Golczowice

Golczowice Weissdorf
	Golczowice Weissdorf
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Brzeg
Gmina :	Lewin Brzeski
Geographic location :	50 ° 47 '  N , 17 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '39 "  N , 17 ° 43' 57"  E
Height :	145 m npm
Residents :	234 (December 31, 2012)
Postal code :	49-345
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	IF
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw Airport

Golczowice (German Golschwitz , 1936-1945 Eichenried ) is a village in the municipality Lewin Brzeski in the powiat Brzeski of the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

The street village Golczowice is located in the west of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is located eleven kilometers northeast of Lewin Brzeski ( Leuven ), 26 kilometers southeast of the district town Brzeg (Brieg) and 21 kilometers northwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Golczowice is located in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) on the edge of the Pradolina Wrocławska (Wroclaw Glacial Valley ) to the Równina Niemodlińska (Falkenberg Plain) . The village is on the left bank of the Oder .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Golczowice are Mikolin ( Nikoline ) in the west and Chróścina ( Weißdorf ) in the southwest .

history

Sacred Heart Church

The place was first mentioned in 1223 as Golchenicj . In 1480 it was mentioned as Golczow and in 1532 as Goltzow .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Golschwitz and most of Silesia fell to Prussia .

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community Golschwitz belonged to the district of Falkenberg OS in the administrative district of Opole from 1816 . In 1845 there was a farm in the village, an evangelical school, a forge, a ferry system and 52 houses. In the same year there were 426 people in Golschwitz, 102 of them Protestants. In 1855 475 people lived in the village. In 1865 the place had nine share farmers, 17 gardeners and 23 cottagers. In 1874 the administrative district Nicoline was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Golschwitz, Nicoline and Sowade and the manor districts Golschwitz and Nicoline. In 1885 Golschwitz had 379 inhabitants.

In 1933 Golschwitz had 701 inhabitants. In 1934 a Catholic church was built in the village. On July 28, 1936 the place name was changed to Eichenried . In 1939 the place had 675 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Falkenberg OS

On January 22, 1945, the Red Army crossed the Oder near Eichenried. Much of the building was destroyed by fighting in the village. Then the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Golczowice and assigned to the Wroclaw Voivodeship. Most of the remaining German population was expelled in June 1946. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the powiat Brzeski .

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Polish: Kościół Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa ) was built in 1934.
• Brick bell chapel

Web links

Commons : Golczowice (Lewin Brzeski)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ - Population Gmina Lewin Brzeski , December 31, 2012, accessed on August 26, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b} Heimatverein des Kreis Falkenberg O / S: Heimatbuch des Kreis Falkenberg in Oberschlesien. Scheinfeld, 1971. pp. 152-154
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. 170.
4. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1159.
5. ^ Territorial district of Nikoline / Schurgast Castle
6. ↑ AGoFF county 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).