Mierzin

Mierzinsin Mierzęcin
Help on coat of arms	Mierzinsin Mierzęcin
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Kędzierzyn-Koźle (Kandrzin-Cosel)
Gmina :	Groß Neukirch
Geographic location :	50 ° 11 '  N , 18 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 11 '9 "  N , 18 ° 4' 34"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OK
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice-Pyrzowice

Mierzenzin (Polish Mierzęcin ) is a village in Upper Silesia . It is located in the municipality of Groß Neukirch in the powiat Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski (Kandrzin-Cosel district) in the Opole Voivodeship .

history

The place was mentioned in 1783 in the book Additions to the Description of Silesia as Mierzenzin and was at that time a Vorwerk that belonged to Wronin . Wronin was owned by the Count von Sedlnitzky. In 1865 the place was mentioned as Miersentin .

After the partition of Upper Silesia, Mierzenzin remained with the German Empire . In 1939 the place was renamed Kolonie Friedrichsdorf as part of a wave of renaming during the Nazi era . Until 1945 the place was in the district of Cosel .

In 1945 the previously German town came under Polish administration and was then joined to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed the Polish Mierzęcin . The district of Cosel was renamed Powiat Kozielski. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1975 the powiat Kozielski was dissolved. In 1999 the place came to the newly founded Powiat Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski . On April 29, 2011, the place was also given the official German place name Mierzenzin .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedrich Albert Zimmermann: Additions to the Description of Silesia , Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
2. ↑ Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
3. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )