Old Schalkowitz

Alt Schalkowitz ; Stare Siołkowice
	Alt Schalkowitz ; Stare Siołkowice
	Alt Schalkowitz ; Stare Siołkowice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Opole
Gmina :	Poppelau
Geographic location :	50 ° 48 ′ N , 17 ° 46 ′ E Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ N , 17 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E
Residents :	1943 (December 29, 2017)
Postal code :	46-083
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPO
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 457 Pisarzowice - Groß Döbern
Next international airport :	Wroclaw
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Alt Schalkowitz ( Polish Stare Siołkowice , 1936-1945 Alt Schalkendorf ) is a village in Poland . Alt Schalkowitz is located in the municipality of Poppelau in the Powiat Opolski in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Archangel Michael Church

The former watermill from Alt Schalkowitz, today in the open-air museum in Opole

Geographical location

Alt Schalkowitz is located in the west of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The village is located about two kilometers southwest of the Poppelau municipality and 20 kilometers northwest of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole ( Opole ).

The Oder runs southwest of the village . The Brynica flows north of the village . The Voivodeship Road Droga wojewódzka 457 runs through Alt Schalkowitz .

Neighboring places

North-west of Alt Schalkowitz is the municipality seat Poppelau (Polish: Popielów ). In the north lies the village of Neu Schalkowitz (Polish Nowe Siołkowice ) and in the southeast the village of Chrosczütz (Polish Chróścice ).

history

Alt Schalkowitz is mentioned for the first time in 1223 as Scacovici in a list of the Czarnowanz monastery . The village was also mentioned in 1387 as Sulkowicz . In 1532 the village was mentioned as Siodlkowitz .

In 1742 Alt Schalkowitz fell with most of Silesia to Prussia . At the end of the 18th century the village was given the suffix Alt , after the Neu Schalkowitz settlement was founded in the immediate vicinity .

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community of Old Schalkowitz belonged starting from 1816 to the district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1822 a fire destroyed large parts of the village, including the wooden church. In 1830 the Archangel Michael Church was rebuilt. In 1845 there was a Catholic parish church, a Catholic school, a royal forest ranger's office and 225 other houses in the village. In the same year 1722 people lived in Alt Schalkowitz, nine of them Protestants and five Jewish. In 1874 the district of Alt Schalkowitz was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Alt Schalkowitz, Hirschfelde and Neu Schalkowitz. The first head of office was Lieutenant von Schmid in Alt Schalkowitz.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 1,522 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 506 for Poland. In the Dobrau estate, 80 people voted for Germany and six for Poland. Old Schalkowitz remained with the German Empire . 1933 lived in the place 2762 inhabitants. On August 10, 1936, the place was renamed Alt Schalkendorf . On April 1, 1939, Alt Schalkendorf merged with Neu Schalkendorf to form the municipality of Schalkendorf. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .

In 1945 the previously German town came to Poland and was renamed Stare Siołkowice and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. The merger of the places was canceled. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1997, large parts of the village were flooded during the Oder flood of the century. In 1999 the place came to Powiat Opolski . The place has had a bilingual place-name sign since 2014 and is also called Alt Schalkowitz again.

Attractions

Archangel Michael Church - built in 1830
The town has two meal wooden windmills.

societies

German friendship group to which the music groups "Heimatmelodie" and the children's group "Wróble" also belong
The folklore women singing group "Siołkowiczanki"

Sons and daughters of the place

Kurt Bimler (1883–1951), art historian and sculptor
Rochus Misch (1917-2013), SS man
Alfred Könner (1921–2008), editor and writer
Engelbert Miś (* 1943), journalist

Web links

Commons : Alt Schalkowitz - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Inhabitants of Alt Schalkowitz
↑ ^a ^b History of the village of Alt Schalkowitz
↑ ^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. 583.
^ Territorial district of Alt Schalkowitz / Schalkendorf
↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Opole district (Polish Opole). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[1] Inhabitants of Alt Schalkowitz

[Geschichte-2] History of the village of Alt Schalkowitz

[Knie-3] 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. 583.

[Territorial-4] Territorial district of Alt Schalkowitz / Schalkendorf

[5] See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

[Vwg-6] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Opole district (Polish Opole). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).