Błotnica Strzelecka

Błotnica Strzelecka
	Błotnica Strzelecka
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Strzelce Opolskie
Gmina :	Strzelce Opolskie
Geographic location :	50 ° 29 '  N , 18 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 29 '20 "  N , 18 ° 24' 39"  E
Residents :	985
Postal code :	47-134
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	EAST
Economy and Transport
Rail route :	Pyskowice – Opole

Aerial view of Quellengrund, 1938

The lock

The station

Błotnica Strzelecka (German: Blottnitz ) is a village in Upper Silesia in the municipality of Strzelce Opolskie (Groß Strehlitz) in the Powiat Strzelecki in the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

Błotnica Strzelecka is located 19 kilometers northeast of the municipality and the district town of Strzelce Opolskie and 33 kilometers east of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Błotnica Strzelecka are in the west Warmątowice (Warmuntowitz), in the north Centawa , in the east Płużnica Wielka (Groß Pluschnitz) and in the south Kotulin (Groß Kottulin) and Balzarowitz ( Balcarzowice ).

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1240. The place name Blottnitz roughly means swamp place, swamp place.

In 1885 there were 592 inhabitants in Blottnitz. In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 106 residents voted for Germany and 179 for Poland - Blottnitz remained in the Weimar Republic . In the Blottnitz manor district, 52 people voted for Germany and 77 for Poland.

On March 27, 1925, there was a fire in Blottnitz that affected a few properties. In July 1925, prehistoric finds were discovered in a field near Blottnitz. In 1928 the Blottnitz manor district was dissolved and incorporated into the Blottnitz community. In the summer of 1932 further skeletons and urns were found. In 1933 there were 786 inhabitants in Blottnitz. On July 3, 1936, the place was renamed in Quellengrund . In 1939 there were 857 inhabitants in Quellengrund. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Groß Strehlitz .

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Błotnica Strzelecka and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1945, a labor camp for Germans was set up in Blottnitz, in which residents from the area who were intended for expulsion were interned. It operated until October 1945.

In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Strzelecki.

In August 2008, a hurricane ravaged the place and destroyed a large part of the place, including residential and auxiliary buildings, the infrastructure and the park.

Attractions

• Castle with park

coat of arms

Old seal of the community

Old seals and stamps of the place show a deer leaping over a stone to the right between two conifers.

societies

• German Friendship Circle

Web links

Commons : Błotnica Strzelecka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Presentation of the places in the Strzelce Opolskie municipality: PDF ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento from January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Strzelec Opolski: Obóz pracy w Błotnicy Strzeleckiej ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.