Goslawice (Opole)

Goslawice Goslawitz
	Goslawice Goslawitz
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	District-free city
District of:	Opole
Geographic location :	50 ° 41 ′  N , 17 ° 57 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 10 "  N , 17 ° 57 ′ 14"  E
Height :	150-175 m npm
Residents :	3100 (2017)
Postal code :	49-120
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OP
Economy and Transport
Street :	DW 423 Opole - Kędzierzyn-Koźle
Rail route :	Kędzierzyn-Koźle-Opole railway line
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Gosławice ( German Goslawitz , 1936–1945 Ehrenfeld OS ) is a district of the independent city of Opole in the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

Gosławice is located in the historical region of Upper Silesia in the Opole region . The place is about three kilometers northeast of downtown Opole.

Gosławice lies in the Nizina Śląska ( Silesian Plain ) within the Równina Opolska ( Opole Plain ). The state road Droga krajowa 46 runs north of the village . The village is on the Opole – Namysłów railway line . To the west, directly adjacent to the old town center, is the Osiedle Armii Krajowej prefabricated housing estate from the 1970s. To the southeast is the Osiedle Malinka prefabricated housing estate .

Until the end of the 19th century, the Kalichtich , the largest lake in Upper Silesia at the time, was located east of the village .

Neighboring communities

Gosławice borders in the southeast on the Opole district Kolonia Gosławicka ( Colony Goslawitz ), in the south on Śródmieście ( Opole city center ) and in the west on Zakrzów ( Sakrau ). In the north lies the village of Kempa ( Kępa ), which belongs to the municipality of Lugnian, and the village of Sowade ( Zawada ), which belongs to the municipality of Turawa, in the northeast .

history

Church of the Assumption from 1933

Chapel from 1888 at Wiejska Street

Osiedle Armii Krajowej

The place was first mentioned in 1254 as "Goslavitz" and 1301 as "villa Goslavici". Goslawice was also mentioned in 1471 as Goslawicz and in 1532 as Goszlawitz . The place name is derived from the former possessions and means roughly the village of Gosław .

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

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Goslawitz from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a Catholic school, a forge, a weaving mill and 135 houses in the village. In the same year 875 people lived in Goslawitz, all of them Catholic. In 1861 the place had 1,025 inhabitants. In 1865 the village had 33 farmers, 16 gardeners, six farmers and 42 local farmers. In addition, there were three shoemakers, two blacksmiths, a wheelwright, four tailors and a carpenter in the village in the same year. In 1865 the Catholic school had 145 students. In the middle of the 19th century, the Goslawitz colony (today: Kolonia Gosławicka ) was founded southeast of the town . In 1885 Goslawitz had 1534 inhabitants. With the completion of the railway line between Opole and Namslau in 1889, Goslawitz received a connection to the rail network of the Upper Silesian Railway .

In the referendum on March 20, 1921, 735 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 716 for Poland. Goslawitz remained with the German Empire. In 1933 the Assumption Church was built. In the same year 3575 people lived in the village. On May 19, 1936 the place name was changed to Ehrenfeld OS . In 1939 the village had 4260 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .

On 23/24 January 1945 the Red Army conquered Opole and the villages to the right of the Oder. After the Second World War, the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Gosławice and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . Between 1945 and 1954 Gosławice was the seat of Gmina Gosławice . In 1974 the place was incorporated into the city of Opole . From the mid-1970s to the 1980s, the large slab-built housing estate Osiedle Armii Krajowej was built west of Gosławice .

Excavations in Wichulla

In the 19th century, the tomb of a Vandal chief, known as the princely grave, was discovered in the Grobla (Wichulla) colony . The grave goods included a drinking service , consisting of two water buckets, two wine buckets, a mixing kettle, a ladle, a colander (sieve) and a silver bowl decorated with horses. The silver bowl was restored by Paul Telge . The colony is now part of Gosławice.

Silver bowl from Wichulla

Attractions

Honorary memorial for the fallen of the First World War

• The Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Polish: Kościół Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny ) was completed in 1933 and festively consecrated on November 8th.
• Honorary memorial for the fallen of the First World War
• Chapel from 1888 at Wiejska Street
• Chapel with bell tower in the 18th century cemetery

traffic

The Opole Gosławice stop is on the Opole – Namysłów railway line .

societies

• German Friendship Circle
• Sports club LZS Gosławice
• Voluntary fire brigade OSP Opole-Gosławice

Web links

Commons : Gosławice (Opole)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Site from Gosławice
• Website of the DFK in Gosławice

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brochure City Districts Opole p. 22 (Polish)
2. ^ Districts of Opole
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. 173.
4. ^ Heinrich Adamy: The Silesian place names and their meaning and Entstechung . Verlag von Priebotsch`s Buchhandlung (Breslau) 1888, p. 16.
5. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
6. ^ Opole district. In: agoff.de, AGoFF , accessed on April 1, 2020.
7. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ ^{a b} Mariä-Himmelfahrt-Kirche ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Opole (Polish: Opole). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
10. ↑ Guide to the exhibition Work and Culture in Upper Silesia; 1919 ( online )