Klink (Upper Silesia)

Klink Popielowska Kolonia
	Klink Popielowska Kolonia
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Opole
Gmina :	Poppelau
Area :	3.34  km²
Geographic location :	50 ° 48 '  N , 17 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '19 "  N , 17 ° 42' 10"  E
Residents :	121 (December 29, 2017)
Postal code :	46-090
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPO
Economy and Transport
Street :	Droga wojewódzka 458 Obórki –Poppelau
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Klink ( Polish Popielowska Kolonia ) is a village in Poland . Klink is located in the rural community of Poppelau in the Opolski powiat in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

Klink is three kilometers southwest of the municipality Popielów (Alt Poppelau) and 25 kilometers northwest of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole . The Oder flows south of the village and the Brinnitze , a tributary of the Budkowitz stream, flows north . The Droga wojewódzka 458 provincial road runs west of the old village center .

Neighboring places

Neighboring places of Klink are in the northwest Rybna (German Riebnig ), in the northeast the municipality of Poppelau (Polish Popielów ), in the east Alt Schalkowitz (Polish Stare Siołkowice ) and in the south Mikolin (German Nikoline ).

history

The place was founded as a colony during the Frederician colonization. Klink formed a community with the Poppelau and Hojetz colony. The Poppelau colony was founded in 1767 on a former administrative work. The Poppelau colony counted 15 colonists and 19 cottagers in 1865. The place had both Catholic and Protestant residents. In 1914 the Poppelau and Hojetz colony were attached to Klink. In the 1930s a bridge was built over the Oder near Klink, connecting the place with Nikoline.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 213 eligible voters voted to remain in Germany and 57 to belong to Poland. Klink remained with the German Empire . In 1933 there were 245 inhabitants. In 1939 the place had 230 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .

In 1945, with the end of the Second World War , the previously German place came under Polish administration before a peace treaty between the two German states and the victorious powers of the Second World War was signed in 1991 with the Two-Plus-Four Treaty , which made the place an integral part Poland made. The place was attached to the Silesian Voivodeship in 1945 and renamed Popielowska Kolonia . In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship. When the Oder flooded the century in 1997 , the village was completely flooded in July. Since 1999 Klink has belonged to the re-established Powiat Opolski . On September 30, 2014, the place also received the official German place name Klink .

Attractions

• Evangelical cemetery
• Oak "Klara", which has been declared a natural monument and is surrounded by a wooden fence

Web links

• Article on popielow.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of Poppelau (Polish), December 29, 2017, accessed on July 23, 2018
2. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
3. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Opole (Polish: Opole). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
5. ↑ flood 1997 (Polish)
6. ↑ Municipal register ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Natural monuments