Kempa (Lugnian)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Opole | ||
| Powiat : | Opole | ||
| Gmina : | Lugnian | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 44 ' N , 17 ° 57' E | ||
| Residents : | 995 (March 31, 2011) | ||
| Postal code : | 46-024 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 77 | ||
| License plate : | OPO | ||
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| Street : | Kupp - Jellowa | ||
| Next international airport : | Katowice | ||
Kempa ( Polish Kępa , 1936-1945 Mühlenbach OS ) is a village in the Polish powiat Opolski of the Opole Voivodeship . The village belongs to the bilingual municipality of Lugnian ( Łubniany in Polish ).
geography
Geographical location
Kempa is located in the historical region of Upper Silesia . Kempa is twelve kilometers southwest of Lugnian and four kilometers northeast of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole ( Opole ). Kempa is the southernmost village in the Lugnian municipality.
The place is in the Nizina Śląska ( Silesian Plain ) within the Równina Opolska ( Opole Plain ). Kempa is bounded by two bodies of water. The river Himmelwitzer Wasser (Polish: Chrząstawa ) runs north of the village, and in the south the Swornica runs to the city limits of Opole . The state road Droga krajowa 46 runs south of the village .
Neighboring places
Neighboring towns of Kempa are Luboschütz (Polish Luboszyce ) in the north, Sowade (Polish Zawada ) in the east and Krzanowitz (Polish Krzanowice ) in the west and the district town of Opole in the south.
history
The first written mention of the village is dated to 1254. In 1337 the village was named Campa in a document . 1402 the place is mentioned as Campa . Until 1514 the village was under the care of Bohemian knights. After that the village was sold. In 1618 a mill is first mentioned in the village, in the place of which grain was ground until the 1960s.
In 1725 only seven farming families lived in Kempa. The development of the village was hampered by several fires in the next decades. After the First Silesian War in 1742, Kempa and most of Silesia fell to Prussia . In 1782 the village had 13 houses. In 1784, 218 people lived in the village.
After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Kempa from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a Catholic school and 64 other houses in the village. In the same year, 336 people lived in Kempa, all of them Catholic. In 1861 Kempa had 342 inhabitants. In 1874 the administrative district Königlich Sackrau was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Königlich Sackrau, Kempa and Goslawitz and. In 1899 Kempa was incorporated into the Sowade district.
During the referendum in Upper Silesia in 1921, 160 of the 351 inhabitants of the village voted for integration into Poland and 183 to remain in the German Reich. In 1925 the village had 100 houses with 641 inhabitants. In 1933 there were 643 people in Kempa. On June 8, 1936 the place name was changed to Mühlenbach OS . In 1939 there were 734 people in Mühlenbach.
In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was given the official name Kępa . After the war, the number of residents initially decreased. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship. In 1965, 779 people lived here again. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Opolski. In 2004 Kempa celebrated its 750th anniversary. A memorial stone was erected at ul. Luboszycka in the center of the village. On April 30, 2010, the village was also given the official German place name Kempa . In 2014 ul. Opolska was redesigned.
Mühlenbacher Mariengruppe
On September 21, 1936, a research group from Germany discovered the Mühlenbacher Mariengruppe , also known as the Madonna von Kępa . According to an expert opinion by the art historian Dr. Iron, it is said to be an early work by the sculptor Veit Stoss . The Mariengruppe had a height of 1.5 meters.
After the discovery, the work was first laid out in the Opole City Museum. later it came to the Upper Silesian Regional Museum in Bytom via Breslau . After the war, the Mühlenbacher Mariengruppe was brought to the Warsaw National Museum. Today the work is considered "lost".
economy
The primary sector is the largest economic factor. The largest employer in the village is the JAL company , a manufacturer of processed cheese and sweetened condensed milk . Other larger companies include the building materials company Zofmar at ul. Opolska, the transport company Rudatom and the Wodnicki bakery .
Attractions
- Neo-Gothic chapel on Opolska Street (at the level of house No. 8)
- Bell chapel from 1800 on Opolska Street (at the level of house No. 9)
- Three-storey chapel with a statue of Christ (crossing ul.Luboszyka and Słowackiego)
- War memorial for the fallen of the two world wars in the village center
- Memorial to those who fell in both world wars in the village cemetery
- Memorial stone for the 750th anniversary of Kempa
- Stone Bridge from 1912 over the Swornica River - The bridge was widened in 2013 but kept its original architectural look.
- Stone bridge from 1912 over the Himmelwitzer Wasser river
societies
- Football club LZS Rudatom Kępa
Sons and daughters of the village
- Wilhelm Kurtz (* 1935) - retired Archbishop of Madang
Web links
- Website of the village (polish)
- Website of the company "JAL" (Polish)
literature
- Czech, K. (2014): Commune Lubniany in words and pictures - attempt of a historical-cultural monograph. Lubniany (Wydawca Lubnianski Osrodek Kultury), pp. 82-89
Individual evidence
- ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on April 15, 2019
- ^ 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. 281.
- ^ Territorial district of Sowade / Hinterwasser
- ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 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).
Biadacz | Brinnitz (Brynica) | Lugnian Dombrowka (Dąbrówka Łubniańska) | Heinrichsfelde (Grabie) | Jellowa (Jełowa) | Kempa (Kępa) | Kobyllno (Kobylno) | Kollanowitz (Kolanowice) | Luboschütz (Luboszyce) | Lugnian (Łubniany) | Massow (Masów)