Kałków (Otmuchów)

Kałków Kalkau
	Kałków Kalkau
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Nysa
Gmina :	Otmuchów
Geographic location :	50 ° 24 '  N , 17 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 24 '21 "  N , 17 ° 11' 15"  E
Height :	200-240 m npm
Residents :	651 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Postal code :	48-385
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	ONY
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw Airport

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

geography

Geographical location

The anger village Kałków is located in the southwest of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is about eight kilometers south of the municipality seat Otmuchów , about 16 kilometers southwest of the district town Nysa and about 75 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Kałków is located in the Przedgórze Sudeckie (Sudeten foothills) within the Przedgórze Paczkowskie (Patschkauer foothills) . A disused railway line of the former Neisser Kreisbahn runs east of the village . The place lies on the Weidenauer Wasser (Polish: Widna ), a right tributary of the Glatzer Neisse .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Kałków are in the north Broniszowice ( Brünschwitz ) and Wierzbno ( Würben ), in the northeast Buków (Baucke) , in the east Jodłów ( Tannenberg ), in the southeast Łąka ( Wiesau ), in the southwest Zwanowice ( Schwandorf ) and in the west Piotrowice Nyskie ( Peterwitz) ).

history

Church of St. Mary Visitation

Former entrance building of Kalkau train station

The place is first mentioned in 1291 as Calcow . The village probably already existed in the 12th century. The year 1132 is engraved in the village church, which testifies to the construction of the church by the Knights Templar. In 1295 the fire of the episcopal court in Calchow is described. In the work Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from the years 1295-1305, the place is mentioned as Kalcow . In 1580 there were 42 hubs.

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

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Kalkau from 1816 to district Neisse in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a Scholtisei , a Catholic parish church, a Catholic school and 84 other houses in the village. In the same year 636 people lived in Kalkau, five of them Protestants. In 1855 741 people lived in Kalkau. In 1865 there were 24 farmers, 25 gardeners, 29 cottagers and two mills in the village. In 1874 the Kalkau district was founded, which consisted of the rural communities of Baucke, Brünschwitz, Kalkau, Peterwitz, Schwandorf and Würben and the manor districts of Baucke, Kalkau, Peterwitz, Schwandorf and Würben. The first head of office was the manor owner Pohl. In 1885 Kalkau had 669 inhabitants.

In 1933 590 and in 1939 601 people lived in Kalkau. During the Second World War there was a temporary labor camp in Kalkau. Until the end of the war in 1945 the place belonged to the Neisse district .

As a result of the Second World War, Kalkau fell under Polish administration in 1945, like most of Silesia . It was subsequently renamed Kałków and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. The German population was largely expelled . In 1950 it was incorporated into the Opole Voivodeship. Kalkau Castle, which remained undamaged during World War II, was demolished in 1970. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Nyski . In 2007, 652 people lived in the village.

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary Visitation and St. George (Polish Kościół Narodzenia NMP i św. Jerzego ) is a brick hall church. A previous building was probably built around 1132 by the Knights Templar. The current building dates from the middle of the 13th century and was built on the plan of a Latin cross. The west tower with blind arcades and battlements was built in the 15th and 16th centuries. Between 1931 and 1933 the building was extended on the eastern side in the style of late expressionism. Most of the interior furnishings date from the 18th century in the Baroque style. Below is the main altar, which was built at the end of the 18th century, and the pulpit, which was built in the second half of the 18th century. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1964
• Next door is the two-storey rectory, which was built in the classicist style at the beginning of the 19th century. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1966
• School building from the 19th century
• Catholic cemetery with listed tombstones
• Reception building of the former Kalkau-Wiesau train station - built in 1911 and now a residential building
• Stone wayside chapel
• Pillar cross

societies

• Football club LZS Kałków
• Volunteer Fire Brigade OSP Kałków

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Graport o stanie Gminy Otmuchów za 2018 rok , accessed on April 12, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b} Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1015 ( preview in the Google book search).
3. ^ H. Markgraf, Wilhelm Schulte: Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis (=  Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae . Volume XIV ). Breslau 1889 (Latin, dokumentyslaska.pl [accessed April 12, 2020]).
4. ^ 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. 265.
5. ^ Territorial district of Kalkau
6. ↑ AGoFF circle Neisse
7. ^ List of labor camps in Opole Silesia
8. ↑ Administrative history - Neisse district ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ History of Kalkau (Polish)
10. ↑ Characterystyka Gminy Otmuchów 2007 (Polish)
11. ↑ ^{a b} Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , p. 413.
12. ↑ ^{a b} Monument register of the Opole Voivodeship (Polish; PDF; 913 kB)