Księży Las (Ujest)

Księży Las
	Księży Las
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Strzelce Opolskie
Gmina :	Ujest
Geographic location :	50 ° 29 ′  N , 18 ° 17 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 34 "  N , 18 ° 17 ′ 12"  E
Residents :
License plate :	EAST

Księży Las (German Xionslas ) is a hamlet belonging to the place Olschowa in Upper Silesia . The Vorwerk Księży Las is located in the municipality of Ujest in the powiat Strzelecki (Groß Strehlitz district) in the Polish Voivodeship of Opole .

Geographical location

Księży Las is ten kilometers northwest of the Ujest municipality , four kilometers south of the district town of Strzelce Opolskie and 34 kilometers southeast of the voivodeship capital Opole .

The Ischl Tower is located north of Księży Las . This can be reached through an avenue that leads to the castle park in Strzelce Opolskie (Groß Strehlitz).

Place name

In some documents from the 19th century the spelling of the place name Ksionslas can be found .

history

In the corridor Ksiądzlas , in which the town is located today, the outdoor gardener Thomas Lippok from Dollna bought a Hube or 30 acres of land , according to a purchase letter dated May 5, 1766 . Imperial Count Philipp von Colonna bought it in exchange for him. In 1795, Count Philipp von Colonna built a Vorwerk on the site and named it Ksiądzlas Xionslas after the old field name .

After the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, Xionslas remained with the German Reich . In the 1930s the place was renamed Andreashof . Until 1945 the place belonged to the district of Groß Strehlitz .

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Księży Las and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. After 1945 the Vorwerk was used as a PGR. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to Powiat Strzelecki . On August 28, 2006, German was introduced as the second official language in the municipality of Ujest, which Księży Las belongs to.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The establishment of the Vorwerk Xionslas . In: From the Chelmer Lande (magazine), issue 2/3, 1927, online.
2. ↑ : Internet site of the village of Dollna ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Polish)