Gościce

Gościce Gostitz
	Gościce Gostitz
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Nysa
Gmina :	Paczków
Geographic location :	50 ° 26 '  N , 16 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '8 "  N , 16 ° 58' 59"  E
Height :	250-300 m npm
Residents :	470 (December 31, 2018)
Postal code :	48-370
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	ONY
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 382 Lisie Kąty - Stanowice
Next international airport :	Wroclaw Airport

Gościce ( German Gostitz , 1936-1945 Gostal ) is a village in the municipality of Paczków ( Patschkau ) in Poland . It is located in the powiat Nyski in the Opole Voivodeship ( Opole ).

geography

View from the Hohe Stein ( 700  m npm ) to Gościce

Geographical location

The Waldhufendorf in the Franconian settlement form Gościce is located in the southwest of the historical region of Upper Silesia on the northern edge of the Reichensteiner Mountains ( Góry Złote / Rychlebské hory ) on the border with the Czech Republic . The place is located about four kilometers south of the municipal seat Paczków , about 27 kilometers southwest of the district town Nysa and about 83 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Gościce lies in the Przedgórze Sudeckie (Sudeten foothills) within the Przedgórze Paczkowskie (Patschkauer foothills) . Droga wojewódzka 382 road runs northeast of the village . The Tarnawka ( Tarnau ), a right tributary of the Glatzer Neisse, runs through the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns are Unikowice ( Heinzendorf ) and Stary Paczków ( Alt Patschau ) in the northeast, Ujeździec ( Geseß ) in the east, Lisie Kąty ( Fuchswinkel ) and Dziewiętlice ( Heinersdorf ) in the southeast and Kamienica ( Kamitz ) in the northwest. Beyond the border with the Czech Republic are Horní Hoštice ( Ober Gostitz ) and Javorník ( Jauernig ).

history

The Tarnawka in Gościce

St. Nicholas Church

Settlers from Lower Franconia founded the later Gostitz on both sides of the Tarnow brook , which was initially called Tarnau, then Gos, according to German law. Mentioned in documents it was called "Gostzeczna" the first time around 1295 in Breslau Zehntregister Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis . At that time it consisted of 27 houses, a Scholtisei , a tavern and a mill.

From the beginning it belonged to the Neiss diocese , in which from 1290 the Wroclaw bishops exercised both clerical and secular power. In 1342 it came to the Crown of Bohemia as a fiefdom, together with the Principality of Neisse under Bishop Preczlaw von Pogarell , which the Habsburgs held from 1526 . The spelling “Gostitz” is documented for the year 1425. During the Thirty Years' War in 1641/42 Swedish troops devastated the place.

After the First Silesian War , when most of Silesia fell to Prussia in 1742 , the principality of Neisse also had to be divided. By drawing the boundary, Gostitz was also divided into two roughly equal parts. The northern part now came to Prussia, while the southern part of Ober-Gostitz remained with Bohemia and now belonged to Austrian Silesia .

After the secularization of the Principality of Neisse in 1810, the secular rule of the Breslau bishops over the Prussian part of Gostitz was ended, while Ober-Gostitz / Horní Hoštice continued to be under the Breslau bishop. The reorganization of Silesia 1813 Gostitz was until then to the district Breslau belonged to the Upper Silesian Region Oppeln incorporated. From 1816 it belonged to the newly established district of Neisse , with which it remained connected until 1945. In 1845 there was a Scholtisei , a Catholic parish church, a Catholic school and 118 other houses in the village. In the same year 650 people lived in Gostitz, one of them Protestant. In 1855 660 people lived in Gostitz. In 1865 the village of Gostitz consisted of a knightly Scholtisei with 42 farmers, 22 gardeners , 31 cottages , three water mills, a brick factory, a distillery and two restaurants. Together with the rural communities of Fuchswinkel , Heinzendorf , Kamitz and Kosel and the manor districts of the same name, Gostitz belonged to the Patschkau district from 1874 . In 1885 Gostitz had 638 inhabitants.

In 1933, 489 people lived in Gostitz. On August 18, 1936, the place was renamed Gostal in the course of a wave of renaming during the Nazi era . In 1939 Gostal had 488 inhabitants. In 1937 there were five gardener jobs , two mills, nine cottagers , 14 farms, a baker, a butcher, two inns, four general stores, a saddler, a blacksmith, two tailors, three shoemakers and two carpenters.

As a result of the Second World War , Gostal fell to Poland in 1945, was renamed Gościce and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. The German population was expelled . In 1950 it was incorporated into the Opole Voivodeship . 1999 saw the re-established Powiat Nyski . In 2006 470 people lived in the village.

Population development

1784: 475 inhabitants,
1845: 650 inhabitants,
1895: 522 inhabitants,
1936: 489 inhabitants,
2009: 466 inhabitants

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic Church of St. Nicholas (Polish Kościół św. Mikołaja ) was built between 1326 and 1370 as a fortified church. In the 18th century the building was rebuilt in the Baroque style . The building has been a listed building since 1950.
• Stone wayside cross

societies

• Football club LZS Gościce
• OPS Gościce Volunteer Fire Brigade

literature

• Bernhard W. Scholz: The spiritual principality Neisse . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20628-4 , p. 354 (with a map of the villages and towns of the Principality of Neisse 1650 on the trailer), digitized version (not complete)

Web links

Commons : Gościce  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Genealogical index of places

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Graport o stanie Gminy Paczków za 2018 rok , accessed on April 28, 2020
2. ↑ The villages of the Neisse district
3. ^ 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. 173.
4. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1007 ( preview in Google book search).
5. ^ Territorial district of Patschkau
6. ↑ AGoFF circle Neisse
7. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. neisse.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ^ Hubert Wolf: Gostitz, a village in Silesia
9. ↑ Monument register of the Opole Voivodeship (Polish; PDF; 913 kB)