Biestrzynnik

Biestrzynnik Ringwalde
	Biestrzynnik Ringwalde
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Opole
Gmina :	Ozimek
Geographic location :	50 ° 44 '  N , 18 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 44 '14 "  N , 18 ° 12' 46"  E
Residents :	622 (Oct 31, 2018)
Postal code :	46-043
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPO
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

A forest pond on the edge of Biestrzynnik

Biestrzynnik ( German Ringwalde , until 1932 Biestrzinnek ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Biestrzynnik is located in the urban-and-rural municipality Ozimek (Malapane) in the powiat Opolski (Opole district) in the Polish Voivodeship of Opole .

geography

Geographical location

Biestrzynnik is located seven kilometers north of the municipality of Ozimek ( Malapane ) and 21 kilometers east of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole ( Opole ). To the west of Biestrzynnik is Lake Turawa . The Libawa , a right tributary of the Malapane, flows north of the village . She drove a mill.

Districts

The northeastern hamlet of Poliwoda belongs to Biestrzynnik .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Biestrzynnik are Dylaki ( Dylocken ) in the west, Kadlub-Turawa (Polish Kadłub Turawski ) and Sakrau-Turawa (Polish Zakrzów Turawski ) in the north, Kneja (Polish Knieja ) in the east and Jedlice ( Jedlitze ) and Antoniów in the south ( Antonia ).

history

The place was first mentioned in 1679 and had 12 inhabitants at that time.

In 1725 eight farmers lived in the village. In 1742 Biestrzinnek and most of Silesia fell to Prussia . In 1783 there were 11 farmers, 18 metalworkers and 11 tenants and a total of 245 inhabitants.

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Biestrzinnek from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1823 the Catholic school was opened. In 1830 the Counts of Garnier built an ironworks in Poliwoda. In 1845 there was a Catholic school, an ironworks, a royal sub-forestry and 76 other houses in the village. In the same year, 675 people lived in Biestrzinnek, four of them Protestants. In 1865 the ironworks in town was closed. In the same year, the place had eleven gardeners, 48 ​​farmhands and 41 local farmers. At that time the Catholic school had 182 students from Biestrzinnik and Poliwoda.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 159 eligible voters voted to remain in Germany and 125 to belong to Poland. Biestrzinnik remained with the German Empire . On January 15, 1932, the place was renamed Ringwalde . In 1933 there were 538 inhabitants. In the same year a volunteer fire brigade was founded. In 1939 Ringwalde had 581 inhabitants. From 1938 to 1941 a new church was built in the neighboring town of Thielsdorf , of which Ringwalde was henceforth a member. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed Biestrzynnik . In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship and since 1999 it has belonged to the re-established Powiat Opolski . In 2005 the place had about 730 inhabitants, in 2011 again 685.

Sights and monuments

• Castle from the 20th century
• Path chapel with bell tower
• Fallen memorial

societies

• German Friendship Circle
• Voluntary fire brigade OSP Biestrzynnik

Sons and daughters of the place

• Franz Gruß (1931–2006), German sculptor

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population Gmina Ozimek (Polish), as of October 1, 2018, accessed on April 3, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b} History of the place
3. ^ 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. 36.
4. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
5. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
6. ^ Territorial district of Hitler's lake
7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Opole district in Upper Silesia. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on April 3, 2019
9. ^ Directory of the DFK on the VdG website ( Memento of the original dated November 9, 2012 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.