Biadacz (Lugnian)

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Biadacz (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Opole
Gmina : Lugnian
Geographic location : 50 ° 44 '  N , 17 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 44 '12 "  N , 17 ° 57' 36"  E
Residents : 699 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 46-024
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OPO
Economy and Transport
Street : Kupp - Jellowa
Next international airport : Katowice



Biadacz (1936–1945 Kreuzwalde ) is a village in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland and is located north of the city of Opole ( Opole ). The village belongs to the municipality of Lugnian ( Łubniany in Polish ).

geography

Geographical location

Biadacz is located in the historical region of Upper Silesia . The village is located about seven kilometers southwest of the municipality of Lugnian and about ten kilometers north of the voivodeship capital and district town of Opole .

The place is in the Nizina Śląska ( Silesian Plain ) within the Równina Opolska ( Opole Plain ). Biadacz is located on the Mała Panew .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Biadacz are Massow (Polish Masów ) in the north, Kollanowitz (Polish Kolanowice ) in the east, Luboschütz (Polish Luboszyce ) in the south and Czarnowanz (Polish Czarnowąsy ) in the east.

history

Kreuzwalde around 1936

Biadacz was first mentioned in 1279. The name comes from the Polish word biadac (dt. To wail ) and means something like "a barren and poor place". In 1356 the place is mentioned as Widecz .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Biadacz and most of Silesia fell to Prussia . In 1784 the village belonged to the monastery in Czarnowanz and at that time it had 104 inhabitants with a farm.

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Biadacz from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a farm and 40 other houses in the village. In the same year, 260 people lived in Biadacz, four of them Protestants. In 1874 the district of Sowade was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Biadacz, Luboschütz and Sowade and the manor district of Sowade. In 1861 there were 471 people in Biadacz, and in 1885 again 474.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 206 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 159 for Poland. Biadacz remained with the German Empire . In 1923 a public Polish minority school was founded in Biadacz, which was closed again in 1933. In 1933 there were 674 people in Biadacz. On May 19, 1936 the place name was changed to Kreuzwalde . In 1939 Kreuzwalde had 712 inhabitants.

In 1945, the previously German town of Kreuzwalde came under Polish administration and was renamed Biadacz again and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1946 the village had 740 inhabitants. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Opolski . On September 1, 1999, the only grammar school in Biadacz in the rural municipality of Lugnian began operations. In 2010 the high school was named Johannes-Paul-II.-Gymnasium .

Attractions

  • Three-story bell chapel on Szeroka Street
  • Memorial to the fallen of the two world wars in the cemetery

literature

  • Czech, K. (2014): Commune Lubniany in words and pictures - an attempt at a historical-cultural monograph. Lubniany (Wydawca Lubnianski Osrodek Kultury), pp. 14-23

Web links

Commons : Biadacz, Powiat opolski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on April 15, 2019
  2. ^ 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. 32.
  3. ^ Territorial district of Sowade / Hinterwasser
  4. ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Oppeln district (Polish Opole). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  5. See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )