Krzyżowa Dolina

Krzyżowa Dolina Kreuzthal
	Krzyżowa Dolina Kreuzthal
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Opole
Gmina :	Ozimek
Geographic location :	50 ° 39 '  N , 18 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '1 "  N , 18 ° 13' 17"  E
Residents :	683 (Oct 31, 2018)
Postal code :	46-040
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPO
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

Krzyżowa Dolina ( German Kreuzthal ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Krzyżowa Dolina is located in the urban-and-rural municipality Ozimek (Malapane) in the powiat Opolski (Opole district) in the Polish Voivodeship of Opole .

geography

Geographical location

Krzyżowa Dolina is located three kilometers south of the municipality of Ozimek (Malapane) and 21 kilometers east of the county seat and the provincial capital of Opole . The village is located within extensive forest areas.

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Krzyżowa Dolina are Ozimek (Malapane) in the north, Krasiejów (Krascheow) in the northeast, Carmerau ( Spórok ) in the east and Kroschnitz ( Krośnica ) and Boritsch ( Borycz ) in the south .

history

Aerial photo from the 1920s of the Kreuzthal colony

Kreuzthal was founded as a royal colony in 1771 and had 20 colonist posts. The colony was named after Ehrenreich Bogislaus von Creutz (approx. 1670–1733), who was the Prussian minister of state and cabinet secretary under King Friedrich Wilhelm I. Accordingly, the place name was initially written Creutzthal . The first colonist houses were wooden huts. Since the colony was founded in the middle of the forest, the colonists first had to clear trees to make land. The colonists came from the neighboring villages of Schodnia and Krascheow. Each colonist site received 18 acres of fields and six acres of meadow. In 1783 the colonists received an additional six acres and in 1823 8.5 acres.

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Kreuzthal from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1819 a school was set up in the village. In 1845 there was a Catholic school and 49 other houses in the village. In the same year, 379 people lived in Kreuzthal, nine of them Protestants. In 1865, the place had 14 whole and twelve half colony positions, 21 farmhand positions, 13 residential farm positions, 24 residents and 25 migrants. At that time the Catholic school had 85 students. In 1874 the district of Krascheow was founded, which consisted of the rural communities of Antonia, Carmerau, Creutzthal, Hüttendorf, Krascheow and Schodnia and the manor district of Krascheow, chief forestry and the Malapane ironworks.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 59 eligible voters voted to remain in Germany and 228 to belong to Poland. Kreuzthal remained with the German Empire . In 1933 there were 568 inhabitants. In 1939 the place had 620 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was incorporated into the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed Krzyżowa Dolina . In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship and since 1999 it has belonged to the re-established Powiat Opolski . In 1998 the school was closed. On December 31, 2005 the place had 776 inhabitants. In 2001 a chapel and a meeting point were set up in the former school building. The chapel was consecrated to St. Liborius . From 2004 to 2006 a bell tower was built for the chapel, in which three bells were hung. In 2006 they were consecrated to St. Joseph, St. Mary and St. Liborius. In a public survey in the community of Ozimek in 2011, the residents of the place voted for the introduction of the German place name. The municipal council rejected this in 2013.

Sights and monuments

• Village chapel with bell tower - built from 2004 to 2006
• Lady Chapel
• Path chapel with bell tower
• Wayside crosses

societies

• German Friendship Circle
• Sports club LZS Viktoria Krzyżowa Dolina
• Volunteer Fire Brigade OSP Krzyżowa Dolina
• Village renewal group

Personalities

• Helmut Golletz (* 1958) - honorary citizen of the community of Ozimek; Pastor in Bredenborn and Kollerbeck in Germany.

Web links

Commons : Krzyżowa Dolina  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the place
• Article on ozimek.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of Gmina Ozimek (Polish), October 1, 2018, accessed on April 7, 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. 322.
3. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
4. ^ Territorial district of Krascheow / Schönhorst
5. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ 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). 
7. ^ Directory of the DFK on the VdG website ( Memento of the original dated November 9, 2012 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.