Borkowice (Lewin Brzeski)

Borkowice Borkwitz
	Borkowice Borkwitz
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Brzeg
Gmina :	Lewin Brzeski
Geographic location :	50 ° 45 '  N , 17 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 44 '35 "  N , 17 ° 42' 46"  E
Height :	150-160 m npm
Residents :	504 (Dec. 31, 2012)
Postal code :	49-345
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	IF
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK94 Zgorzelec - Korczowa
Next international airport :	Wroclaw Airport

Borkowice (German: Borkwitz ) is a village in the municipality Lewin Brzeski in brzesko county of Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

Borkowice is located in the west of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is eight kilometers east of the municipality Lewin Brzeski ( Leuven ), 23 kilometers southeast of the district town Brzeg (Brieg) and 18 kilometers northwest of the voivodeship capital Opole . Borkowice is located in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) on the edge of the Dolina Nysy Kłodzkiej (Glatzer Neisse Valley) to the Równina Niemodlińska (Falkenberg plain) . The state road Droga krajowa 94 runs through the village .

Districts

The districts of Borkowice are Niwy ( Niewe ) and Błażejowice ( Heidehaus ).

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns are in the northwest Skorogoszcz ( Schurgast ) and Chróścina ( Weißdorf ), in the east Skarbiszów ( Karbischau ) and in the southwest Przecza ( Arnsdorf ).

history

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Borkwitz and most of Silesia fell to Prussia .

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community of Borkwitz belonged from 1816 to the district of Falkenberg OS in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a farm, customs house, brewery, distillery and 21 houses in the village. In the same year 168 people lived in Borkwitz, 39 of them Protestants. In 1865 there were 12 gardeners, 11 cottagers and 13 colonists. In 1874 the district of Niewe was founded, which consisted of the rural communities of Borkwitz, Deutsch Jamke, Niewe and Sorge and the manor districts of Deutsch Jamke, Niewe and Sorge. In 1880 the district of Niew was dissolved and the rural communities were assigned to the district of Schurgast Castle . In 1885 Borkwitz had 311 inhabitants.

In 1933 Borkwitz had 513 inhabitants. On July 28, 1936, the place name was changed to Borkenhain OS . In 1939 the place had 540 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Falkenberg OS

On January 23, 1945, the village was shelled by Russian artillery and some houses were destroyed. On February 4, 1945, the Red Army entered the village. After that, the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Borkowice and assigned to the Wroclaw Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the powiat Brzeski .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ - Population Gmina Lewin Brzeski , December 31, 2012, accessed on August 26, 2019
2. ^ 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. 51.
3. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1161.
4. ^ Territorial district of Niewe / Schurgast Castle
5. ↑ AGoFF county Falkenberg OS
6. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Falkenberg (Polish Niemodlin). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ↑ Heimatverein des Kreis Falkenberg O / S: Heimatbuch des Kreis Falkenberg in Oberschlesien. Scheinfeld, 1971. pp. 133-134