Maciejowice (Otmuchów)

Maciejowice Matzwitz
	Maciejowice Matzwitz
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Nysa
Gmina :	Otmuchów
Geographic location :	50 ° 30 '  N , 17 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '3 "  N , 17 ° 8' 10"  E
Height :	240-295 m npm
Residents :	572 (December 31, 2018)
Postal code :	48-385
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	ONY
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw Airport

Maciejowice (German Matzwitz , 1936–1945 Mühlrain , 1945–1947 Macewice ) is a village of the urban and rural municipality Otmuchów in the powiat Nyski in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland.

geography

Geographical location

The street village of Maciejowice is located in the southwest of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is about seven kilometers northwest of the municipality seat Otmuchów , about 17 kilometers northwest of the district town Nysa and about 72 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Maciejowice is located in the Przedgórze Sudeckie ( Sudeten Foothills ) within the Wzgórza Niemczańsko-Strzelińskie ( Nimptsch-Strehlen-Heights ). The Maciejowicki Potok ( Matzwitzer Water ) flows through the village . The place is on the disused railway line Otmuchów - Przeworno .

District

The hamlet Grodziszcze ( Gräditz ) to the southwest belongs to Maciejowice .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Maciejowice are in the northwest Janowa ( Johnsdorf ), in the southeast Starowice ( Starrwitz ), in the southeast the district of Nieradowice ( Nitterwitz ) belonging to Otmuchów and in the southwest Ligota Wielka ( Ellguth ).

history

Matzwitz Castle

St. Anne's Church

The place was first mentioned as Maceyovicz in 1285 . In the work Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from the years 1295-1305, the place is mentioned as Maczeiowitz . The place name Maczewicz has been handed down for the year 1371 .

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

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community of Matzwitz belonged to the district of Grottkau in the administrative district of Opole from 1816 . In 1845 there was a farm, a Catholic school, a brewery, a quarry and 57 other houses in the village. In the same year, 432 people lived in Matzwitz, all of them Catholic. Furthermore, the remains of a mammoth were discovered in the Matzwitz quarry in 1845, including a well-preserved molar. In 1855, 338 people lived in Matzwitz. In 1865 there were four farmers, three half-farmers, 22 gardeners , three field houses and ten empty houses. The one-class school was attended by 70 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 Matzwitz had 304 inhabitants.

In 1933 680 people lived in Matzwitz. On July 22, 1936, the place was renamed Mühlrain in the course of a wave of renaming during the Nazi era . In 1939 588 people lived in Mühlrain. Until the end of the war in 1945, the place belonged to the district of Grottkau .

As a result of the Second World War, Höhendorf fell under Polish administration in 1945, like most of Silesia . It was subsequently renamed Macewice and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. The German population was largely expelled . In 1947 the place name was changed to Maciejowice . In 1950 it was incorporated into the Opole Voivodeship. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Nyski . In 2007 there were 642 people living in the village.

Attractions

• The Matzwitz Castle was built in the late 18th century in baroque style. The two-storey building with a mansard roof now serves as a residential building. The castle was listed as a historical monument in 1965.
• The Roman Catholic Church of St. Anna (Polish Kościół św. Anny ) was built in 1882 in the neo-Gothic style.
• Nepomuk statue
• Entrance building of the former Maciejowice station
• Railway viaduct

societies

• LZS Maciejowice football club
• OPS Maciejowice Volunteer Fire Brigade

Web links

Commons : Maciejowice (Otmuchów)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Graport o stanie Gminy Otmuchów za 2018 rok , accessed on March 1, 2020
2. ^ H. Markgraf, Wilhelm Schulte: Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis (=  Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae . Volume XIV ). Breslau 1889 (Latin, dokumentyslaska.pl [accessed March 1, 2020]).
3. ↑ ^{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, p. 401.
4. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1218 ( preview in Google book search).
5. ^ Territorial district of Ellguth / Neuensee
6. ↑ Grottkau district. In: agoff.de, AGoFF , accessed on March 1, 2020.
7. ^ Administrative history - Grottkau district ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Characterystyka Gminy Otmuchów 2007 (Polish)
9. ↑ History and pictures of Matzwitz Castle (Polish)
10. ↑ Monument register of the Opole Voivodeship (Polish; PDF; 913 kB)
11. ↑ History and pictures of St. Anna Church (Polish)