Libischau

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Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Kędzierzyn-Koźle (Kandrzin-Cosel)
Gmina :	Birawa
Geographic location :	50 ° 16 '  N , 18 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 15 '46 "  N , 18 ° 16' 0"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OK
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

Libischau (Polish Lubieszów ) is a town in Upper Silesia . It is located in the Birawa commune in the Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski powiat (Kandrzin-Cosel district) in the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Libischau is located about four kilometers southeast of the municipality of Birawa , eleven kilometers southeast of the district town of Kędzierzyn-Koźle ( Kandrzin-Cosel ) and 51 kilometers southeast of the voivodeship capital Opole .

The Oder flows west of the village .

history

Konrad II von Oels und Cosel acquired a piece of land between Birawa and Dziergowitz (Oderwalde) in order to settle settlers there under German law. The place was first mentioned in a document from Cosel from January 23, 1380. In this document Nikolaus von Libischau received the place with the property as a gift. The village was u. a. owned by the von Hohenlohe family. They acquired it in 1775 and kept it until it was confiscated by the Polish state in 1945.

The place was mentioned in 1783 in the book Beytrage describing Silesia as Libischau and was in the Tost district and had 170 inhabitants, ten farms, 16 gardeners and ten cottagers. In 1865 “Liebischau” consisted of a village community and a dominium. At that time the village had six farms, 20 gardener jobs and 31 cottager jobs. There was also a water mill. The school opened in 1886.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 172 eligible voters voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 143 for membership in Poland. Libischau remained with the German Empire after the division of Upper Silesia . On July 2, 1936, the place was renamed Liebenbach in the course of a wave of renaming during the Nazi era . Until 1945 the place was in the district of Cosel .

In 1945 the until then German place came under Polish administration and was then attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed Lubieszów . The district of Cosel was renamed Powiat Kozielski. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1975 the powiat Kozielski was dissolved. In 1999 the place came to the newly founded Powiat Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski . On April 23, 2007, German was introduced as the second official language in the Birawa community. On January 10, 2011, the place was also given the official German place name Libischau .

Attractions

• The Nepomuk Chapel, a wooden path chapel from the 18th century with a roof turret and a figure of St. John Nepomuk
• The modern Roman Catholic Church from 1987
• The open-air museum with agricultural implements
• Wayside cross from 1898 with figure of Mary
• Pond landscape
• Wayside shrine with figure of Mary
• Wayside crosses
• The fire station with an exhibited historic fire engine.
• The old school building

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows two trees with little leaves and three birds in the treetops.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the municipality
2. ↑ Poznajmy się nawzajem - Gmina Bierawa i Gmina Markvartovice
3. ↑ Plan odnowy miejscowosci Lubieszow na lata 2008-2015
4. ↑ Friedrich Albert Zimmermann: Additions to the Description of Silesia, Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
5. ↑ Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
6. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )