Goschütz (Birawa)

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Goschütz Goszyce (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski (Kandrzin-Cosel)
Gmina : Birawa
Geographic location : 50 ° 16 '  N , 18 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 16 '4 "  N , 18 ° 24' 54"  E
Residents :
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OK
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Katowice



Goschütz (Polish Goszyce ) is a village in Upper Silesia . It is located in the Birawa commune in the Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski powiat (Kandrzin-Cosel district) in the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Goschütz is located around 13 kilometers east of the municipality of Birawa , 18 kilometers southeast of the district town of Kędzierzyn-Koźle ( Kandrzin-Cosel ) and 56 kilometers southeast of the voivodeship capital Opole .

The Birawka flows through the village .

history

The place originated in the early 16th century and was first mentioned in 1532.

The place was mentioned in 1783 in the book Beytrage for the description of Silesia as Goschü (t) z and Goschti (t) z , belonged to a princess of Hohenlohe and was in the district of Tost and had 87 inhabitants, a blast furnace, a mill, six farmers and five Gardener. In 1818 the place was mentioned as Goschütz . At the beginning of the 18th century a blast furnace was built in Goschütz in order to be able to use the wood from the wooded area industrially. This existed until 1848. In 1865 Goschütz consisted of a village community and a dominium. At that time the village had seven farms, four gardeners and 33 cottages. There was also a grinding mill and a sawmill. The place was schooled after Jakobswalde .

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 45 eligible voters voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 88 for membership of Poland. After the division of Upper Silesia, Goschütz remained with the German Empire . On May 16, 1936, the place was renamed Meisenbusch in the course of a wave of renaming during the Nazi era . Until 1945 the place was in the district of Cosel .

In 1945 the previously German town came under Polish administration and was then attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed the Polish Goszyce . The district of Cosel was renamed Powiat Kozielski. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1975 the powiat Kozielski was dissolved. In 1999 the place came to the newly founded Powiat Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski . On April 23, 2007, German was introduced as the second official language in the Birawa community. On January 10, 2011, the place was also given the official German place name Goschütz .

Sights and buildings

  • The Herz-Jesu-Kirche, originally a path chapel that was expanded in the 20th century.
  • crossroads
  • Wayside shrine from 2007 with the figure of St. Francis of Assisi
  • The Maria Magdalenen Chapel in the forest towards the village of Althammer.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the municipality
  2. Friedrich Albert Zimmermann: Additions to the Description of Silesia, Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
  3. ^ Geographical-statistical handbook on Silesia and the county of Glatz, Volume 2 , 1818
  4. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
  5. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )