Janowa (Otmuchów)

Janowa Johnsdorf
	Janowa Johnsdorf
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Nysa
Gmina :	Otmuchów
Geographic location :	50 ° 31 '  N , 17 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '11 "  N , 17 ° 7' 29"  E
Height :	250-320 m npm
Residents :	154 (December 31, 2018)
Postal code :	48-385
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	ONY
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw Airport

Janowa (German Johnsdorf ) is a village of the urban and rural municipality Otmuchów in the powiat Nyski in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland.

geography

Geographical location

The street village Janowa is located in the southwest of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is about nine kilometers northwest of the municipality seat Otmuchów , about 17 kilometers northwest of the district town Nysa and about 72 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole . About four kilometers west of the village is the border with the Lower Silesian Voivodeship .

Janowa lies in the Przedgórze Sudeckie ( Sudeten foothills ) within the Wzgórza Niemczańsko-Strzelińskie ( Nimptsch-Strehlen-Heights ). The Maciejowicki Potok ( Matzwitzer Water ) flows south of the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring places of Janowa are in the northeast Ogonów ( Ogen ), in the southeast Starowice ( Starrwitz ), in the south Maciejowice ( Matzwitz ) and in the west Lasowice ( Laßwitz ).

history

Johnsdorf Castle

In the work Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from the years 1295-1305, the place is first mentioned as Janowiczi . The place name Jonsdorff has been handed down for the year 1374 .

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

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Johnsdorf from 1816 to district Grottkau in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a Catholic pilgrimage church, a pub, a distillery and 21 other houses in the village. In the same year, 143 people lived in Johnsdorf, five of them Protestants. In 1855, 133 people lived in Johnsdorf. In 1865 there were seven outdoor gardening jobs, six cottages and a mill. The villagers were trained and parish in Laßwitz. In 1874 the district of Lobedau was founded, which consisted of the rural communities of Johnsdorf, Laßwitz and Lobedau and the manor districts of Johnsdorf and Lobedau. In 1885 Johnsdorf had 65 inhabitants.

In 1933 there were 188 people in Johnsdorf and 167 in 1939. Until the end of the war in 1945, the place belonged to the district of Grottkau .

As a result of the Second World War, Johnsdorf, like most of Silesia, fell under Polish administration in 1945 . It was subsequently renamed Janowa and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. The German population was largely expelled . In 1950 it was incorporated into the Opole Voivodeship. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Nyski . In 2006 169 people lived in the village.

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic Rochus Church (Polish Kościół św. Rocha ) was built in 1913.
• The Johnsdorf castle was in the second half of the 17th century in the style of Baroque built. The two-storey building has a mansard roof and a stepped gable. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1966.
• Memorial to the fallen soldiers of the First World War

Web links

Commons : Janowa (Otmuchów)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Graport o stanie Gminy Otmuchów za 2018 rok , accessed on February 24, 2020
2. ^ H. Markgraf, Wilhelm Schulte: Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis (=  Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae . Volume XIV ). Breslau 1889 (Latin, dokumentyslaska.pl [accessed February 24, 2020]).
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. 259.
4. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1228 ( preview in Google book search).
5. ↑ Territorial District Lobedau
6. ↑ Grottkau district. In: agoff.de, AGoFF , accessed on February 24, 2020.
7. ^ Administrative history - Grottkau district ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Characterystyka Gminy Otmuchów 2006 (Polish)
9. ↑ History and pictures of St. Rochus Church (Polish)
10. ^ Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , p. 372.
11. ↑ Monument register of the Opole Voivodeship (Polish; PDF; 913 kB)