Molestowice

Molestowice Mullwitz
	Molestowice Mullwitz
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Opolski
Gmina :	Niemodlin
Area :	0.365  km²
Geographic location :	50 ° 41 ′  N , 17 ° 34 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 57 "  N , 17 ° 34 ′ 26"  E
Height :	150-170 m npm
Residents :	114 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	49-100
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPO
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Molestowice ( German Mullwitz ) is a village in the Gmina Niemodlin , in the Powiat Opolski , the Opole Voivodeship in southwest Poland .

geography

Geographical location

The street village Molestowice is about 7 kilometers northwest of the municipal seat Niemodlin (Falkenberg) and about 30 kilometers west of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole . Molestowice lies in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) within the Równina Niemodlińska (Falkenberg Plain) . The place is on the now disused railway line Szydłów – Lipowa Śląska .

West of Molestowice there is a basalt opencast mine on the Mullwitzberg (Molestowicka Góra) .

Neighboring places

Northwest of Molestowice is the village Gracze (dt. Graase ). To the northeast lie the two villages Magnuszowice (Groß Mangersdorf) and Magnuszowiczki (Klein Mangersdorf) , to the east Szydłowiec Śląski (Schedlau) , southwest Góra (Guhrau) and to the west Rutki (Rautke) .

history

The village was first mentioned in 1451 as Mullwitz . In 1543 it was mentioned as Molestowitz .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Mullwitz and most of Silesia fell to Prussia .

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community of Mullwitz belonged to the district of Falkenberg OS in the administrative district of Opole from 1817 . In 1845 there were 31 houses, a farm and an inn. In the same year 159 people lived in Mullwitz, 6 of them Catholic. In 1855 587 people lived in the village. In 1865 the village had 4 farmers, 13 gardeners and 2 cottagers. In the same year the village had 26 school-age students who attended the school in Schedlau. In 1874 the administrative district of Schedlau was founded, which consisted of the rural communities of Groditz, Guhrau, Heidersdorf, Mullwitz and Schedlau and the estate districts of Groditz, Guhrau, Heidersdorf, Mullwitz and Schedlau. In 1885 Mullwitz had 130 inhabitants. In 1888 Mullwitz received a connection to the Upper Silesian railway network on the Szydłów – Lipowa Śląska railway .

At the beginning of the 20th century, Molestowice had 213 inhabitants and about 30 houses, with an area of ​​around 363 hectares. In 1930 a one-class Protestant school was set up in Mullwitz. In 1933 there were 184 people in Mullwitz. In 1939 the village had 213 inhabitants. Until the end of the war in 1945, Mullwitz belonged to the district of Falkenberg OS

At the end of the Second World War , heavy fighting took place around Mullwitz in February 1945. This destroyed a large part of the village development. In 1945 the previously German town came under Polish administration, was renamed Molestowice and joined the Gmina Niemodlin. The remaining German population was expelled in June 1946. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . Passenger traffic on the railway line between Gracze and Szydłów ceased in 1996. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Opolski as part of Gmina Niemodlin .

Attractions

• Monument to Pope John Paul II

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on January 27, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} History of Mullwitz
3. ^ 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. 424.
4. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1137.
5. ^ Territorial district of Schedlau
6. ↑ District of Falkenberg OS
7. ↑ ^{a b} Heimatverein des Kreis Falkenberg O / S (ed.): Heimatbuch des Kreis Falkenberg in Oberschlesien. Scheinfeld 1971, pp. 214-215.
8. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Falkenberg (Polish Niemodlin). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).