Kollanowitz

Kollanowitz Kolanowice
Help on coat of arms	Kollanowitz Kolanowice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Opole
Gmina :	Lugnian
Area :	5.6  km²
Geographic location :	50 ° 45 '  N , 17 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 44 '33 "  N , 17 ° 59' 23"  E
Residents :	552 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	46-024
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPO
Economy and Transport
Street :	Luboschütz - Wengern
Next international airport :	Katowice

Kollanowitz ( Polish Kolanowice , 1936-1945 Kniedorf ) is a village in the Polish powiat Opolski of the Opole Voivodeship . The village belongs to the bilingual municipality of Lugnian ( Łubniany in Polish ).

geography

Geographical location

St. Barbara Church

Village party at ul. Szkolna

Kollanowitz is located in the historical region of Upper Silesia . The village is located about five kilometers south of the municipal seat of Lugnian and about ten kilometers northeast of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole ( Opole ).

Kollanowitz lies on both sides of the Mała Panew , a right tributary of the Oder . The northern part of the village is on an island. The Droga krajowa 45 road runs east of the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Kollanowitz are in the north Massow (Polish Masów ), in the east Wengern (Polish Węgry ), in the south Sowade (Polish Zawada ), in the southwest Luboschütz (Polish Luboszyce ) and in the west Biadacz .

history

Kollanowitz was probably mentioned as villa Colini as early as 1251 . The first mention of the current name comes from 1375, Kolonowicz .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Kollanowitz fell with most of Silesia to Prussia . In 1784 a school and a mill are mentioned in the village.

In 1811 the scrap wood church of St. Barbara from Opole was brought to Kollanowitz and built in the south at the cemetery in 1812. After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Kolanowice from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a Catholic church, a Catholic school, a forge, a bleaching shop, a linen mill and 46 houses in the village. In the same year, 269 people lived in Kollanowitz, four of whom were Protestants and five were Jewish. In 1861 Kollanowitz had 269 inhabitants. In 1874 the administrative district Königshuld was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Königshuld, Kollanowitz and Wengern. In 1890 327 people lived in the village.

During the referendum in Upper Silesia in 1921, 208 people voted for integration into Poland and 84 to remain in the German Reich. In 1933 there were 1,784 people in Kollanowitz. On May 19, 1936 the place name was changed to Kniedorf . In 1939 Kniedorf had 1909 inhabitants. Until 1945 the village remained in the district of Opole in the administrative district of Königshuld .

In 1945 the previously German town of Kniedorf came under Polish administration and was renamed Kolanowice 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 April 30, 2010, the village was also given the official German place name Kollanowitz . Today around 511 people live in the village (as of 2014).

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic St. Barbara Church was built in 1678. The scrap wood church once stood in Opole at what was then the Bytom Gate , today's Plac Wolności . In the course of the secularization of 1811, the church was dismantled and acquired by the Kollanowitz rural community. In 1812 the building in Kollanowitz was rebuilt. The church is now part of the wooden architecture trail in the Opole region. The church has been a listed building since 1964.
• The church is surrounded by the local cemetery. Numerous graves from German times have been preserved here to this day.
• Path chapel on Szkolna Street
• Crossroads at the southern entrance to the village
• Road cross from 1931 at ul. Powstańców Śląskich

literature

• Czech, K. (2014): Commune Lubniany in words and pictures - an attempt at a historical-cultural monograph. Lubniany (Wydawca Lubnianski Osrodek Kultury), pp. 96-103

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on April 15, 2019
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. 301.
3. ^ Territorial district of Königshuld
4. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ 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). 
6. ↑ List of Monuments of the Opole Voivodeship p. 95 (Polish)