Ligota Wielka (Otmuchów)

Ligota Wielka Ellguth
	Ligota Wielka Ellguth
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Nysa
Gmina :	Otmuchów
Geographic location :	50 ° 29 '  N , 17 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 29 '16 "  N , 17 ° 6' 38"  E
Height :	210-290 m npm
Residents :	331 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Postal code :	48-385
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	ONY
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw Airport

Ligota Wielka (German Ellguth ; also Königlich Ellguth ; Neuensee until 1945 ) is a village in the urban and rural community of Otmuchów in the powiat Nyski in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland.

geography

Geographical location

The street village Ligota Wielka is located in the southwest of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is about six kilometers northwest of the municipality seat Otmuchów , about 19 kilometers west of the district town Nysa and about 73 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Ligota Wielka is located in the Przedgórze Sudeckie ( Sudeten foothills ) within the Obniżenie Otmuchowskie ( Ottmachauer Depression ). The village is on the north bank of the Jezioro Otmuchowskie ( Ottmachauer reservoir ). The Otmuchów Jezioro station is located in the village and is on the Nysa – Kamieniec railway line .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Ligota Wielka are in the northwest Lubiatów ( Lobedau ), in the northeast Maciejowice ( Matzwitz ) and in the southeast Sarnowice ( Sarlowitz ).

history

Ellguth, which belonged to the episcopal castellanei Ottmachau, was first mentioned in 1261 under the Latin name "major Lghota". At that time, the Wroclaw Bishop Thomas I sold the Ellguther Scholtisei to a Peter Puscowitcz under German law. At the same time, an earlier document that has not been preserved was extended. Together with the Ottmachau castellan area, it came to the newly founded Principality of Neisse in 1290 , in which the Breslau bishops exercised both spiritual and secular power. The place name "Elgotha ​​magnum" is documented for the year 1310. In 1342 Ellguth came together with the Principality of Neisse as a fief to the Crown of Bohemia . The place name Elgotha ​​has been handed down for the year 1370 .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Ellguth and most of Silesia fell to Prussia .

With the secularization of the Prussian part of the Principality of Neisse in 1810, the rule of the Breslau bishops in this part was ended. After the reorganization of Silesia in 1813 came Ellguth to the district Grottkau , who is also the district Breslau in the Upper Silesian Region of Opole was incorporated. In 1845 there was a castle, a prayer chapel, a distillery, an inn, a Scholtisei and 107 other houses in the village. In the same year, 475 people lived in Ellguth, all of them Catholic. In 1855 666 people lived in Ellguth. In 1865 there was a knightly scholtisei, eleven farmers, seven half-farmers, 39 gardeners , 332 cottages and 16 residents. The two-class school was attended by 169 students in the same year. In 1874 the district of Ellguth was established, to which the rural communities Ellguth, Gräditz, Matzwitz and Sarlowitz as well as the manor districts Ellguth, Gräditz and Matzwitz belonged. In 1885 Laßwitz had 613 inhabitants.

In 1929 a Catholic church was built in Ellguth after the previously used castle chapel fell victim to the construction of the Ottmachau reservoir . In 1933, 535 people lived in Ellhuth. In 1939, 532 people lived in Neuensee. Until the end of the war in 1945, the place belonged to the district of Grottkau .

As a result of the Second World War , Neuensee fell to Poland in 1945, like almost all of Silesia, and was renamed Ligota Wielka. The German population was largely expelled . Some of the new residents were displaced from eastern Poland , which had fallen to the Soviet Union . In 1950 it was incorporated into the Opole Voivodeship. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Nyski . In 2006, 357 people lived in the village.

Attractions

• The Catholic Church of Our Lady of Sorrows was built in 1929. In 1982 she was raised to the parish church for the localities Ligota Wielka, Sarnowice ( Sarlowitz ; 1936–1945: Stranddorf ) and Lubiatów ( Lobedau ).
• The manor with Ellguth Castle was owned by the Drescher family from 1755 to 1928 . After that it housed an agricultural school. It was damaged in World War II and devastated after 1945.

Personalities

• Konstantin Gloger (1745-1814); Abbot of the Cistercian monasteries Heinrichau in the Principality of Münsterberg and Zirc in Hungary

literature

• Bernhard W. Scholz: The spiritual principality Neisse . 2011 Böhlau Verlag Cologne Weimar Vienna, ISBN 978-3-412-20628-4 , p. 349

Web links

• Historical recording
• Church historical record and geographical location

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Graport o stanie Gminy Otmuchów za 2018 rok , accessed on February 23, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Georg Knie : Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, towns, cities and other places of the royal family. Preuss. Province of Silesia. Breslau 1845, pp. 117-118.
3. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1215 ( preview in Google book search).
4. ^ Territorial district of Ellguth / Neuensee
5. ↑ Grottkau district. In: agoff.de, AGoFF , accessed on February 23, 2020.
6. ^ Administrative history - Grottkau district ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Characterystyka Gminy Otmuchów 2006 (Polish)
8. ↑ PARAFIA LIGOTA WIELKA.htm Description of the church (Polish)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ History (Polish) with photos ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.