Domaradz (Pokój)

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Domaradz
Dammratsch
Domaradz Dammratsch does not have a coat of arms
Domaradz Dammratsch (Poland)
Domaradz Dammratsch
Domaradz
Dammratsch
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Namysłów
Gmina : Pokój
Geographic location : 50 ° 57 '  N , 17 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '3 "  N , 17 ° 51' 49"  E
Height : 155 m npm
Residents : 923 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 46-034
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : ONA
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Wroclaw



Domaradz ( German Dammratsch , 1936–45: Dammfelde ) is a town in Upper Silesia . Domaradz is located in the municipality of Pokój in the Namysłowski powiat in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

Domaradz is located in the north-western part of Upper Silesia. Domaradz is located about three kilometers northwest of the Pokój municipal seat, about 18 kilometers southeast of the district town of Namysłów and 31 kilometers north of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Domaradz is located in the Stobrawski Landscape Protection Park. The Bogacica ( Bodländer Flössbach ), a left tributary of the Stober, flows north of the village .

Districts

The hamlets Jagienna ( dam meadow ), Kozuby ( Kosuben ), Paryż ( dam weir ), Świercowskie ( dam meadow ) and Żabiniec ( Sabinietz ) belong to it .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Domaradz are Fałkowice ( Falkowitz ) in the north and Domaradzka Kuźnia ( Dammratschhammer ) in the east .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1309 as Damarecz and was founded under German law . The place name is derived from the name of the founder, the village of Thomas .

In 1845 there was a Catholic school, a mill and another 170 houses in the village. In the same year 1416 people lived in Dammratsch, of which 21 were Protestants and 13 were Jewish. In 1874 the district of Dombrowka was founded, to which Dammratsch was incorporated.

In 1913 the volunteer fire brigade was founded in the village. In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 1,677 voters in Dammratsch voted to remain with Germany and 103 for Poland. Dammratsch remained with the German Empire . In 1933 there were 1963 people living in the village. On May 19, 1936 the place name was changed to Dammfelde . In 1939 Dammfelde had 1865 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .

In 1945 the previously German town of Dammfelde came under Polish administration and was renamed Domaradz and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to Powiat Namysłowski .

Attractions

  • Two-story brick bell chapel with a pointed roof in the center of the village
  • Brick chapel at the southern entrance to the village with an image of Mary
  • Wayside cross

societies

  • Volunteer fire brigade OSP Domaradz

Individual evidence

  1. CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on January 27, 2019
  2. Martin Richau, 700 years Dammratsch and Falkowitz 1309 - 2009: on the history of the villages of the parish of Falkowitz (Berlin 2009), pp. 20-22.
  3. ^ Heinrich Adamy : The Silesian place names, their origin and meaning - A picture from prehistory , Breslau, Priebatsch, 1889, p. 15
  4. ^ 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. 89.
  5. ^ Dombrowka Territorial District
  6. ^ History of the volunteer fire brigade in Dammratsch
  7. See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ Administrative history - Opole district ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )