Kępnica

Kępnica German Kamitz
	Kępnica German Kamitz
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Nysa
Gmina :	Nysa
Geographic location :	50 ° 25 '  N , 17 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 25 '1 "  N , 17 ° 23' 35"  E
Height :	260-295 m npm
Residents :	643 (December 31, 2018)
Postal code :	48-303
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	ONY
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Kępnica (German German Kamitz , 1936–1945 Hermannstein OS ) is a village in the rural community Nysa (Neisse) in Poland . It is located in the powiat Nyski (Neisse district) in the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

The anger village Kępnica is located in the southwest of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is about ten kilometers southeast of the municipality and the district town of Nysa and about 62 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Kępnica lies in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) within the Płaskowyż Głubczycki (Leobschützer Loesshügelland) . The village lies on the disused railway line of the former Neisser Kreisbahn .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Kępnica are Hajduki Nyskie ( Heidau ) in the northwest and Wierzbięcice ( Oppersdorf ) in the east .

history

Church of the Assumption of Mary

Village center

In the work Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from the years 1295-1305, the place is first mentioned as Kempnitz magnum . In 1344 it was mentioned as Kemenicz .

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

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community Deutsch Kamitz belonged to the district of Neisse in the administrative district of Opole from 1816 . In 1845 there was a Catholic branch church, a Catholic school and 121 other houses in the village. In the same year, 761 people lived in Deutsch Kamitz, all of them Catholic. In 1855 793 people lived in the village. In 1865 the place had a Scholtisei, 36 farms, 13 gardeners and 48 cottagers. In 1874 the administrative district Deutsch Kamitz was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Deutsch Kamitz and Heidau and the manor district Deutsch Kamitz. In 1885 Deutsch Kamitz had 758 inhabitants.

In 1933 there were 660 people living in Deutsch Kamitz. On August 18, 1936, the place was renamed in Hermannstein OS in the course of a wave of renaming of the Nazi era . In 1939 Hermannstein had 655 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Neisse .

In 1945 the place came under Polish administration and was renamed Kępnica , the population was expelled. In 1950 Kępnica came to the Opole Voivodeship. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Nyski .

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Polish: Kościół Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Marii Panny ) was first mentioned in 1335. The former late Romanesque building was rebuilt in 1754 and 1883. The church building has been a listed building since 1950.
• Path chapel with statue of the Virgin Mary
• Path chapel with statue of Jesus

societies

• Football club LZS Kępnica
• OPS Kępnica Volunteer Fire Brigade

Web links

Commons : Kępnica  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Liczba mieszkańców w Gminie Nysa (Polish), Dec. 31, 2018, accessed on Nov. 25, 2019
2. ↑ Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis
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. 268.
4. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 991.
5. ^ Territorial district of German Kamitz / Hermannstein OS
6. ↑ AGoFF circle Neisse
7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Neisse district (Polish Nysa). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ↑ Monument register of the Opole Voivodeship (Polish; PDF; 913 kB)