Bieńkowice (Krzyżanowice)

Bieńkowice Benkowitz
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Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
Powiat :	Raciborski (Ratibor)
Gmina :	Krzyżanowice (Crossing Place)
Geographic location :	50 ° 2 '  N , 18 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 1 '30 "  N , 18 ° 12' 35"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 032
License plate :	SRC
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice-Pyrzowice

Bieńkowice (German Benkowitz , Czech Benkovice ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Administratively it is located in the municipality of Krzyżanowice (Kreuzort) in the powiat Raciborski (district of Ratibor) in the Silesian Voivodeship .

geography

All Saints Church

Townscape

Townscape with wayside chapel

Rectory

Bieńkowice is located six kilometers northwest of the township of Krzyżanowice (cross town), six kilometers south of the district town Racibórz (Ratibor) and 61 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Katowice .

The place is located near the border with the Czech Republic on the left bank of the Zinna . The Oder runs east .

history

The place was created in the 13th century at the latest. On April 4, 1283, he was first mentioned in a document as "Benchoviche" in connection with a Count Jenscho. 1295–1305 the place was mentioned in a document as "Bencowitz" in Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis ( Tithe Register of the Diocese of Breslau) . On June 1, 1335, Bishop Nauker assigned the place to the Dominican Sisters of the Holy Spirit Monastery in Ratibor.

According to the report of the episcopal visitation from Wroclaw from 1687, the local church preached in the Polish language ( concio Polonica ).

The place was mentioned in 1784 in the book Beytrage for the description of Silesia as Beinkowi (t) z and Benkowi (t) z , belonged to the nunnery of Ratibor and was in the principality of Ratibor. At that time he had 533 inhabitants, a Vorwerk , a church, a school, 48 peasants, 34 gardeners and 46 cottagers. A large part of the population lived from working as a linen weaver. With the secularization in Prussia in 1810, the Dominicans lost Benkowitz as their property and the monastery was dissolved. In 1865 Binkowitz and Bienkowitz consisted of a dominion and a community. At that time the place had 40 farms, six gardeners and 96 cottages, as well as two water mills, a brewery, a Catholic church built in 1749 and a school with two teachers and 230 students.

At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 , Czechoslovakia claimed the area, as did Poland.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 581 local voters voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 598 for membership in Poland. After the division of Upper Silesia, Benkowitz remained with the German Empire . In 1936 the place was renamed Berendorf in the course of a wave of renaming of the place during the Nazi era . Until 1945 the place was in the district of Ratibor .

In 1945 the until then German place came under Polish administration and was then attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed the Polish Bieńkowice on November 12, 1946 . In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship. In 1975 the place came to the Katowice Voivodeship. In 1999 the place came to the re-established powiat Raciborski and the Silesian Voivodeship.

Alfred Zaręba classified the local dialect of the Polish-Silesian dialect as the dialect of the narrow Silesian-Lachian border area on the left bank of the Oder and the Zinna, but many linguists (besides the dialect in Tworków ) even count it as the Lachish language , although the village never belongs to the Moravian-speaking diocese of Olomouc belonged to. Many villagers have Moravian surnames to this day, which indicates migration from the villages in the west (see also Hultschiner Ländchen ).

Buildings and monuments

• The Roman Catholic Church of All Saints, built from 1719 to 1730 in the baroque style.
• The rectory from 1801
• The Johanneskapelle, a path chapel
• Wayside crosses
• Cholera column
• Mud house from 1855
• Sister house of the Elisabethinen
• Wrought

Customs

The custom of Easter riding is widespread in Bieńkowice .

societies

There is a local DFK group of the German minority in the village.

Web links

Commons : Bieńkowice  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Codex diplomaticus Silesiae, Volume 14 , 1889
2. ^ Idzi Panic: Jak my ongiś godali. Język mieszkańców Górnego Śląska od średniowiecze do połowy XIX wieku [The language of the inhabitants of Upper Silesia in the Middle Ages and in modern times] . Avalon, Cieszyn-Kraków 2015, ISBN 978-83-7730-168-5 , p. 200 (Polish).
3. ↑ Friedrich Albert Zimmermann: Additions to the Description of Silesia, Volume 3 , Brieg 1784
4. ↑ Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
5. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia in 1921: Literature , table in digital form
6. ↑ Rozporządzenie Ministrów: Administracji Publicznej i Ziem Odzyskanych z dnia 12 listopada 1946 r. o przywróceniu i ustaleniu urzędowych nazw miejscowości (MP z 1946 r. no 142, poz. 262)
7. ↑ Mariusz Kowalski: Morawianie (Morawcy) w Polsce . In: Studia z Geografii Politycznej i Historycznej . No. 5 , 2016, p. 127 (Polish, online [PDF]).
8. ↑ Zabytki powiatu Raciborskiego
9. ↑ Upper Silesian columns and statues: Cholera column near Benkowitz
10. ↑ Nasz Racibórz: Bieńkowicki obchod pól
11. ↑ Upper Silesian Voice, No. 8 (No. 255), April 20, 2012