Chechło (Rudziniec)

Chechło Chechlau
Help on coat of arms	Chechło Chechlau
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
Powiat :	Gliwicki (Gleiwitz)
Gmina :	Rudziniec (Rudzinitz)
Geographic location :	50 ° 25 '  N , 18 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 24 '32 "  N , 18 ° 24' 26"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 032
License plate :	SGL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice-Pyrzowice

Chechło (German Chechlau ) is a village in Upper Silesia . It is located in the municipality of Rudziniec (Rudzinitz) in the powiat Gliwicki (district of Gliwice) in the Silesian Voivodeship .

history

The place was created in the 13th century at the latest. 1295–1305 the place was mentioned in a document as "Chechel" in Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis ( Tithe Register of the Diocese of Wroclaw) .

The place was mentioned as Chechlow in 1783 in the book Entries describing Silesia , it belonged to a Mr. Johann Gustav von Strachwitz and was in the Tost district of the Principality of Opole . At that time he had four farms (three of them named Dziedziekau, Tomaskau and Stodalkau), two mills, a Catholic church and school, 28 farmers and 27 gardeners . In 1865 Chechlau consisted of an estate and a village. At that time the place had 27 farms, 24 gardeners and 33 cottages, as well as a wooden Catholic church called St. Valentin , a school, a parish hall and a mill with an American and a German aisle in the hamlet of Gacz. At that time Chechlau also included the towns of Oberhof, Niederhof, the sheep farm, Dziedzinka, Stodolka, Buczek, Gacz and Tomaskau.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 161 people eligible to vote voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 395 for membership in Poland. After the division of Upper Silesia, Chechlau remained with the German Empire . In 1936 the place was renamed in Strahlheim in the wake of a wave of renaming during the Nazi era . Until 1945 the place was in the district of Tost-Gleiwitz .

In 1945 the until then German place came under Polish administration and was then attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed the Polish Chechło . In 1949 the scrap wood church burned down. 1950 the place came to the Voivodeship Katowice. In 1952 the new church was consecrated. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Gliwicki and the Silesian Voivodeship.

Buildings

• Modern church from 1952
• Wayside crosses

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedrich Albert Zimmermann: Additions to the Description of Silesia , Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
2. ↑ Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
3. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia in 1921: Literature , table in digital form