Łąka Prudnicka

Łąka Prudnicka Graflich Wiese
	Łąka Prudnicka Graflich Wiese
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Prudnik
Gmina :	Prudnik
Area :	2.99  km²
Geographic location :	50 ° 19 '  N , 17 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 18 '40 "  N , 17 ° 31' 38"  E
Height :	265-290 m npm
Residents :	1208 (2012)
Postal code :	48-200
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPR
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 40 Głuchołazy - Ujest
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Łąka Prudnicka ( German  Gräflich Wiese , until about 1900 Wiese gräflich ) is a place in Gmina Prudnik in the Powiat Prudnicki in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

The forest hoof village Łąka Prudnicka is located in the south of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is about one kilometer southwest of the municipality and the district town of Prudnik and about 53 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole . Approx. The border to the Czech Republic is five kilometers south of the town .

Łąka Prudnicka lies in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) within the Płaskowyż Głubczycki (Leobschützer Loesshügelland) . The place extends on both sides of the Złoty Potok ( Goldbach ). The state road Droga krajowa 40 runs through the village . The Zuckmanteler Bergland ( Góry Opawskie ) extends southwest of the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring Łąka Prudnicka are in the northeast of the municipality Prudnik ( Neustadt OS ), in the south Chocim ( Kotzem ) and in the southwest Moszczanka ( Langenbrück ).

history

Wiese Castle in the 18th century

Ruin of the castle

Fallen memorial

Wiese was laid out as a forest hoof village in the second half of the 13th century and settled with German colonists. The place was first mentioned in 1481.

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Gräflich Wiese and most of Silesia came to Prussia .

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community of Wiese belonged to the district of Neustadt OS in the administrative district of Opole from 1816 onwards . In 1845 there was a castle, a Vorwerk, two Erbscholtiseien, a brewery, a distillery, a Protestant school, a Catholic school and a further 244 houses in the village. In the same year, 1670 people lived in Wiese, including 310 Protestants and four Jewish. In 1855, 1,707 people lived as counts in Wiese. In 1865 there were 54 farmers, 21 gardeners and 12 cottagers as well as a brewery, a distillery, two schools, two water mills and five bars. The Catholic residents were parish in Langenbrück, the Protestant residents in Neustadt. The Catholic school was attended by 240 students in 1865. The Protestant school had 104 students in the same year. In 1874, the administrative district of Wiese was founded, which consisted of the rural communities of Wiese and the manor district of Wiese. The first head of office was the manor owner and captain Herrmann von Choltitz. In 1885 Wiese counted 2025 inhabitants. At the end of the 19th century, the place name was changed to Graeflich Wiese . The main branch of industry at that time was damask weaving .

In 1903 a flood of the Goldbach destroyed large parts of the village. In 1933 there were 2,226 people in Graeflich Wiese and 2,105 in 1939. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Neustadt OS

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Łąka Prudnicka and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the powiat Prudnicki .

Attractions

• The Graeflich Wiese Castle (also Mettich Castle , Polish Pałac Mettichów ) is a ruinous castle complex. The first castle was built in the 15th century under the Falkenberg Piasts. From the 16th century to 1825 it belonged to the von Mettich family . The core of today's building dates from the 16th century and was expanded until 1593. Between 1874 and 1883 the castle was rebuilt and expanded in the neo-Gothic style. The two-storey four-wing castle has an irregular floor plan. The castle tower located on the southwest corner has a square floor plan and neo-Gothic ornaments. The main facade has a neo-Gothic portal from the 19th century. Originally the castle had a castle chapel, which was built in 1646 and demolished in 1840. The castle has been a listed building since 1956.
• The castle park is directly adjacent . This is overgrown today.
• The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Czestochowa (Polish: Kościół Matki Boskiej Częstochowskiej ) was built between 1960 and 1964.
• Nepomuk statue - erected in 1712
• Memorial to the fallen of the First World War

societies

• Football club LZS Łąka Prudnicka

Personalities

• Dietrich von Choltitz (1894–1966), German general
• Hermann von Choltitz (1868–1947), German district administrator

Web links

Commons : Łąka Prudnicka  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Places in Gmina Prudnik - History and Dates (Polish)
2. ^ Walter Kuhn : Settlement history of Upper Silesia. Oberschlesischer Heimatverlag, Würzburg. 1954, p. 66.
3. ^ Johann Georg Knie : Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, spots, cities and other places of the royal family. Preuss. Province of Silesia. Breslau 1845, p. 742.
4. ^ Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865, p. 1054
5. ^ Territorial administrative district Wiese gräflich / Gräflich Wiese
6. ↑ AGoFF district Neustadt OS
7. ↑ Flood 1903 - Hist. photos
8. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. neustadt_os.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
9. ^ Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , p. 593.
10. ^ List of monuments in the Opole Voivodeship