. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Nyski . In 2007, 407 people lived in the village.

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic Church of St. Catherine (Polish Kościół Narodzenia NMP i św. Jerzego ) is an early Gothic church, which was built in the second half of the 13th century. In 1561 the building was expanded to include a hall on the south side. Around 1777 the church was extensively rebuilt. Here the west tower with a goblet-shaped roof and the sacristy in the baroque style were added. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1950
• Next door is the two-storey rectory, which was built in the 18th century in the classicist style. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1966.
• Reception building of the former Kalkau-Wiesau train station - built in 1911 and now a residential building
• Stone path chapels
• Stone crosses
• Wooden wayside cross

societies

• Football club LZS Łąka
• Volunteer Fire Brigade OSP Łąka
• Country women's association KGW Łąka

Web links

Commons : Łąka (Otmuchów)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Graport o stanie Gminy Otmuchów za 2018 rok , accessed on April 17, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Georg Knie : Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, towns, cities and other places of the royal family. Preuss. Province of Silesia. Breslau 1845, p. 741.
3. ^ H. Markgraf, Wilhelm Schulte: Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis (=  Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae . Volume XIV ). Breslau 1889 (Latin, dokumentyslaska.pl [accessed April 17, 2020]).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1017 ( preview in Google book search).
5. ^ Territorial district of Dürr Arnsdorf
6. ↑ AGoFF circle Neisse
7. ↑ Online project for memorials to commemorations Wiesau
8. ↑ Administrative history - Neisse district ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Characterystyka Gminy Otmuchów 2007 (Polish)
10. ^ Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , pp. 592–593.
11. ↑ ^{a b} Monument register of the Opole Voivodeship (Polish; PDF; 913 kB)