Gracze (Niemodlin)

Gracze Graase
	Gracze Graase
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Opolski
Gmina :	Niemodlin
Geographic location :	50 ° 42 '  N , 17 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 41 '45 "  N , 17 ° 33' 3"  E
Residents :	1548 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	49-100
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPO
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Gracze ( German Graase , also grass ) is a village in Gmina Niemodlin , in Powiat Opolski , the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Trinity Church

Former reception building of Graase train station

Basalt open pit mine

Geographical location

The village is located in the Oberschlesien region in the Silesian Plain within the Falkenberg plain , about ten kilometers northwest of Niemodlin (Falkenberg) and about 33 kilometers west of Opole .

There is an open- cast basalt mine south of the village .

Neighboring places

To the east of Gracze is the village of Magnuszowice (Great Mangersdorf). In the southeast is the place Molestowice (Mullwitz) , in the south Góra (Guhrau) , in the southwest Rutki (Rautke) , in the west Radoszowice (Raschwitz) and in the north Sarny Wielkie (Groß Sarne) .

history

The Catholic Church in Graase is first mentioned in 1376. The village was probably founded under German law in the 13th century. The parish of Graase is mentioned for the first time in 1447. In 1534 the place was mentioned as Grasz .

During the Thirty Years War , the village was looted and partly burned down.

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Graase and most of Silesia fell to Prussia . In 1744 a wooden Protestant church and a Protestant school were built in the village. This wooden structure burned down on October 9, 1793. Then a new stone Protestant church was built, which was consecrated on the first weekend of Advent in 1795.

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community Graase belonged from 1816 to the district of Falkenberg OS in the administrative district of Opole .

In 1845 there was a Protestant church, a Protestant school, a Vorwerk, a Catholic chapel, a Catholic school, a pub and 99 houses. In the same year 654 people lived in Graase, 80 of them Catholic.

In 1855 310 people lived in the village. In 1865 the village had a school yard, 25 farms, 19 gardeners and 20 cottagers. The two-class school was attended by 171 students in the same year, the Catholic one-class school by 90 children. In 1874 the Graase district was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Graase, Groß Mangersdorf, Groß Sarne, Klein Mangersdorf, Raschwitz and Rautke and the manor districts Graase, Groß Sarne, Klein Mangersdorf, Raschwitz and Rautke. The first head of office was the manor owner, Count Praschma. In 1885 Graase had 587 inhabitants. In 1888 Graase was connected to the Upper Silesian railway network along the Schiedlow - Deutsch-Leippe state railway .

In 1932 60 full and small settler positions were established in Graase. 225 hectares of forest were cleared for this purpose. Most of the settlers came from Westphalia . In 1933, 916 people lived in Graase. In 1939 the village had 1,022 inhabitants. Until the end of the war in 1945 the place belonged to the district of Falkenberg OS

The villagers began to flee on February 4th and 5th. Shortly afterwards the village was taken by the Red Army . After that, the previously German region was placed under Polish administration by the Soviet Union . Graase was renamed Gracze and joined the Gmina Grabin. The immigration of Polish migrants began. After the end of the war, part of the refugee German population returned to Graase. This was evicted on June 21, 1946 by the local Polish administrative authority .

The Protestant church, damaged in the war, was demolished after 1945. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . Passenger traffic on the railway line between Gracze and Szydłów ceased in 1996. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Opolski as part of Gmina Niemodlin .

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic Trinity Church (Polish Kościół Trójcy Świętej ) was first mentioned in 1376. The current building dates from 1696 and was rebuilt in 1824. The church building has been a listed building since 1959.
• Former reception building of Graase train station

societies

• Sports club Skalnik Gracze
• Volunteer Fire Brigade OSP Gracze

traffic

State road 46 runs through the village . Motorway 4 runs north of the village .

The place was on the now disused railway line Szydłów – Lipowa Śląska .

Web links

Commons : Gracze  - Collection of Images

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} 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. 174 .
3. ↑ Trinity Church Gracze
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Heimatverein des Kreis Falkenberg O / S (Ed.): Heimatbuch des Kreis Falkenberg in Oberschlesien. Scheinfeld 1971, pp. 169-171.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1133 .
6. ↑ Territorial District Graase
7. ↑ District of Falkenberg OS
8. ↑ 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). 
9. ↑ Gracze Evangelical Church
10. ^ List of Monuments of the Opole Voivodeship, p. 95 (Polish).