Boguschuetz
| Boguschuetz Boguszyce |
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Opole | ||
| Powiat : | Opole | ||
| Gmina : | Proskau | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 36 ' N , 17 ° 56' E | ||
| Residents : | 539 (March 31, 2011) | ||
| Postal code : | 46-061 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 77 | ||
| License plate : | OPO | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | DK45 Opole - Krapkowice | ||
| Next international airport : | Katowice | ||
Boguschütz (Polish Boguszyce , 1936–1945 Gottesdorf ) is a village in Upper Silesia . The village is located in the municipality of Proskau ( Prószków ) in the powiat Opolski (Opole district) in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .
geography
Geographical location
Boguschütz is located six kilometers northeast of the township seat Proskau and eight kilometers south of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole ( Opole ).
The Oder flows east of the village . The state road Droga krajowa 45 runs through the village .
Neighboring places
Neighboring towns of Boguschütz are Zlattnik ( Złotniki ) in the west, Chrzumczütz ( Chrząszczyce ) in the northwest , Chrzowitz ( Chrzowice ) in the north , Zlönitz ( Źlinice ) in the south and the town of Proskau ( Prószków ) in the south-west .
history
The place was first mentioned in 1260 as Bogusici. Another documentary mention as Bogussicz followed in 1295. In 1772 a Catholic school was built. In 1784 Boguschütz, which belonged to the royal rule of Proskau, had 12 farmers, 16 gardeners, a few cottagers, a farm, a school and a total of 170 residents. In 1818 Boguschütz had 12 farmers, 16 gardeners, 5 cottagers, a farm and a Catholic school. In 1860 a new school building was built to replace the old one. In 1865 the place had 17 farmers, 19 gardeners, one cottage owner and 12 residents. Furthermore, a Kretschmer (innkeeper), a blacksmith, a miller, a grain dealer, a timber dealer and a barley dealer were resident in the village. The Catholic Church was built from 1868 to 1872. In 1885 there were 518 inhabitants.
In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 149 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 178 for membership in Poland. Boguschütz nevertheless remained with the German Empire . On May 19, 1936, the place was renamed Gottesdorf . On April 1, 1939, Gottesdorf was incorporated into Glockenau .
During the Second World War , the village of Gottesdorf, located directly to the west of the contested Oder, was taken by the advancing Red Army towards the end of January 1945 . Numerous civilians were murdered in the process. In the days from January 28 to January 30, 1945, around 200 residents of Gottesdorf died, as well as 100 to 150 other civilians who came from the city of Opole and the surrounding areas and who had sought refuge in Gottesdorf. Pastor Franz Walloschek was also one of the victims. The Polish Institute for National Remembrance (IPN) dealt with the events of 1945 in 2004/05 and interviewed 98 contemporary witnesses. In its 2005 yearbook, the IPN u. a. In addition to the shooting of more than 250 residents of Gottesdorf and Glockenau, the murder of Polish and Ukrainian slave laborers who were in these two places at the time.
Until 1945 the place belonged to the district of Opole . Then the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Boguszyce and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Opolski . On July 11, 2006, German was introduced as the second official language in the community of Proskau, which Boguschütz belongs to. On April 30, 2010, the place was also given the official German place name Boguschütz . At the end of July 2012, bilingual place-name signs were set up in the community of Proskau.
Sights and monuments
- Catholic Trinity Church from the years 1868 to 1872. Built for the residents of Boguschütz and Zlönitz.
- Path chapel with bell tower from 1737
- Wooden wayside cross from 1893
- Fallen memorial for the fallen of the First World War with the inscriptions: “As victims of the world war they suffered death for their fatherland from Boguschütz” , followed by a list of names - “And God will wipe away all tears from their eyes - Death will not be anymore Mourning nor lament nor pain ”- Apoc. 24.4.
- Memorial stone for the fallen in the villages of Boguschütz and Zlönitz in World War II
- Memorial stone for the murdered civilians from January 1945. It contains several names and the inscription “Eternal memory of civilians from Gottesdorf, Glockenau and Oderfelde. Murdered by Russian soldiers. January 1945 ”.
- The oxbow lake of the Oder. Various plant species can grow there undisturbed and it forms a retreat for numerous bird species.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on January 8, 2019
- ↑ Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae: Part 7 - Regesta on Silesian history. Second part. Until 1280
- ^ Johann Ernst Tramp: Additions to the Description of Silesia, Volume 3 , Brieg 1783
- ^ Geographical-statistical handbook on Silesia and the County of Glatz, Volume 2 ; Breslau and Jauer 1818
- ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
- ↑ a b Internet site of the community ( Memento of the original from February 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. , accessed June 2012
- ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Opole (Polish: Opole). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Tomasz Kamusella: Ethnic Cleansing in Upper Silesia, 1944-1951. In: Béla Várdy, T. Hunt Tooley, Ágnes Huszár Várdy (eds.): Ethnic cleansing in twentieth-century Europe. Social Science Monographs, Boulder, Colorado 2003, ISBN 0-88033-995-0 , pp. 293-310, here: p. 296 (English).
- ^ Institute for National Remembrance: Yearbook 2005 (Polish).
- ↑ Gazeta Wyborcza: Rzeź w każdym domu. Ci, co przeżyli horror, nadal nie chcą o tym mówić
- ↑ Boguschütz website ( 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.
Boguschütz (Boguszyce) | Chrzowitz (Chrzowice) | Chrzumczütz (Chrząszczyce) | Ellguth Proskau (Ligota Prószkowska) | Follwark (Folwark) | Gorek (Górki) | Groß Schimnitz (Zimnice Wielkie) | Jaschkowitz (Jaśkowice) | Klein Schimnitz (Zimnice Małe) | Neuhammer (Nowa Kuźnia) | Proskau (Prószków) | Przyschetz (Przysiecz) | Zlattnik (Złotniki) | Zlönitz (Źlinice)
Districts of Proskau: Wilhelmsberg ( Wybłyszczów )