Grudzice

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Grudzice
Grudschütz
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Grudzice Grudschütz (Poland)
Grudzice Grudschütz
Grudzice
Grudschütz
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : District-free city
District of: Opole
Geographic location : 50 ° 39 ′  N , 17 ° 59 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 45 "  N , 17 ° 59 ′ 15"  E
Height : 150-170 m npm
Residents : 3100 (2017)
Postal code : 49-120
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OP (OPO)
Economy and Transport
Street : Ext. 435 Opole - Skorogoszcz
Rail route : Tarnowskie Góry – Opole
Next international airport : Wroclaw



Grudzice ( German Grudschütz , also Grudczütz , 1936–1945 Gruden ) is a district of the independent city of Opole in the Polish Voivodeship of Opole .

geography

Geographical location

Grudzice is located in the historical region of Upper Silesia in the Opole region . The place is about five kilometers southeast of downtown Opole.

Grudzice lies in the Nizina Śląska ( Silesian Plain ) within the Równina Opolska ( Opole Plain ). The village lies on the Malina , a left tributary of the Swornica . The Upper Silesian Railway runs north of the village . Furthermore, the provincial road Droga wojewódzka 435 runs through the village and the state road Droga krajowa 46 to the east . To the east of Grudzice is a large forest area. The two bathing lakes Malina I and Malina II are located south of the village .

Neighboring communities

Grudzice borders in the north on Kolonia Gosławicka ( Colony Goslawitz ), in the southeast on Malina ( Malino ), in the southwest on Groszowice ( Groschowitz ) and in the west on Nowa Wieś Królewska ( Königlich Neudorf ). To the east of Grudzice lies the village of Derschau (Polish Suchy Bór ) belonging to the rural community Chronstau ( Gmina Chrząstowice ).

history

Plan by Grudschütz 1854
Church of Our Lady of Fatima

The place was first mentioned in 1223 as Grudnia . In 1532 the village was mentioned again as Grutczütz .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Grudschütz and most of Silesia fell to Prussia .

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Gräfenort from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a royal forest ranger's office, a forest keeper's house and 36 houses in the village. In the same year 337 people lived in Grudschütz, 16 of them Protestants. In 1855 there were 363 people, in 1861 there were 424 people. In 1874 the administrative district of Grudschütz was founded, which consisted of the rural communities of Derschau, Grudschütz, Malino and Schulenburg and the manor district of Grudschütz. In 1885 Grudschütz had 673 inhabitants.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 253 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 422 for Poland. Grudschütz remained with the German Empire . In 1933 there were 1753 inhabitants. On May 19, 1936, the place was renamed Gruden . In 1939 the place had 2,193 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration, was renamed Grudzice and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1959 the construction of the local Catholic Church of Our Lady of Fatima was completed. In 1975 the place was incorporated into the city of Opole .

Attractions

  • The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Fatima (Polish: Kościół Matki Boskiej Fatimskiej ) was built between 1957 and 1959. The church was consecrated on August 11, 1959.
  • Bell chapel on Groszowicka Street
  • Cemetery chapel
  • Memorial stone for the 750th anniversary at ul. Strzelecka

coat of arms

Old seal of the community

Old seals and stamps of the place show a basket of eggs. It points to the agricultural character of the place.

societies

Web links

Commons : Grudzice (Grudschütz)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Brochure City Districts Opole p. 22
  2. ^ Districts of Opole
  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. 186.
  4. Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
  5. Territorial District Grudschütz / Gruden
  6. ^ Opole district. In: agoff.de, AGoFF , accessed on April 1, 2020.
  7. See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  8. Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Opole (Polish: Opole). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ^ Parish of Grudzice
  10. LZS Grudzice