Chróścina (Dąbrowa)

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Chróścina
Chrosczinna
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Chróścina Chrosczinna (Poland)
Chróścina Chrosczinna
Chróścina
Chrosczinna
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Opole
Gmina : Dąbrowa
Geographic location : 50 ° 40 ′  N , 17 ° 48 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 56 "  N , 17 ° 48 ′ 1"  E
Height : 160 m npm
Residents : 1567 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 46-073
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OPO
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 435 Opole - Prądy
Rail route : Opole – Brzeg
Next international airport : Wroclaw



Chróścina (German Chrosczinna , 1934-1945 Reisern ) is a village in Upper Silesia . The village is located in the municipality of Dąbrowa ( Dambrau ) in the powiat Opolski (Opole district) in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

Chróścina is located in the west of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The village is located about five kilometers southeast of the municipal seat Dąbrowa and ten kilometers west of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole ( Opole ). Chrosczinna lies in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) within the Równina Niemodlińska (Falkenberg Plain) .

The Droga wojewódzka 435 road runs through the village in a west-east direction . The Chróścina Opolska station is located north of the town center on the Opole – Brzeg railway line . The Chróścinka flows through the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Chróścina are Wrzoski ( Wreske ) in the north, Mechnice ( Muchenitz ) in the east, Komprachcice ( Comprachtschütz ) and Polska Nowa Wieś ( Polish: Neudorf ) in the south, and Wawelno ( Bowallno ) in the west and Dąbrowa ( Dambrau ) in the north-west.

history

Windmills in Chrosczinna - 1930
Old bell tower
Entrance portal of the St. Peter and Paul Church

The village was first mentioned as Crostina in 1223 . In the following centuries the village is mentioned in other documents, for example in 1371 as Croschczina or in 1410 as Smeifsdorf . In 1532 the village is mentioned again as Krosstzyna . At that time 21 farmers lived in the village. In the middle of the 16th century there are 17 farms and an inn in the village. During the Thirty Years' War the village and the village church were devastated by Swedish soldiers.

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Chrosczinna and most of Silesia fell to Prussia . In 1765 a Catholic school was established in the village. In 1784 there were 127 people living in the village.

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Chrosczinna from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1819 the village received a new stone school building. In 1845 there was a farm, a Catholic church, a brewery, a distillery and 87 houses in the village. In the same year 576 people lived in Chrosczinna, 27 of them Protestants. In 1855 650 people lived in the village. In 1865 the village had 12 farmers, 10 half-farmers, 17 gardeners, 9 farmers, 22 residents and 32 residents. The two-class Catholic school was attended by 238 students in the same year. In 1874 the administrative district Chrosczinna was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Bowallno, Chrosczinna, Muchenitz and Wreske and the manor district Chrosczinna. In 1885 Chrosczinna had 787 inhabitants.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 351 eligible voters voted to remain in Germany and 265 to belong to Poland. In 1933 Chrosczinna had 1097 inhabitants. In the course of the "Germanization of foreign place names" under the National Socialists, the place was renamed Reisern on May 21, 1934 . In 1939, 1216 people lived in Reisern.

Until the end of the war in 1945, the place belonged to the district of Opole . Then the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Chróścina and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . Between 1945 and 1952 the village belonged to the Wrzoski municipality until it formed its own municipality between 1954 and 1975. Since 1975 Chrosczinna has belonged to the Dąbrowa municipality. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Opolski .

Worth seeing

  • The history of the Roman Catholic. Church of St. Peter and Paul (Polish Kościół św. Apostołów Piotra i Pawła ) dates back to the 15th century. The current appearance and the late baroque furnishings date from 1795. The lower part of the bell tower dates from the 15th and 16th centuries. Century. The spire was reconstructed in the 20th century.
  • Nepomuk statues from the 17th and 19th centuries
  • Old school building with half-timbering from 1862
  • Ruins of the old windmill from the 19th century

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Chróścina  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku ( XLSX file, Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on August 7, 2019
  2. First mention of Chrosczinna ( memento of the original from January 19, 2016 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chroscina.eu
  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. 78.
  4. a b c Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 85.
  5. ^ Territorial administrative district Chrosczinna / Reisern
  6. AGoFF district Opole
  7. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  8. 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).
  9. ^ History of the Dambrau community
  10. Sights in Chrosczinna ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2016 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chroscina.eu