Łowkowice (Kluczbork)

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Łowkowice
Lowkowitz
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Łowkowice Lowkowitz (Poland)
Łowkowice Lowkowitz
Łowkowice
Lowkowitz
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Kluczbork
Gmina : Kluczbork
Geographic location : 51 ° 2 '  N , 18 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '12 "  N , 18 ° 14' 40"  E
Residents : 555 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 46-200
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OKL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Wroclaw



Łowkowice ( German Lowkowitz , also Loffkowitz , 1936-1945 Bienendorf ) is a place of Gmina Kluczbork in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland . The village is known as the place where the Silesian bee researcher Johann Dzierzon worked .

geography

Łowkowice is located in the northwestern part of Upper Silesia in the Kreuzburger Land. Łowkowice is located around nine kilometers north of the Kluczbork municipality and around 58 kilometers northeast of the voivodeship capital Opole .

The Baryczka ( Bartsch Bach ) flows south of the village .

Neighboring towns of Łowkowice are Dobiercice ( Wilmsdorf ) in the north, Pszczonki ( Schonke ) in the north-east, Maciejów ( Matzdorf ) in the east, Kujakowice Dolne ( Nieder Kunzendorf ), Kujakowice Górne ( Ober Kunzendorf ) and Gotartów ( Gottersdorf ) in the west, Krzywizna ( Schönwald ) in the west ) and in the northwest Sarnów ( Sarnau ) and Chudoba ( Chudoba ).

history

Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary

The village of Lowkowitz was first mentioned in 1253 as Irschotin , Hengoczin and Vloscha . In 1283 the village was mentioned as Ditmarsdorf .

The name Lowkowitz or Loffkowitz is derived from the Polish term Łowca ( hunter ) and means something like the hunter's village .

The digging for iron ore in the village is documented for the year. Until the secularization , the village belonged to the St. Matthias monastery in Breslau. The village church was built in 1827.

In 1845 there was a Catholic church, an iron ore mine and another 111 houses in the village. In the same year, 939 people lived in Lowkowitz, 12 of them Protestants and 7 Jewish. In 1869 there were 1,306 Catholics, 272 Protestants and 8 Jews in Lowkowitz. In 1874 the district of Schönwald is founded, to which Lowkowitz belongs. In 1884, 1,116 people lived in 149 houses in Lowkowitz.

In 1933 there were 1218 people in Lowkowitz. On May 27, 1936, Lowkowitz was renamed Bienendorf . In 1939 there were 1164 people in Bienendorf. Until 1945 the village belonged to the district of Kreuzburg OS. The last mayor of the village was Alois Dzierzon.

As a result of the Second World War, Bienendorf fell under Polish administration in 1945, like most of Silesia . Subsequently, the place was renamed Łowkowice and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 it was incorporated into the Opole Voivodeship. In 1999 the place came to the newly founded Powiat Kluczborski ( Kreuzburg district ).

Attractions

  • The Roman Catholic Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Polish Kościół Nawiedzenia Najświętszej Maryi Panny ) was built in 1827.
  • Crossroads at the crossing ul. Ks. Rigola and ul. Ul. Brzozowa
  • Baroque chapel with a statue of St. Nepomuk
  • Tomb of Johann Dzierzon in the village cemetery

Personalities

Jan Dzierżon with his bee colonies in Lowkowitz

Web links

Commons : Łowkowice (Kluczbork)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on December 1, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 377.
  3. ^ Heinrich Adamy : The Silesian place names, their origin and meaning - A picture from prehistory , Breslau, Priebatsch, 1889, p. 11
  4. ^ Home district association Kreuzburg
  5. ↑ a b Filipa Sulimierskiego: Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom V, 1889, p. 762.
  6. ^ Territorial district of Schönwald
  7. ^ Administrative history - Kreis Kreuzburg OS ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ Bienendorf Chronicle