Matzkirch

Matzkirch Maciowakrze
	Matzkirch Maciowakrze
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski (Kandrzin-Cosel)
Gmina :	Pawlowitzke
Area :	8.58  km²
Geographic location :	50 ° 11 '  N , 18 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 11 '15 "  N , 18 ° 1' 55"  E
Height :	289 m npm
Residents :	400
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OK
Economy and Transport
Street :	Laskowice - Racibórz
Next international airport :	Katowice

Matzkirch (Polish Maciowakrze ) is a village in the Polish Opole Voivodeship . It is located in the southern part of the powiat Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski near the border with the Czech Republic and belongs to the rural community Pawlowitzke .

Geography and character

The 858 hectare area is located in the southwestern part of Poland and in the west of Upper Silesia . For Matzkirch, the cultivation of agricultural products (grain 76.7%, potatoes 2%, sugar beet 10%, beet 10%) is the most important source of income.

Matzkirch borders the city of Baborów (Bauerwitz) in the south . To the west of Matzkirch is Dobrosławice (Ehrenhöhe). The border there runs from Chaussee Bauerwitz-Ehrenhöhe and from the level crossing. To the north are the villages of Dobieszów (Dobischau) and Radoszowy (Radoschau). Here we also find four small woods. A nameless watercourse runs along the border to Radoszowy. It ends as the right tributary of the "Potok Cisek". The eastern border is formed by the villages of Koza (Heinrichsdorf) and Szczyty (until 1936 Tscheidt, 1936–1945 Maxwaldau).

history

The church in Matzkirch

From numerous documents it can be concluded that the village of Matzkirch was a settlement of German settlers in Slavic surroundings. The first mentions of Matzkirch date back to 1223, as the Wroclaw Bishop Lorenz church in Matzkirch with the tithe of Gogolin invested has.

On March 19, 1264, the Wroclaw Bishop Tomas II allowed the merging of the two churches in Matzkirch and Stanice under the patronage of the monastery in Rauden . A mayor's office (Scholtisei) was mentioned for the first time in 1272, as evidenced by the documents about a Schulzen family.

On April 26, 1316, the village received the long-desired ducal right from Duke Wladislaus. 1408 issued Konrad von Cosel the "poor people of Matzkirch" work on its festivals and outworks against one year money from 3 ¹ / ₂  Mark. In 1587 Abbot Michael granted Kretschmar Balenga the license to run an inn, which existed until 1808.

On August 25, 1652, the newly built wooden church under the direction of Abbot Andreas Emanuel Pospeli von Rauden was consecrated to St. Florian von Lorch . The first mention of a forge, run by a Mr. Dzwiza, dates from 1728 . From 1752–1754 the first mill was built by Rauden monks. In 1773 today's baroque church was built.

On January 1, 1889, the Matzkirch volunteer fire brigade was founded. In April 1889 the Groß Neukirch - Bauerwitz railway line was opened and at the same time the first post office in Matzkirch in the moving house of the farmer Franz Waluga. In 1935 Joseph Piosczyk took over the post office.

In the Upper Silesian referendum on March 20, 1921, 538 people voted in Matzkirch to remain with the German Reich and 107 to join Poland - Matzkirch remained in Germany and the province of Upper Silesia of the Weimar Republic . On October 6, 1923, the village was connected to the electricity grid. The teachers Venantius Schirmeisen (since 1923), Gerhard Alscher (since 1933) and the teacher Gertrud Kothe (since 1934) have taught at the two-class school built in 1842. In January 1926 a sports club was founded and in the same year 1926 the Matzkirch estate was acquired by the state, which is sold to the "Landschaft" settlement company a year later.

In 1945 the place became part of Poland as Maciowakrze and on September 3, 1946 the first lessons in Polish took place by teachers Andrzej and Helena Kocman.

In 1970 the Maciowakrze volunteer fire brigade got a new fire station . The fire chief was Hubert Kubanek and his deputy Josef Kurka. On March 7, 1983, there was a major fire in Maciowakrze. In the afternoon the St. Florian Church started to burn.

In 1996, rail traffic (passenger transport) between Kędzierzyn-Koźle and Baborów was discontinued. There is only sporadic freight traffic .

On March 22, 2001, at the age of 91, Father Hyazinth Theodor Mende died, who was ordained a priest on March 16, 1940 in Fürstenzell near Passau and who had spent his old age in the Salvatorian Monastery in Steinfeld since 1996 .

On September 30, 2014, the place was also given the official German place name Matzkirch .

Web links

Commons : Matzkirch  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Website about Matzkirch