Łosiów

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Łosiów
Lossen
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Łosiów Lossen (Poland)
Łosiów Lossen
Łosiów
Lossen
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Brzeg
Gmina : Lewin Brzeski
Geographic location : 50 ° 47 '  N , 17 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '0 "  N , 17 ° 34' 0"  E
Residents : 1510 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 49-340
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : IF
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 94 Zgorzelec - Korczowa
Ext. 462 Pakosławice - Żłobizna
Rail route : Opole – Brzeg
Next international airport : Wroclaw



Łosiów ( German Lossen ) is a village in the urban and rural community Lewin Brzeski in the Brzeski powiat in the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

Łosiów is located in the eastern part of Lower Silesia in the Brieger Land. The village of Łosiów is located about six kilometers northwest of the Lewin Brzeski municipality , about eleven kilometers southeast of the district town of Brzeg and about 31 kilometers northwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Łosiów is located in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) within the Równina Wrocławska (Wroclaw Plain) . The state road Droga krajowa 94 and the voivodship road Droga wojewódzka 462 run through the village . The Łosiów stop on the Opole – Brzeg railway line is located southwest of the town center .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Łosiów are in the northeast Zwanowice ( Schwanowitz ), in the northeast Różyna ( Rosenthal ), in the southeast Leśniczówka ( Waldvorwerk ), in the south Nowa Wieś Mała ( Klein Neudorf ), in the southwest Jasiona ( Jeschen ), in the west Janów ( Johnsdorf ) and in the northwest Strzelniki ( Jägerndorf ).

history

Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Lossen Castle

In the 13th century, a Johanniter Lozy monastery was first mentioned in what is now Łosiów. This monastery is being rebuilt and expanded several times and is still present in Łosiów with its church of St. John the Baptist (kościół św. Jana Chrzciciela). In 1380 the village was first mentioned as Lossow . A coming Lossen, which existed until the secularization in 1810, is given in a record from 1754/56.

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community of Lossen belonged to the district of Brieg in the administrative district of Breslau from 1816 . In 1845 there was a castle, a Protestant parish church, a Protestant school, a Catholic church, a sugar beet factory, a brick factory and another 185 houses in the village. In the same year, 1375 people lived in Lossen, 413 of them Catholic. Between January 30, 1874 and December 3, 1880, the district of Lossen was formed from the rural communities of Jägerndorf, Lossen and Rosenthal and the manor district of Lossen (rulership) in various stages; the administration was carried out by the head of the district in Lossen. The first head of office was the economic inspector Bone. In 1885 Lossen had 1,708 inhabitants.

In 1885, 1996 people lived in Lossen. In 1894 Lossen was part of the Löwen District Court , with its own Lossen post office and the station on the Brieg - Cosel - Kandrzin line of the Prussian State Railways.

In 1933 there were 1630 people in Lossen, and in 1939 there were 1608 people. Until 1945 the village belonged to the district of Brieg .

Today there is a kindergarten, a primary school, a middle school (gimnazjum), a rustic credit association, a zinc white factory and about 29 small and medium-sized businesses, especially in the service sector.

Population numbers

1,996 inhabitants (1885), 1,777 inhabitants (on December 1, 1910), 1,630 inhabitants (1933), 1,608 inhabitants (1939), 1,600 (2005)

Attractions

  • The Roman Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist (Polish Kościół św. Jana Chrzciciela ) was rebuilt in the Baroque style after a fire in 1703 by the Johannites . A first church building is mentioned in 1255. Between 1534 and 1590 the church was used by the Protestants in the meantime. The church building was expanded between 1728 and 1731. In 1935 the building was renovated. The baroque hall church has a cross-shaped floor plan. The two transepts each have a chapel closed on three sides. On the west side is the square-shaped bell tower, which was provided with a half-gable and an octagonal tower with a baroque dome. The walls in the interior are provided with pilaster strips. The nave is equipped with a barrel vault and late baroque ceiling paintings. These were redesigned in 1936. The main altar dates from the beginning of the 18th century.
  • In front of the church there is a statue of Nepomuk from 1709
  • House of the People (Kulturhaus)
  • Palace (Pałac) from the end of the 19th century with a park

Personalities

  • Heinz Schneider (1921–2003), German local politician and former mayor of the city of Geretsried in Upper Bavaria

Web links

Commons : Łosiów  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on January 27, 2019 (Polish)
  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. 382.
  3. ^ Territorial district of Lossen
  4. AGoFF District Brieg
  5. a b Administrative history - District of Brieg ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , pp. 595–596.