Miechowa

Miechowa Omechau
Help on coat of arms	Miechowa Omechau
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Kluczbork
Gmina :	Byczyna
Geographic location :	51 ° 8 '  N , 18 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 8 '8 "  N , 18 ° 8' 46"  E
Height :	178-186 m npm
Residents :	250 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	46-220
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OKL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Miechowa ( German Omechau ) is a place of Gmina Byczyna in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland .

geography

Geographical location

Miechowa is located in the northwestern part of Upper Silesia in the Kreuzburger Land. The village of Miechowa is about ten kilometers northwest of Byczyna , about 25 kilometers northwest of the district town of Kluczbork and about 75 kilometers northeast of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Proschlitzer Bach (Polish Pratwa ) flows through the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring places of Miechowa are in the northwest Janówka ( Janowka ), in the northeast Kostów ( Kostau ), in the east Ciecierzyn ( Neudorf ) and in the southwest Komorzno ( Reinersdorf ).

history

Hyacinth Church

The village of Omechau was first mentioned in 1473. In 1743 the German place name Omechau is used for the first time. In 1783 the German and Polish place names Miechowa are used. The place name means Sackdorf .

Between 1624 and 1628 the village was owned by Baltazar von Frankenberg . In 1628 he had a scrap wood church built southwest of the town center. His name can be found in a bar. In 1743 the village was sold to Ferdinand von Prittwitz .

In 1818, Omechau Castle was built on behalf of Dorotheus von Prittwitz and Gaffron. In 1845 there was a castle, an Evangelical scrap wood church, an Evangelical school, a distillery and another 44 houses in the village. In the same year 379 people lived in Omechau, 26 of them Catholic. In 1861 there were 420 people in Omechau. In 1874 the Kostau district was founded, to which Omechau was incorporated. In 1882 the road to Neudorf was built. In 1890, Omechau was separated from the Kostau district and the new Omechau district was founded.

After the First World War , a border post with Poland was set up north of the village . This was operated until 1939. In 1933 there were 425 people in Omechau, and in 1939 there were 414 people. Until 1945 the village belonged to the Kreuzburg OS district

As a result of the Second World War, Omechau fell under Polish administration in 1945, like most of Silesia . The place was subsequently renamed Miechowa 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 ).

Attractions

• The Omechau Castle was built in 1818 for 8,000 dollars under the then landowner Dorotheus Prittwitz and Gaffron. In 1933 there was a major renovation of the building. The last resident of the estate until 1945 was Friedrich von Bülow , former head president of the border region of Posen-West Prussia . He died in the castle in 1936. After 1945 the castle was partially used as a residential building. The building has been decaying since 1960 and is now in ruins. The roof on the south side has already collapsed. The castle has been a listed building since 1964.
• To the south-west is the palace park, which has been a listed building since 1976.
• The Roman Catholic Hyacinth Church (Polish Kościół św. Jacka ) was built in 1628. The church has been a listed building since 1954.
• Wayside chapel

Personalities

• Friedrich von Bülow (1868–1936) - administrative lawyer, lived in Omechau Castle and died here

Web links

Commons : Miechowa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on January 20, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} History of the place (Polish) p. 37
3. ↑ Heinrich Adamy : The Silesian Place Names, Their Origin and Meaning - A Picture from Prehistory , Breslau, Priebatsch, 1889, p. 69
4. ^ Johann Georg Knie : Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, spots, cities and other places of the royal family. Preuss. Province of Silesia. Breslau 1845, p. 310.
5. ^ Territorial administrative district Kostau
6. ^ Heimatkreisverband - Kreis Kreuzburg OS ( Memento from June 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Territorial District Omechau
8. ^ Administrative history - Kreis Kreuzburg OS ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Omechau Castle (Polish)
10. ↑ ^{a b c} List of Monuments of the Opole Voivodeship p. 40 (Polish)