Great Kottorz

Great Kottorz Kotórz Wielki
	Great Kottorz Kotórz Wielki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Opole
Gmina :	Turawa
Geographic location :	50 ° 44 '  N , 18 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '34 "  N , 18 ° 4' 15"  E
Height :	164-167 m npm
Residents :	351 (March 31, 2013)
Postal code :	46-045
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPO
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

Groß Kottorz ( Polish Kotórz Wielki , 1936-1945 Groß Cooking ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Groß Kottorz is located in Gmina Turawa in the Powiat Opolski in the Polish Voivodeship of Opole . Groß Kottorz has been officially bilingual (Polish and German) since 2012.

geography

Geographical location

Groß Kottorz is located in the historical region of Upper Silesia in the Opole region . The place is two kilometers south of the township of Turawa and twelve kilometers northeast of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole .

The place is in the Nizina Śląska ( Silesian Plain ) within the Równina Opolska ( Opole Plain ). Groß Kottorz is located west of Lake Turawa .

Neighboring places

Neighboring places of Groß Kottorz are in the west Klein Kottorz ( Kotórz Mały ), in the north the municipal seat Turawa , in the southeast Szczedrzyk (Eng. Sczedrzik ) and in the south Tempelhof ( Niwki ).

history

St. Michael Church

Interior of the church

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1295. In the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis of 1295 the place is mentioned as "Chotors". In 1399 the place was named Magna Kottocz .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Groß Kottorz and most of Silesia fell to Prussia . In 1782 a new church was built on the initiative of Anna Barbara von Gaschin from Turawa. The church was consecrated by Bishop Emanuel Schymowski.

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Kotórz Wielki from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1840 a massive school was built and the place had 385 inhabitants. In 1845 there was a Catholic parish church, a Catholic school, a hospital, an outbuilding, a pitch oven and 77 houses in the village. In the same year 378 people lived in Groß Kottorz, seven of them Jewish. In 1865 the place had nine farmers, 20 gardeners and 24 cottagers, and a hospital is also mentioned at this time. In 1874 the Turawa district was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Friedrichsfelde, Groß Kottorz, Klein Kottorcz, Kobyllno and Turawa and the manor districts Kobyllno and Turawa.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 164 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 164 for Poland. Groß Kottorz remained with the German Empire . In 1933 there were 547 inhabitants. On 19 May 1936, the site was in large cooking renamed. In 1939 the place had 474 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Kotórz Wielki and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Opolski . On March 8, 2012, the place was also given the official German place name Groß Kottorz .

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic Church of St. Michael (Polish Kościół św. Michała Archanioła ) was built between 1782 and 1784 in the Baroque style. A wooden chapel has existed on the same site since the 13th century. On June 25, 1801, the church was consecrated by the Breslau bishop Emanuel Schimonski. The church has been a listed building since 1959.
• Memorial to the fallen and victims in World War I and World War II
• Wayside shrine with the figure of Saint Hedwig of Silesia
• Wayside shrine
• crossroads

societies

• German Friendship Circle
• Volunteer Fire Brigade OSP Kotórz Wielki

Web links

Commons : Groß Kottorz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the municipality of Turawa (Polish) (accessed on May 2, 2018)
2. ^ 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. 312.
3. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
4. ^ History of Groß Kottorz
5. ^ Turawa Territorial District
6. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Opole district (Polish Opole). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ^ History of the Church of St. Michael
9. ↑ List of Monuments of the Opole Voivodeship p. 101 (Polish)