Burgrabice

Burgrabice Borkendorf
	Burgrabice Borkendorf
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Nysa
Gmina :	Głuchołazy
Geographic location :	50 ° 21 '  N , 17 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '13 "  N , 17 ° 16' 24"  E
Height :	240-340 m npm
Residents :	690 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	48-340
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	ONY
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Burgrabice (German Borkendorf , 1945-1947 Borkowice ) is a village in the rural community Głuchołazy (goat neck) in Poland . It is located in the powiat Nyski ( Neisse district ) in the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

The street village Burgrabice is located in the southwest of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is about 13 kilometers northwest of the municipal seat Głuchołazy ( goat neck ), about 18 kilometers southwest of the district town of Nysa and about 72 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole . Approx. The border with the Czech Republic runs two kilometers southwest of the village .

Burgrabice lies in the Przedgórze Sudeckie ( Sudeten foothills ) within the Przedgórze Paczkowskie ( Patschkauer foothills ) on the river Moorwasser ( Mora ).

Neighboring places

Neighboring places of Burgrabice are in the northeast Biskupów ( Bischofswalde ), in the east Gierałcice ( Giersdorf ), in the southwest Sławniowice ( Groß Kunzendorf ) and in the northwest Kijów ( Kaindorf ).

history

Parish Church of St. Bartholomew

Mausoleum in the cemetery

Fire station on the Mora

The place was first mentioned in 1284 as Burgravici . In the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from the years 1295-1305, the place is called "Burccerabsdorph". In 1417 the place was mentioned as Burgrosindorff .

In 1728 the Neudorf colony was founded, which belonged to Borkendorf. After the First Silesian War in 1742, Langendorf and most of Silesia fell to Prussia . In 1783 the independent parish of Borkendorf was founded. Before that, Borkendorf was a branch of the parish in Groß Kunzendorf .

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community of Borken village from 1816 to the district Neisse in the administrative district of Opole . In 1843 a new school building was built in the village. In 1845 there was a Scholtisei , a Catholic parish church, a Catholic school, a limestone quarry, a brickworks, a farm, a mill and 211 other houses in the village. In the same year, 1,331 people lived in Borkendorf, five of them Protestants. In 1855 there were 1319 people living in the village. In 1865 there were 57 farmers, 14 gardeners and 82 cottagers as well as a brewery, a brick factory and a steam distillery in the village . In 1874 the district of Borkendorf was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Borkendorf and Groß Kunzendorf and the manor district of Borkendorf. The first head of office was the manor owner Volkmer in Borkendorf. In 1885 Borkendorf had 1,452 inhabitants. In 1894 the village received a connection to the Upper Silesian Railway on the Nowy Świetów – Sławniowice Nyskie line , a branch line of the Neisser Kreisbahn .

In 1933 there were 1,300 people in Borkendorf and 1,290 in 1939. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Neisse .

In 1945 Borkendorf came under Polish administration and was renamed Biskupów . From 1950 it belonged to the Opole Voivodeship and from 1999 to the re-established Powiat Nyski .

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic Church of St. Bartholomew (Polish Kościół św. Bartłomieja ) is a partly Romanesque and neo-Baroque church building. The foundation walls of the building date from the first half of the 14th century. The current nave dates from the 16th century and was expanded in the 18th century. Between 1913 and 1914 the bell tower was demolished and replaced by a rotunda with a tower in the neo-baroque style. The consecration of the new building took place in 1924 in the presence of Cardinal Adolf Bertram .
• The church is surrounded by the village cemetery , which was laid out in the 15th century. Numerous graves from German times have been preserved here, including a mausoleum from 1830.
• Rectory - built in the 18th century
• Vorwerk building of the former manor
• Ruins of a historical warehouse
• Fire station - built in 1900
• Monument to Joseph Krautwald

societies

• Volunteer fire brigade OSP Burgrabice
• Sports club KKS Sudety Burgrabice

Sons and daughters of the village

• Friedrich Hauptmann (1860–1923), German choir director and conductor
• Joseph Krautwald (1914–2003), German sculptor

Web links

Commons : Burgrabice  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on December 23, 2019
2. ↑ Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis
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. 50.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1027.
5. ^ Territorial district of Borkendorf
6. ↑ AGoFF circle Neisse
7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Neisse district (Polish Nysa). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ↑ ^{a b} Gmina Głuchołazy Monument Register (Polish)