Góra (Niemodlin)

Góra Guhrau
	Góra Guhrau
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Opolski
Gmina :	Niemodlin
Geographic location :	50 ° 40 ′  N , 17 ° 33 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 29 ″  N , 17 ° 33 ′ 19 ″  E
Height :	178-190 m npm
Residents :	152 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	49-100
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPO
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Góra ( German Guhrau , also Groß-Guhrau ) is a village in the Gmina Niemodlin , in the powiat Opolski , the Opole Voivodeship in southwestern Poland .

geography

Geographical location

Góra is located in the west of Upper Silesia . The place is about ten kilometers northwest of the municipal seat Niemodlin (Falkenberg) and about 35 kilometers west of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole . Góra lies in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) within the Równina Niemodlińska (Falkenberg Plain) .

Neighboring places

The village of Rogi (German: Rogau ) is located southwest of Góra . In the west is the place Rutki (Rautke) , in the north Gracze (Graase) and in the northeast Molestowice (Mullwitz) . To the east lies the village of Mała Góra (Gut Guhrau) belonging to Góra .

history

The village is first mentioned in a document in 1335. In 1447 the place is mentioned as Goraw .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Guhrau and most of Silesia fell to Prussia . In 1756 a Protestant school was established in the village. In 1783 the village had 34 gardeners and houses and 192 residents.

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community of Guhrau belonged to the district of Falkenberg OS in the administrative district of Opole from 1816 . In 1845 the village had a Protestant school and 55 houses. In the same year 282 people lived in Guhrau, 16 of them Catholic. In 1855 310 people lived in the village. In 1865 the village had a school yard, 31 gardeners and three cottagers. The school was attended by 50 students in the same year. In 1874 the administrative district of Schedlau was founded, which consisted of the rural communities of Groditz, Guhrau, Heidersdorf, Mullwitz and Schedlau and the estate districts of Groditz, Guhrau, Heidersdorf, Mullwitz and Schedlau. In 1885 Guhrau had 226 inhabitants.

In 1933 333 people lived in Guhrau. In 1939 the village had 346 inhabitants. Until the end of the war in 1945 the place belonged to the district of Falkenberg OS

At the beginning of February 1945 the place was taken by the Red Army . After that, the previously German place came under Polish administration, was renamed Góra and connected to Gmina Niemodlin. In June 1946 the remaining German population was expelled. Only two families could stay in town. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Opolski .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on January 27, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Heimatverein des Kreis Falkenberg O / S (Ed.): Heimatbuch des Kreis Falkenberg in Oberschlesien. Scheinfeld 1971, pp. 180-181.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1137.
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. 194.
5. ^ Territorial district of Schedlau
6. ↑ District of Falkenberg OS
7. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Falkenberg (Polish Niemodlin). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).