Lenschütz

Lenschütz Łężce
	Lenschütz Łężce
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Kędzierzyn-Koźle
Gmina :	Reinschdorf
Geographic location :	50 ° 18 '  N , 18 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '40 "  N , 18 ° 4' 0"  E
Residents :	770
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice
Administration (as of March 2011)
Sołtys :	Jan Plesch

The church

Lenschütz , Łężce in Polish , is a village and Sołectwo with 770 inhabitants in Poland . It belongs to the municipality of Reinschdorf in the powiat Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski , Opole Voivodeship in Upper Silesia .

history

The area around Lenschütz, like the rest of Silesia, was populated early on by Germanic tribes such as the Silingians and Lugians , and around 500 Slavic peoples such as the Slensans and Opolans also settled here . Like the rest of Silesia, Lenschütz became Polish in 1054. Lenschütz was first mentioned in a document on January 27, 1286. On this day, the Bishop of Wroclaw, Thomas II of Ratibor, certified that Duke Casimir II of Beuthen and Cosel deserved the malt tenure in Lenschütz for proven loyalty. Instead of tithing, the bishop reserved for himself and his successors only one quarter in Lenschütz. It belonged to the Duchy of Cosel , whose dukes voluntarily handed over their territory as a fiefdom to the Crown of Bohemia in 1289 , which came to the Habsburgs in 1526 . In the 18th century the village belonged to the Barons von Trach , before that the Counts of Gashin were the owners of Lenschütz. After the First Silesian War in 1742, like most of Silesia, it fell to Prussia . Georg Franz Freiherr von Trach, who inherited Lenschütz from his father in 1744, was district administrator in the Cosel district from 1750–1770 . In 1788 the manor Lenschütz came to the barons of Gruttschreiber. In 1803 the Counts of Pückler acquired Lenschütz. In the election for the future of Upper Silesia in 1921, the majority (478 votes) voted to remain with Germany, only 91 wanted to belong to Poland, one vote was declared invalid. The Lenschütz manor remained in the ownership of the various lines of the von Pückler family until 1929 . In that year it was bought by Norbert Wünsche, who had leased the Lenschütz estate since 1914. On March 16, 1945 Lenschütz was captured by the Red Army . In Lenschütz, however, there was no strong expulsion policy as in Lower Silesia , as this was part of the Upper Silesian mixed area. As a result of the Second World War, it fell to Poland in 1945. The German place name Lenschütz has been official since January 11, 2011.

Population development

year	1830	1855	1861	1929	1945	1946	1960	2003	2006
population	498	659	750	929	1,128	1,026	949	703	790

Attractions

Memorial to the victims of the world wars

• Parish Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary, neo-Gothic, built in 1852, destroyed in 1945 and rebuilt in 1947, is located in the churchyard
• Memorial to the German victims of the First and Second World Wars in the cemetery
• Several former manor houses

Web links

Commons : Lenschütz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Łężce. In: GDP. Urząd Gminy Reńska Wieś, accessed June 1, 2013 (Polish). 
2. ^ List of the Polish Ministry of the Interior