Mokrau (Zülz)

Mokrau ; Mokra
	Mokrau ; Mokra
	Mokrau ; Mokra
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Prudnik
Gmina :	Zülz
Area :	4.35 km²
Geographic location :	50 ° 26 ' N , 17 ° 43' E Coordinates: 50 ° 25 '58 " N , 17 ° 43' 18" E
Height :	190 m npm
Residents :	147 (December 31, 2018)
Postal code :	48-220
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPR
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice
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Mokrau (Polish Mokra , also Mockrau , 1936-1945 Nassau OS ) is a village in the municipality of Zülz ( Biała ) in the Powiat Prudnicki (Neustadt OS district) in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

The street village of Mokrau is located in the south of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is located about six kilometers northeast of the Zülz municipality , about 16 kilometers northeast of the district town of Prudnik and about 30 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Mokrau lies in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) within the Kotlina Raciborska (Ratibor Basin) . The Zülzer water (Polish: Biała ) flows west of the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Mokrau are Ernestinenberg ( Górka Prudnicka ) in the west, Bresnitz ( Brzeźnica ) in the northwest , Lonschnik ( Łącznik ) in the north, Dambine ( Dębina ) in the east, Krobusch ( Krobusz ) in the south and Radstein ( Radostynia ) in the south-west .

history

Hedwig's Church

Fallen memorial

The place was first mentioned in 1384 as "Mockra". The place name Mockry has been handed down for the year 1574 .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Mockrau and most of Silesia came to Prussia .

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , from 1816 it belonged to the district of Neustadt OS in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 the place had a Vorwerk and another 27 houses. In the same year, 255 people lived in Mokrau, two of them Protestants. In 1855 277 people lived in Mokrau. In 1865 there were 14 gardeners and 12 cottagers as well as a farm in the village . The residents were schooled in Lonschnik. In 1874 the district of Radstein was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Ellguth, Ernestinenberg, Mokrau and Radstein and the manor districts of Mokrau domain and Radstein domain. In 1885 Mokrau had 281 inhabitants.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 241 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 33 for Poland. Mokrau remained with the German Empire . In 1933 394 people lived in the village. From 1933 onwards, the new National Socialist rulers carried out large-scale renaming of place names of Slavic origin. On June 15, 1936, the place was renamed Nassau OS . In 1939 Nassau OS had 392 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Neustadt OS

In 1945 the previously German town of Nassau came under Polish administration and was renamed Mokra and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship and since 1999 it has belonged to the powiat Prudnicki . On March 6, 2006 , German was introduced as the second official language in the municipality of Zülz , to which Mokrau belongs. On November 24, 2008, the place was also given the official German place name Mokrau .

Sights and monuments

The Roman Catholic Hedwig Church (Polish Kościół św. Jadwigi Śląskiej ) is a branch church of the parish in Lonschnik.
Memorial to the fallen of both world wars

Web links

Commons : Mokrau (Zülz) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Graport o stanie Gminy Biała za 2018 rok , accessed on May 11, 2020
^ History of Mokrau (Polish)
↑ ^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. 417. The residents of Lonschnik were parish.
^ Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865, p. 1103
^ Territorial district of Radstein
↑ AGoFF district Neustadt OS
↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. neustadt_os.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[1] Graport o stanie Gminy Biała za 2018 rok , accessed on May 11, 2020

[Gemeinde-2] History of Mokrau (Polish)

[Knie-3] 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. 417. The residents of Lonschnik were parish.

[Triest-4] Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865, p. 1103

[5] Territorial district of Radstein

[6] AGoFF district Neustadt OS

[7] See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

[Vwg-8] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. neustadt_os.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).