Borki Wielkie

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Borki Wielkie
	Borki Wielkie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Oleski
Gmina :	Olesno
Geographic location :	50 ° 52 '  N , 18 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '54 "  N , 18 ° 33' 27"  E
Height :	230-240 m npm
Residents :	925 (December 31, 2015)
Postal code :	46-300
Telephone code :	(+48) 34
License plate :	OOL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice-Pyrzowice

Borki Wielkie ( German Groß Borek , 1936–1945 Brückenort ) is a village in Upper Silesia . It is located in the urban and rural community of Olesno (Rosenberg OS) in the powiat Oleski of the Opole Voivodeship (Opole) .

geography

Geographical location

Borki Wielkie is located in the northeastern part of Upper Silesia in the Rosenberger Land. The village of Borki Wielkie is located about eleven kilometers east of the district town of Olesno and about 58 kilometers northeast of the voivodeship capital Opole . To the southeast of the village lies the border with the Silesian Voivodeship .

The place is in the Wyżyna Woźnicko-Wieluńska (Woischnik-Wieluń highlands) within the Obniżenie Liswarty (Lisswarther valley) . Borki Wielkie is surrounded by extensive forest areas, including the Las Czarny forest . The Łomnica, a left tributary of the Liswarta, flows southeast .

Districts

The hamlets of Borki Wielkie are the hamlets of Sobisz (Sophienhof) , Kuźnica Borecka (Eisenhammer) , Ligęzów (Lerchenbusch) , Smolarki (Krügertal) and Flaki (Kummerhöhe) and the colony Kolonia Borki Wielkie (Groß Borek colony) .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Borki Wielkie are Borki Małe ( Klein Borek ) in the west and Kucoby ( Kutzoben ) in the north-east .

history

Schrotholzkirche St. Martin and St. Bartholomäus

The Franciscan Church

Borki Wielkie is one of the oldest places in the area, the place was first mentioned in 1193 as Borch . In 1250 the place is mentioned as Borky .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Groß Borek fell with most of Silesia to Prussia . The place was mentioned in 1783 in the book Entries describing Silesia as Groß Boreck , it belonged to a Mr. Gottlieb von Jordan and was in the Rosenberg district of the Principality of Opole . At that time it had 289 inhabitants, a manorial farm , a Catholic church, a school, three water mills, a blast furnace, two fresh fires, 18 farmers, four small farmers, 24 gardeners and two cottagers.

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community of Groß Borek belonged to the district of Rosenberg OS in the administrative district of Opole from 1816 . In 1845 there was a Catholic church, a Catholic school, a forestry, a farm and 83 houses in the village. In the same year 745 people lived in Groß Borek, 37 of them Protestant and 14 Jewish. In 1865, Groß Borek consisted of a dominion and a village. At that time the village had 18 farmers, 19 gardeners, four cottagers with fields and eight cottagers without fields, as well as a water mill, a blast furnace, a tree nursery, a starch factory, a school and a church. The Vorwerke Groß Borek, Eisenhammer and Sophienhof belonged to the Dominium. In 1874 the district of Groß Borek was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Bronietz, Groß Borek and Klein Borek and the manor district of Groß Borek. The first head of office was the Royal Senior Official Plöhn. In 1885 Groß Borek had 746 inhabitants.

From 1906 to 1907 the Franciscans built a monastery in the village. In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 172 eligible voters voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 329 for membership in Poland. At Gut Groß Borek 45 voted for Germany and 36 for Poland. Groß Borek stayed with the German Empire after the division of Upper Silesia . In 1936 the place was renamed to Brückenort as part of a wave of renaming during the Nazi era . On April 1, 1939, the communities Heidelsdorf and Wehrenfelde were incorporated into Brückenort. In 1939 there were 2,142 people in Brückenort. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Rosenberg OS

In 1945 the formerly German town came under Polish administration and was then attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed the Polish Borki Wielkie . In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship and in 1975 to the Czestochowa Voivodeship. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Oleski and again to the Opole Voivodeship.

Attractions

• The scrap wood church of St. Martin and St. Bartholomew (Polish Kościół cmentarny św. Marcina i Bartłomieja ) is a cemetery chapel and was built in 1697.
• The Roman Catholic Franciscan Church (Polish Kościół św. Franciszka z Asyżu ) was built between 1910 and 1911 in the neo-Gothic style.
• Franciscan monastery.

Web links

Commons : Borki Wielkie  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population Gmina Olesno (Polish)
2. ↑ Website of the community ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2017 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. 
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. 49.
4. ↑ Friedrich Albert Zimmermann: Additions to the Description of Silesia , Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
5. ↑ Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
6. ^ Territorial administrative district Groß Borek / Brückenort
7. ↑ AGoFF circle Rosenberg OS
8. ↑ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2017 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. 
9. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Rosenberg OS (Polish Olesno). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
10. ↑ Rejestr zabytków nieruchomych woj. opolskiego