Bierdzan

Bierdzan Bierdzany
	Bierdzan Bierdzany
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Opole
Gmina :	Turawa
Geographic location :	50 ° 49 '  N , 18 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '0 "  N , 18 ° 9' 0"  E
Residents :	934 (March 31, 2013)
Postal code :	46-046
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPO
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 45 Wieluń - Racibórz
	Ext. 463 Bierdzan– Zawadzkie
	Ext. 494 Bierdzan– Częstochowa
Next international airport :	Katowice

Bierdzan ( Polish Bierdzany , 1936–1945 Burkardsdorf ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Bierdzany is located in the municipality of Turawa in the Opolski powiat in the Polish Opole Voivodeship . Bierdzan has been officially bilingual (Polish and German) since 2012.

geography

Geographical location

Bierdzan is located in the historical region of Upper Silesia in the Opole region . The place is ten kilometers northeast of the Turawa municipal seat and 23 kilometers northeast of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole .

The place is in the Nizina Śląska ( Silesian Plain ) within the Równina Opolska ( Opole Plain ). The place is located on Bierdzaner Wasser (Polish Bierdzańska Woda ). The state road Droga krajowa 45 and the voivodship roads Droga wojewódzka 463 and Droga wojewódzka 494 run through the village .

Districts

Districts of Bierdzany are Pociecha (dt. Birkenhof Vorwerk ) Bierdzanska colony (dt. Colony Bierdzany ) and Chocimierz .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Bierdzan are Laskowitz ( Laskowice ) in the north, Sausenberg ( Szumirad ) in the northeast, Ellguth Turawa ( Ligota Turawska ) in the southeast, Heinrichsfelde ( Grabie ) and Kobyllno ( Kobylno ) in the southwest and Podewils ( Kały ) in the northwest .

history

Schrotholzkirche to St. Hedwig of Silesia

Statue of Saint Hedwig of Silesia

Bierdzan was first mentioned in 1279. The mayor is called Burkado de Birdzan . In 1410 the place is mentioned as Birdzan . In the same year a wooden chapel was built in the village.

In 1711, the scrap wood church of St. Hedwig of Silesia was built and replaced the wooden structure from the 15th century. After the First Silesian War in 1742, Bierdzan and most of Silesia fell to Prussia .

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Bierdzany from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . On July 22nd, 1841 the parish of Bierdzan was founded. Before that the village belonged to the parish in Bodland . In 1845 there was a Catholic church, a Catholic school, an outbuilding, a distillery and 75 houses in the village. In the same year 648 people lived in Bierdzan, two of them Protestant and three Jewish. In 1874 the district of Bierdzan was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Bierdzan, Ellguth-Turawa, Kadlub-Turawa and Sackrau-Turawa and the manor districts of Bierdzian, Ellguth-Turawa, Kadlub-Turawa and Sackrau-Turawa and the Sackrau-Turawa colony. The first head of office was the Majorate Lord Count von Garnier in Turawa. In 1885 the place had 832 inhabitants.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 449 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 156 for Poland. Bierdzan remained with the German Empire . Around 1930 the district of Bierdzan was dissolved and assigned to the district of Turawa . In 1933 there were 1,179 inhabitants. On May 19, 1936, the place was renamed Burkardsdorf . In 1939 the place had 1,151 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Bierdzany and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to Powiat Opolski . On March 8, 2012, the place was also given the official German place name Bierdzan.

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic scrap wood church of St. Hedwig of Silesia (Polish Kościół św. Jadwigi ) was built in 1711. Inside there is a baroque altar from the 18th century and a wall painting with the portrait of death, which was rediscovered during renovation work.
• Memorial to the fallen at St. Hedwig's Church
• Nepomuk Chapel at Szkolna Street
• Statue of St. Hedwig of Silesia on Szkolna Street
• Village pond (Polish: Staw Bierdzany ) at ul. Stawowa
• Old fire station from 1934 on Szkolna Street

societies

• German Friendship Circle
• Volunteer fire brigade OSP Bierdzany
• Football club LKS Sokoły Bierdzany

Sons and daughters of the place

• Joachim Prinz (1902–1988), rabbi

Web links

Commons : Bierdzan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the municipality of Turawa (Polish) (accessed on May 2, 2018)
2. ↑ History of the place
3. ↑ ^{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. 35.
4. ↑ History of Bierdzan (Polish)
5. ↑ ^{a b} Territorial District Biedrzan
6. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Opole district (Polish Opole). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ↑ See Polish Ministry of Public Administration and Digitization  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( mac.gov.pl/ )  
9. ↑ St. Hedwig