Great Pramsen

Great Pramsen Prężyna
	Great Pramsen Prężyna
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Prudnik
Gmina :	Zülz
Geographic location :	50 ° 23 '  N , 17 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 22 '38 "  N , 17 ° 38' 23"  E
Height :	245 m npm
Residents :	248 (December 31, 2018)
Postal code :	48-210
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPR
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

Groß Pramsen (Polish Prężyna ) is a village in the municipality of Zülz ( Biała ) in the powiat Prudnicki (Neustadt OS district) in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

The street village of Groß Pramsen is located in the south of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is about four kilometers southwest of the Zülz municipality , about eight kilometers northeast of the district town Prudnik and about 40 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Groß Pramsen lies in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) within the Kotlina Raciborska (Ratibor Basin) to the Płaskowyż Głubczycki (Leobschützer Loesshügelland) . The Zülzer Wasser ( Biała ) flows east of the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Groß Pramsen are Mühlsdorf ( Miłowice ) in the northwest , Waschelwitz ( Wasiłowice ) in the north, the city of Zülz in the northeast and east and Prężynka (Klein Pramsen) in the south .

history

View of the church, chapel and wayside shrines

Townscape

The place was first mentioned in 1222 as "Pransinam". The place name Pramsin major has been handed down for the year 1379 .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Grabine and most of Silesia came to Prussia .

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community of Groß Pramsen belonged to the district of Neustadt OS in the administrative district of Opole from 1816 . In 1845 there was a castle, a Vorwerk, a Catholic parish church, a Catholic school and 82 other houses in the village. In the same year, 495 people lived in Groß Pramsen, all of them Catholic. In 1855 566 people lived in Groß Pramsen. In 1865 there were 29 farmers, 20 gardeners and 26 cottages in the village . The Catholic school was attended by 94 students in the same year. In 1874 the district of Zülz-Land was founded, which consisted of the rural communities of Altstadt, Grabine, Groß Pramsen, Ottok, Schönowitz and Waschelwitz. In 1885 Groß Pramsen had 615 inhabitants.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, Groß Pramsen was outside the voting area. In 1933 there were 659 inhabitants. In 1938, Groß Pramsen was incorporated into the Klein Pramsen district. In 1939 Groß Pramsen had 628 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Neustadt OS

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Prężyna and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the powiat Prudnicki . On March 6, 2006 , German was introduced as the second official language in the community of Zülz , which Groß Pramsen belongs to. On November 24, 2008, the place was also given the official German place name Groß Pramsen .

Sights and monuments

• The Roman Catholic Church of St. James (Polish Kościół św. Jakuba Apostoła ) was built between 1888 and 1889. A previous building was first mentioned in 1300. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1966.
• Chapels
• Wayside shrines
• Wayside crosses
• Fallen memorial

Web links

Commons : Groß Pramsen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Graport o stanie Gminy Biała za 2018 rok , accessed on May 14, 2020
2. ↑ History of Groß Pramsen (Polish)
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. 509.
4. ^ Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865, p. 1092
5. ^ Territorial district of Zülz-Land
6. ↑ AGoFF district Neustadt OS
7. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. neustadt_os.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ^ Territorial district of Klein Pramsen
9. ^ Monument register of the Opole Voivodeship