Kochanowitz

Kotschanowitz Chocianowice
Help on coat of arms	Kotschanowitz Chocianowice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Kluczbork
Gmina :	Gross Lassowitz
Geographic location :	50 ° 56 '  N , 18 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '22 "  N , 18 ° 16' 42"  E
Height :	200-220 m npm
Residents :	1125 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	46-280
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OKL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice-Pyrzowice

Kotschanowitz ( Polish Chocianowice , 1936-1945 Kiefernrode ) is a village in the Polish powiat Kluczborski of the Opole Voivodeship . It belongs to the bilingual community of Gross Lassowitz .

geography

Geographical location

Kotschanowitz is located in the northwest of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is about ten kilometers northeast of the community seat Groß Lassowitz , six kilometers southeast of the district town Kluczbork (Kreuzburg OS) and 47 kilometers northeast of the voivodeship capital Opole .

The Stober flows north of Kotschanowitz . The Lublinitz – Kreuzburg also runs north .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Kotschanowitz are in the northeast Bąków (German Bankau ), in the southeast Schiorke (Polish Ciarka ), in the south Grunowitz ( Gronowice ) and Klein Lassowitz ( Lasowice Małe ), in the west Kuniów (German Kuhnau ) and in the northwest Kluczbork ( Kreuzburg) ).

history

Schrotholzkirche

The Marienkirche

Memorial to the fallen of the First World War

The place originated in the 13th century at the latest and was first mentioned in a document on November 2, 1252 in the founding deed of Kreuzburg. In 1534 the village was mentioned as Krzezanowitz . Its name derives from the Polish word kot (dt. Cat ) and means roughly Katzendorf .

In 1662 the Schrotholzkirche was built in the village.

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Kotschanowitz fell to Prussia . Until secularization, the village belonged to the Kreuzherren-Commende in Kreuzburg, after which it belonged to the domain treasury. After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community of Kotschanowitz belonged to the district of Rosenberg OS in the administrative district of Opole from 1816 . In 1845 there was a Catholic church, a Catholic school and 141 other houses in the village. In the same year 1020 people lived in Kotschanowitz, 28 of them Protestant and four Jewish. In 1865 Kotschanowitz was very rich in craftsmen, there were a baker, two shoemakers, a tailor, four bricklayers, two blacksmiths, a locksmith, a linen weaver, two water mills and two hand millers. There are also two food dealers, two innkeepers, two civil servants, four municipal officials, as well as several servants and maids, day laborers and manual workers. In addition to a church, there was a Catholic school, two Kretschams, seven factory buildings, mills and private magazines.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 756 eligible voters voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 192 for membership in Poland. After the partition of Upper Silesia, Kotschanowitz remained with the German Empire . In 1925 there were 1,494 people living in the village, in 1933 1508 people. In 1936, the city in the wake of a wave of local renaming was the Nazi era in Kiefernrode renamed. In 1939 Kiefernrode had 1931 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Rosenberg OS

In 1945 the until then German place came under Polish administration and was then attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed the Polish Chocianowice . In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship and the re-established Powiat Kluczborski . On August 16, 2010, the place was also given the official German place name Kotschanowitz .

Attractions

• The scrap wood church of St. Mary's Birth (Polish Kościół pw. Nawiedzenia NMP ) was built in 1662. A church in the village was mentioned as early as 1376. Until secularization , the church belonged to the Kreuzherren-Commende in Kreuzburg. The church has a flat-roofed country house and a three-sided closed choir on the east side. On the west side there is a free-standing bell tower. The baroque main altar and the pulpit were probably built around 1726. In 1954 the building was listed as a historical monument.
• A new Catholic parish church was built between 1958 and 1959 directly behind the scrap wood church. It was also dedicated to the Birth of St. Mary.
• Memorial stone for the fallen of the First World War
• Memorial stone for the fallen of World War II
• Wayside cross

literature

• Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , pp. 217f.

Web links

Commons : Kotschanowitz  - 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 January 27, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Johann Georg Knie : Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, towns, cities and other places of the royal family. Preuss. Province of Silesia. Breslau 1845, p. 311.
3. ↑ Heinrich Adamy : The Silesian place names, their origin and meaning - A picture from prehistory , Breslau, Priebatsch, 1889, p. 59
4. ↑ Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
5. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Rosenberg district (Polish Olesno). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ↑ List of Monuments of the Opole Voivodeship p. 44 (Polish)