Kerpen (Oberglogau)

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Kerpen
Kierpień
Kerpen Kierpień does not have a coat of arms
Kerpen Kierpień (Poland)
Kerpen Kierpień
Kerpen
Kierpień
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Prudnik
Gmina : Upper Logau
Geographic location : 50 ° 24 '  N , 17 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '30 "  N , 17 ° 51' 21"  E
Residents :
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OPR
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Katowice



The Hotzenplotz in Kerpen
church
Fallen memorial
Townscape

Kerpen (Polish: Kierpień ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Kerpen is located in the municipality of Oberglogau ( Głogówek ) in the powiat Prudnicki (Neustadt OS district) in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

Kerpen is six kilometers north of the municipality of Oberglogau , 22 kilometers east of the district town Prudnik (Neustadt OS) and 31 kilometers south of the voivodeship capital Opole (Opole).

An arm of the Hotzenplotz flows through the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Kerpen are Zowade ( Zawada ) and Neuvorwerk ( But ) in the west, Schreibersdorf ( Pisarzowice ) in the north, Nowy Dwór Prudnicki (Neuhof) in the northeast, Repsch ( Rzepcze ) in the southeast and Leschnig ( Leśnik ) and Blaschewitz ( Błażejowice Dolnejowice ) in the southeast ).

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in the 13th century. The place name should be derived from the Latin word "Carpio", which means carp pond. In 1335 a church was first mentioned in the village as "ecclesia de Kepowa". In 1831 the Adelenhof Vorwerk was built. In 1865 the place had 17 farmers, 25 gardeners and 14 cottagers. At that time Kerpen had a Catholic school with 107 students.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 266 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 165 for Poland. Kerpen remained with the German Empire . Until 1945 the place was in the district of Neustadt OS

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Kierpień and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship and since 1999 it has belonged to the powiat Prudnicki . On April 22, 2009 , German was introduced as the second official language in the municipality of Oberglogau , which Kerpen belongs to. On December 1, 2009, the place was also given the official German place name Kerpen .

Sights and monuments

  • Parish church, built around 1655
  • Wayside crosses
  • Fallen memorial

societies

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Julius Zupitza (1844–1895), German Anglicist and founder of English philology in Germany

Web links

Commons : Kerpen (Oberglogau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Website of the municipality , accessed in December 2011
  2. ↑ The art monuments of the administrative district of Opole, 1894
  3. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
  4. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )