Karczów (Dąbrowa)

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Karczów
Schönwitz
Karczów Schönwitz does not have a coat of arms
Karczów Schönwitz (Poland)
Karczów Schönwitz
Karczów
Schönwitz
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Opole
Gmina : Dambrau
Geographic location : 50 ° 42 ′  N , 17 ° 47 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 8 "  N , 17 ° 46 ′ 56"  E
Height : 160 m npm
Residents : 644 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 46-073
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OPO
Economy and Transport
Street : DK94 Zgorzelec - Korczowa
Next international airport : Wroclaw



Karczów (German Schönwitz , 1945–1948 Synowice ) is a village in Upper Silesia . The village is located in the municipality of Dambrau ( Dąbrowa ) in the Powiat Opolski ( Opole District ) in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland.

geography

Geographical location

Karczów is located about two kilometers northeast of the municipality of Dambrau and nine kilometers west of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole ( Opole ). Karczów is located in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) within the Równina Niemodlińska (Falkenberg Plain) . Droga krajowa 94 runs through the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Karczów are in the northwest Skarbiszów ( Karbischau ), in the southwest Dąbrowa ( Dambrau ) and in the west Ciepielowice ( Scheppelwitz ). Wrzoski ( Wreske ) belongs to the city of Opole in the southeast .

history

Schönwitz manor

The village of Schönwitz was probably founded under German law in the 13th century. The place was first mentioned in a document in 1350 as Schenewitz . In 1471 the place is mentioned as Schönwitz . In 1594 a church was built in Schönwitz. In 1679 a villa in Szenowic is mentioned. In 1686 the village was mentioned as Schneowicz and in 1687 as Schoenowitz .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Schönwitz and most of Silesia fell to Prussia . In 1743 and 1783 the place was registered as Schönwitz . In 1783 there were 19 farmers, 30 gardeners and 18 cottagers and 421 residents in the village. In 1791 a castle was built in the village by the landlord von Tschirsky.

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community Schönwitz belonged from 1816 to the district of Falkenberg OS in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a castle, a Catholic church, a brewery, a distillery and 91 houses in the village. In the same year, 782 people lived in Schönwitz, 358 of them Catholic. In 1855 792 people lived in the village. In 1865 the village had 16 farmers, 32 gardeners and 43 cottagers as well as 389 residents. The one-class Protestant school was attended by 92 children in the same year. In 1874 the district of Schönwitz was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Schönwitz and the manor district of Schönwitz. The first head of office was the manor owner Walter in Schönwitz. In 1885 Schönwitz had 651 inhabitants. The Protestant parish Schönwitz / Dambrau was founded in 1891. In the same year the evangelical church was built in the village.

In 1933 793 people lived in Schönwitz. In 1939 there were 794 inhabitants. Until the end of the war in 1945 the place belonged to the district of Falkenberg OS

The Red Army entered Schönwitz on January 24, 1945. The front was around Schönwitz for weeks. Then the previously German place came under Polish administration, was initially renamed Synowice and connected to Gmina Dąbrowa . The remaining German population was expelled in June 1946. In 1948 the village was renamed Karczów . In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Opolski .

Attractions

  • The Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary was consecrated on December 6, 1906. A church in Schönwitz was mentioned as early as 1447. The church was built in neo-Romanesque style.
  • The Protestant church was built in 1891. The Protestant cemetery was laid out in 1840.
  • The neo-baroque Schönwitz Palace was built in 1880. Today it is owned by the Opole University of Technology, along with the adjacent listed park .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku ( XLSX file, Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on August 7, 2019
  2. a b Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1137.
  3. a b History of Karczów
  4. a b c d Heimatverein des Kreis Falkenberg O / S: Heimatbuch des Kreis Falkenberg in Oberschlesien. Scheinfeld, 1971. pp. 233-234
  5. ^ 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. 607.
  6. ^ Territorial district of Schönwitz
  7. District of Falkenberg OS
  8. Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Falkenberg (Polish Niemodlin). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ^ History of the Dambrau community