Ellguth (Zülz)

Ellguth Ligota Bialska
	Ellguth Ligota Bialska
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Prudnik
Gmina :	Zülz
Area :	4.38  km²
Geographic location :	50 ° 25 '  N , 17 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 24 '40 "  N , 17 ° 40' 45"  E
Height :	210 m npm
Residents :	357 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Postal code :	48-210
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPR
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

Ellguth (Polish: Ligota Bialska ) is a village in the municipality of Zülz ( Biała ) in the powiat Prudnicki (Neustadt OS district) in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

The street village of Ellguth is located in the south of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is located about two kilometers northeast of the Zülz municipality , about 13 kilometers northeast of the district town of Prudnik and about 34 kilometers south of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Ellguth lies in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) within the Kotlina Raciborska (Ratibor Basin) . The place is on the left bank of the Zülzer water (Polish. Biała ).

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Ellguth are Ottok ( Otoki ) in the north-west, Ernestinenberg ( Górka Prudnicka ) in the north, Radstein ( Radostynia ) in the north-east, Krobusch ( Krobusz ) in the east, the town of Zülz in the south and Waschelwitz ( Wasiłowice ) in the south-west .

history

Stanislaus Church

Fallen memorial

The place was first mentioned in 1383 as Elgoth . In 1447 a church and the parish are mentioned for the first time. Other traditional place names come from the year 1531 as Elgota and 1534 Lhotta .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Ellguth and most of Silesia came to Prussia .

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community of Ellguth belonged to the district of Neustadt OS in the administrative district of Opole from 1816 . In 1845 there was a Catholic parish church, a Catholic school, a mill, a forge and 61 other houses in the village. In the same year, 357 people lived in Ellguth, all of them Catholic. In 1855 515 people lived in Ellguth. In 1865 there were 11 farmers, 15 gardeners and 47 cottagers in the village . The Catholic school was attended by 122 students in the same year. In 1874 the district of Radstein was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Ellguth, Ernestinenberg, Mokrau and Radstein and the manor districts of Mokrau domain and Radstein domain. In 1885 Ellguth had 565 inhabitants.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 389 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 109 for Poland. Ellguth remained with the German Empire . In 1933 there were 614 inhabitants. In 1939 the place had 579 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Neustadt OS

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Ligota Bialska and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the powiat Prudnicki . On March 6, 2006 , German was introduced as the second official language in the community of Zülz , which Ellguth belongs to. In 2008, the place was also given the official German place name Ellguth .

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic Church of Stanislaus (Polish Kościół św. Stanisława Męczennika ) was built between 1908 and 1912. In 1912 the building was consecrated by Karl Augustin . A previous building had originally existed in the same place since the 17th century. The building is surrounded by the local cemetery.
• Memorial to the fallen of the First World War
• Stone path chapel with statue of the Virgin Mary
• Stone wayside cross

societies

• Football club LZS Ligota Bialska

Web links

Commons : Ligota Bialska  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Graport o stanie Gminy Biała za 2018 rok , accessed on May 11, 2020
2. ↑ Website of the municipality: [1]
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. 118.
4. ^ Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865, p. 1093
5. ^ Territorial district of Radstein
6. ↑ AGoFF district Neustadt OS
7. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
8. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. neustadt_os.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
9. ↑ History of Stanislaus Church (Polish)