Great Nimsdorf

Groß Nimsdorf Naczęsławice
Help on coat of arms	Groß Nimsdorf Naczęsławice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Kędzierzyn-Koźle (Kandrzin-Cosel)
Gmina :	Pawlowitzke
Geographic location :	50 ° 19 ′  N , 17 ° 57 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 38 "  N , 17 ° 56 ′ 45"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OK
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice-Pyrzowice

View of town with church

Landscape near Groß Nimsdorf

Old grave slab

Groß Nimsdorf (Polish: Naczęsławice ) is a village in Upper Silesia . It is located in the municipality of Pawlowitzke in the powiat Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski (Kandrzin-Cosel district) in the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Groß Nimsdorf is about ten kilometers northwest of the municipal seat of Pawłowiczki ( Pawlowitzke ), 20 kilometers west of the district town of Kędzierzyn-Koźle ( Kandrzin-Cosel ) and 41 kilometers south of the voivodeship capital Opole .

history

The place was created in the 13th century at the latest and was first mentioned in a document on September 8, 1223 as "Nazhlai villa". In the document the place belonged to the district Kasimir. 1295–1305 the place was mentioned together with Klein Nimsdorf in the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis ( tithe register of the diocese of Breslau ) as "Naceslavicze relicte Naczconis" or "Naceslavicze Brenconis". Other mentions were Nacesslavichi (1234), Naceslavicze (1305), Naculchsicz (1306), Nymmsdorff or Nymsdorff (1400), Nymandsdorff (1447) and Neczeslawicz (1479). On July 24th, 1321 Arnold von Gläsen was confirmed the goods Groß Nimsdorf and Grötsch, which were also exempt from cattle tax.

The place was mentioned in 1783 in the book Entries describing Silesia as Gros Niemsdorf and Gros Niembsdorff , consisted of two parts, belonged to the Minorites of Oberglogau and was in the district of Cosel and had 364 inhabitants, a Vorwerk, a Catholic parochial church, a school, a Mill, 22 farmers, 36 gardeners and a few cottagers. In 1865, Groß Nimsdorf consisted of a church village and a manor. At that time the village had 25 farms, 35 gardeners and 51 cottages and a water mill powered by the Straduna brook .

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 462 eligible voters voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 168 for membership of Poland. Groß Nimsdorf remained with the German Empire after the division of Upper Silesia . 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 Naczęsławice in Poland on September 9, 1947 . 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 September 30, 2014, the place was also given the official German place name Groß Nimsdorf .

Attractions

• The baroque Roman Catholic Church of Stanislaus from 1724
• Various chapels
• Various wayside crosses
• Memorial to the fallen (First World War)
• Memorial to the fallen and victims of World War II

Web links

Commons : Naczęsławice  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Codex diplomaticus Silesiae, Volume 14
2. ↑ Lud - Kwartalnik Etnograficzny, Volumes 19-20
3. ↑ Augustin Weltzel: History of the city, rule and fortress Cosel , Ratibor 1866
4. ↑ Friedrich Albert Zimmermann: Additions to the Description of Silesia, Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
5. ↑ Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
6. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )