Krępna

Krępna Krempa
Help on coat of arms	Krępna Krempa
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Krapkowicki (Krappitz)
Gmina :	Zdzieszowice (Deschowitz)
Geographic location :	50 ° 27 '  N , 18 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '47 "  N , 18 ° 4' 23"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OKR
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice-Pyrzowice

Krępna (German Krempa ) is a village in Upper Silesia . It is located in the municipality of Zdzieszowice (Deschowitz) in the powiat Krapkowicki (Krappitz district) in the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Krępna is located about five kilometers northwest of the municipal seat Zdzieszowice (Deschowitz), eight kilometers east of the district town Krapkowice (Krappitz) and 27 kilometers south of the voivodeship capital Opole .

The village is close to the Oder .

history

Peter and Paul Church

Wayside chapel

The place arose in the 13th century at the latest and was mentioned in a document from 1295–1305 in the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis ( Tithe Register of the Diocese of Breslau ) as "Crampna".

The place was mentioned in 1783 in the book Additions to the Description of Silesia as Krempa , belonged to a Count of Gashin and was in the Groß Strehlitz district of the Principality of Opole . At that time he had 177 inhabitants, a Vorwerk , three mills, seven farmers and 24 gardeners . In 1865 Krempa consisted of a manorial farm and a village. The village had ten farmers, 21 gardeners and 21 cottagers, as well as a Catholic school.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 150 people eligible to vote voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 260 for membership in Poland. At Gut Krempa, 51 voted for Germany and eleven for Poland. After the division of Upper Silesia, Krempa remained with the German Empire . In 1936 the place was renamed Ambach in the course of a wave of renaming during the Nazi era . Until 1945 the place was in the district of Groß Strehlitz .

In 1945 the previously German town came under Polish administration and was then joined to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed Krępna in Poland . In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Krapkowicki .

Attractions

• The modern Peter and Paul Church
• Neo-Romanesque wayside chapel with bell tower
• Wayside shrine for Saint Roch
• Wayside crosses

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the municipality
2. ↑ Friedrich Albert Zimmermann: Additions to the Description of Silesia , Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
3. ↑ Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
4. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )