Lichinia

Lichinia Lichynia
	Lichinia Lichynia
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Strzelce Opolskie
Gmina :	Leschnitz
Geographic location :	50 ° 25 ′  N , 18 ° 13 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  N , 18 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  E
Residents :	468 ( lesnica.pl )
Postal code :	47-150
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	EAST
Economy and Transport
Street :	A4 Opole - Katowice
Next international airport :	Katowice

Lichinia ( Polish Lichynia ) is a village in the bilingual Polish municipality of Leschnitz (Leśnica) in the powiat Strzelecki of the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Lichinia is located around 35 kilometers southeast of Opole and 3 kilometers east of Leschnitz in historic Upper Silesia . The Lenkau water (Łącka Woda) flows through the street village of Lichina at the eastern end of the village .

history

The name of this place is derived from the word "lichy" (bad), which is said to be associated with the poor quality of the soil. Lichinia was first mentioned as Lichan in 1223 . In 1455 the village was called Lichinya and in 1534 Lichina . Later the name Lichinia caught on. From 1936 to 1945 the village was called Lichtenforst .

In 1410 the Opole duke Bolko IV argued with his brother Bernard over grain from Lichinia, Salesche and Leschnitz . The farmers from Lichynia were in for forced labor Vorwerk committed by ZALESIE ŚLĄSKIE. The later history of Lichinia was closely linked to the neighboring Slawentzitz . A calculation of the goods of Slawentzitz from 1576 named the place Lichinia . The goods mentioned changed hands several times. In 1782 they passed into the hands of the Hohenlohe family , who lived there until 1945.

In 1783 Lichinia had 141 inhabitants. From 1816 to 1945 the place belonged to the district of Cosel . In 1817 this number rose to 296. Even then there was a school for the local children. In 1843 a watermill, lime kiln and brick factory were recorded. In 1861 there were 728 inhabitants in Lichinia, 692 in 1910 and 468 in 1996.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, which was accompanied by conditions similar to civil war in the area , a total of 262 people in the village and estate of Lichinia voted to stay with Germany and 171 for Poland. Like the entire Cosel district, Lichinia 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 Lichinia was changed to Lichtenforst .

In 1945 the place fell to Poland as Lichynia .

For centuries, Lichinia belonged to the parish in Salesche. The inhabitants of the village now have their own church dedicated to St. Joseph.

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

Web links

• Website about Lichinia

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dorf Lichinia 195 votes for Germany and 163 for Poland
   Gutsgebiet Lichinia 67 votes for Germany and 8 for Poland
   Cf. results of the referendum ; down. on October 17, 2009