Lenkau

Lenkau Łąki Kozielskie
	Lenkau Łąki Kozielskie
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Strzelce Opolskie
Gmina :	Leschnitz
Geographic location :	50 ° 24 ′  N , 18 ° 12 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 18 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E
Residents :	460 ()
Postal code :	47-150
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	EAST
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

Lenkau ( Polish Łąki Kozielskie ) is a place in the bilingual Polish municipality of Leschnitz (Leśnica) in the Strzelce district of the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Lenkau is located around 35 kilometers southeast of Opole and 4 kilometers southeast of Leschnitz in historical Upper Silesia . The Łącka Woda flows through Lenkau .

history

Lenkau was first mentioned in a document from 1336. For a long time, Lenkau belonged to the Catholic parish Rokitsch (Rokicie) - today it belongs to Raschowa . In the parish's visitation records from the 17th century, Lenkau was mentioned as Lęki and Lenky . The history of this place is closely connected with the city of Cosel , to whose district it also belonged. In 1783, Lenkau was the Latifundium of Cosel under the owner Count Plettenberg . In 1817 there were two manor houses in the village, which belonged to the Stwolinsky family. In 1843 the following buildings were mentioned in Lenkau: Castle, Vorwerk , 3 water mills and 79 private houses. The Kuschofka colony was also part of the village.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, which was accompanied by conditions similar to civil war in the area , 224 people in Lenkau voted to stay with Germany and 216 for Poland. Like the entire Cosel district, Lenkau remained with the German Empire.

From 1933, the new National Socialist rulers carried out large-scale renaming of place names of Slavic origin. In 1936 the place name Lenkau was changed to Wolfswiesen .

In 1945 the place fell to Poland as Łąki Kozielskie . 1983–1987 a church in honor of Blessed Bronisława was built in the village. In the village there is also the St. John's Chapel from the 19th century.

In 2006, Gmina Leschnitz , to which Lenkau belongs as a district, introduced German as an auxiliary language and in 2008 introduced bilingual place names.

Population development

The population of Lenkau:

year Residents 1783 185 1844 550 1855 539 1861 643

year Residents 1910 785 1933 790 1939 839 1996 467

traffic

Lenkau had a train station on the Kędzierzyn-Koźle – Kluczbork line .

Footnotes

1. ↑ www.lesnica.pl, Miejscowości Gminy Leśnica ( Memento of January 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 23, 2010
2. ↑ See results of the referendum ; down. on October 17, 2009
3. ↑ Sources of population figures :

   1783: Archived copy ( memento of January 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) - 1844: [1] - 1855, 1861: [2] - 1933, 1939: [3] - 1910: [4]