Klein Kottorz

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Klein Kottorz
Kotórz Mały
Klein Kottorz Kotórz Mały does not have a coat of arms
Klein Kottorz Kotórz Mały (Poland)
Klein Kottorz Kotórz Mały
Klein Kottorz
Kotórz Mały
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Opole
Gmina : Turawa
Geographic location : 50 ° 44 '  N , 18 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '55 "  N , 18 ° 2' 50"  E
Height : 165 m npm
Residents : 959 (March 31, 2013)
Postal code : 46-045
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OPO
Economy and Transport
Rail route : Opole – Kluczbork
Next international airport : Katowice



Klein Kottorz ( Polish Kotórz Mały , 1936–1945 Klein Cooking ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Klein Kottorz is located in the municipality of Turawa in the Powiat Opolski (Opole district) in the Polish Opole Voivodeship . Groß Kottorz has been officially bilingual (Polish and German) since 2012.

geography

Geographical location

Klein Kottorz is located in the historical region of Upper Silesia in the Opole region . The place is three kilometers southwest of the municipality Turawa and twelve kilometers northeast of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole ( Opole ).

Klein Kottorz lies in the Nizina Śląska ( Silesian Plain ) within the Równina Opolska ( Opole Plain ). The Mała Panew ( Malapane ) flows north of the village . Klein Kottorz is on the Opole – Kluczbork railway line .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Klein Kottorz are in the northwest Wengern ( Węgry ), in the northeast Turawa , in the east Groß Kottorz ( Kotórz Wielki ) and in the southwest the hamlets of Borek and Sowade ( Zawada ).

history

Card with Klein Kottorz from 1828
Entrance building of the Kotórz Mały station

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1295. In the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis of 1295 the place is mentioned as "Chotors". In 1399 the place is mentioned as Parua Kotocz .

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

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community kotórz mały from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there were 80 houses in the village. In the same year, 570 people lived in Klein Kottorz, ten of them Protestants. In 1865 the place had 19 farmers, 13 gardeners and 28 cottagers. In 1874 the Turawa district was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Friedrichsfelde, Groß Kottorz, Klein Kottorcz, Kobyllno and Turawa and the manor districts Kobyllno and Turawa. With the opening of the Opole – Kluczbork line in 1899, Klein Kottorz was connected to the Upper Silesian Railway network . In 1891 the volunteer fire brigade was founded in Klein Kottorz.

In 1903 there was a devastating fire in the village, in which 63 houses were destroyed and damaged. In 1913 a school was opened in the village. In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 267 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 305 for Poland. Klein Kottorz remained with the German Empire . In a railway accident at Klein Kottorz station in 1924, one person was killed and five people injured. In 1933 there were 970 inhabitants. On May 19, 1936, the place was renamed Klein Cooking . In 1939 the place had 1,059 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .

On January 22, 1945, the Red Army reached Klein Kottorz and set fire to several houses in the village, including the two restaurants in the village. In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Kotórz Mały and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Opolski . On March 8, 2012, the place was also given the official German place name Klein Kottorz . In 2016 the Miro German Football School opened , which is sponsored by the German Friendship Circle.

Attractions

  • Three-story bell chapel
  • Entrance building of the Kotórz Mały station

societies

Web links

Commons : Klein Kottorz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Population of the municipality of Turawa (Polish) (accessed on May 2, 2018)
  2. ^ 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. 312.
  3. Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
  4. Website of the community ( Memento of the original of July 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.turawa.pl
  5. ^ Turawa Territorial District
  6. a b c d history of the village (Polish)
  7. See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  8. 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).
  9. Miro School Klein Kottorz