Markotów Duży

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Markotów Duży
Margsdorf
Markotów Duży Margsdorf does not have a coat of arms
Markotów Duży Margsdorf (Poland)
Markotów Duży Margsdorf
Markotów Duży
Margsdorf
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Kluczbork
Gmina : Wołczyn
Geographic location : 50 ° 59 '  N , 18 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 59 '2 "  N , 18 ° 5' 3"  E
Residents : 168 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 46-250
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OKL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Wroclaw



Markotów Duży ( German Margsdorf , also Alt Margsdorf ) is a place of Gmina Wołczyn in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland .

geography

Geographical location

Markotów Duży is located in the northwestern part of Upper Silesia in the Kreuzburger Land. The village of Markotów Duży is about six kilometers southwest of the municipality seat Wołczyn , about 11 kilometers west of the district town of Kluczbork and about 46 kilometers northeast of the voivodeship capital Opole .

The village is on the right bank of the Stober .

Districts

To Markotów Duży heard the settlement Cygany ( Zygan ).

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Markotów Duży are Stare Czaple ( Alt Tschapel ) in the east, Wierzchy ( Wierschy ) in the south-west and Gierałcice ( Jeroltschütz ) in the west .

history

The village is first mentioned in 1261 as Marquardi .

In 1845 the village consisted of a Protestant school and 51 houses. In the same year 410 people lived in Margsdorf, 59 of them Catholic. In 1874 the district of Margsdorf was founded.

In 1933 317 people lived in Margsdorf, in 1939 again 283 people. Until 1945 the village belonged to the Kreuzburg OS district

As a result of the Second World War, Margsdorf fell under Polish administration in 1945, like most of Silesia . The place was subsequently renamed Markotów Duży and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 it was incorporated into the Opole Voivodeship. In 1999 the place came to the newly founded Powiat Kluczborski ( Kreuzburg district ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on December 17, 2018
  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, p. 396.
  3. ↑ Territorial District Margsdorf
  4. ^ Administrative history - Kreis Kreuzburg OS ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )