Bischdorf (Radlau)

Bischdorf Biskupice
Help on coat of arms	Bischdorf Biskupice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Olesno
Gmina :	Radlau / Radłów
Geographic location :	50 ° 57 '  N , 18 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '55 "  N , 18 ° 28' 28"  E
Residents :	435 (June 1, 2007)
Postal code :	46-331
Telephone code :	(+48) 34
License plate :	OOL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice
Administration (as of 2015)
Schulze :	Stefan Rudolf
Address:	Biskupice 68 46-324 Biskupice

Bischdorf , in Polish Biskupice , is a village in the powiat Oleski of the Opole Voivodeship in Poland . As a Schulzenamt it belongs to the bilingual rural community Radlau / Radłów .

geography

The street village of Bischdorf is located in the northeast of the Opole Voivodeship , about 8 kilometers northeast of the district town of Olesno (Rosenberg OS) and about 45 km northwest of Częstochowa (Czestochowa) on the Silesian plateau , in the historical region of Upper Silesia .

history

Fallen memorial

Inside of the scrap wood church

The existence of a church in Bischdorf has been proven since the 14th century. In the 17th century the church village belonged to the Sternalitz parish , after which it was a branch of Kostellitz . In 1757 a separate parish in Bischdorf was finally founded, but due to disputes between the pastor and the population, the interdict was soon afterwards so that it was without a local pastor until 1896.

Bischdorf belonged to the Duchy of Opole which was ruled by the Silesian Piasts . After the death of Duke Johann II. In 1532 it came to the Crown of Bohemia as a hereditary principality , which the Habsburgs had held since 1526 . After the Silesian War in 1742, Bischdorf and most of Silesia fell to Prussia . In 1787, the then landlord, Christian Gottlieb Graf von Jordan, founded a Protestant parish in Bischdorf, which from 1816 included the district of Rosenberg OS . From 1874, Bischdorf formed the district of Bischdorf. The construction of a parsonage, a Protestant school and finally a confirmation school in 1872 made the town, in which around 120 Protestants lived in 1872, a small center of Protestantism in Catholic Upper Silesia. At that time the village belonged to the Prussian king, who also held the patronage of the church.

After the First World War, a referendum was held in Upper Silesia in 1921 on the continued state membership, which was accompanied by violent clashes. In Bischdorf, 260 votes were cast in favor of remaining with Germany, 246 votes in favor of annexation to Poland - Bischdorf remained in the Weimar Republic .

With the end of World War II , Bishops' village was part of Poland and renamed Biskupice . Most of the Protestant and some Catholic German residents were expelled unless they had fled beforehand , but a minority of German descent was able to survive in the area. In accordance with the Polish Minority Law of 2005, the municipality of Radlau , to which Bischdorf is part of the Schulzenamt, became officially bilingual in 2006 and introduced bilingual place names in 2007.

Population development

The population of Bischdorf according to the respective territorial status (including manor district):

year Residents 1844 520 1855 575 1861 595 1885 672

year Residents 1910 1,050 1925 1.010 1933 1,041 1939 1,856

Attractions

Parish Church of St. Hyacinth

• The Catholic parish church of St. Hyacinth (kościół św. Jacka) was a Protestant church until 1946. The baroque stone construction began on November 3rd, 1784 - the inauguration took place on November 3rd, 1787. The interior has baroque furnishings from the 18th century, consisting of an altar, pulpit and figures of Saints John Nepomuk and Nicholas.

Schrotholzkirche St. Hedwig

• The scrap wood church of St. Hedwig (kościół św. Jadwigi Śląskiej) was the old parish church of Bischdorf and is located in the local cemetery. It was built in 1718 by the Krakow carpenter Jan Mixa in place of a previous building from the 14th century. The front tower, which is crowned by a baroque spire, is followed by the nave with three window axes, on whose shingle-roofed roof rests a baroque ridge turret. The lower choir, closed on three sides, is divided by two window axes. The interior is decorated with a baroque high altar from 1734. The church is a stop on the cultural route of wooden sacral architecture (Szlak Drewnianego Budownictwa Sakralnego).
• Around the middle of the 18th century, the local estate was also built in baroque style and is surrounded by a park with a lime tree avenue.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Helene Voigt (1857–1924), writer
• Elard von Löwenstern (1886–1945), General

Web links

Commons : Bischdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the Radlau municipality, Wykaz Sołectw - Gmina Radłów , accessed on March 3, 2015
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Sights in Powiat Olesno ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at: powiatoleski.pl , accessed on September 10, 2008
3. ↑ Diocese of Opolska at: diecezja.opole.pl , accessed on September 10, 2008
4. ↑ Bischdorf district. at: territorial.de , accessed on September 24, 2008
5. ↑ ^{a b} Protestants in Biskupice on: lasowice.eu , ab. on September 10, 2008
6. ^ The referendum in Upper Silesia in 1921. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). on October 11, 2009
7. ↑ Sources of population figures :

   1844: [1] - 1855, 1861: [2] - 1910: [3] - 1885, 1925, 1933, 1939: Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. rosenberg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 

8. ^ Biskupice: St. Hedwig on: dziedzictwo.ekai.pl , down. on September 10, 2008