Morów

Morów Mohrau
	Morów Mohrau
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Nysa
Gmina :	Nysa
Geographic location :	50 ° 25 '  N , 17 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 24 '59 "  N , 17 ° 17' 34"  E
Height :	220-240 m npm
Residents :	324 (December 31, 2018)
Postal code :	48-303
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	ONY
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Morów (German Mohrau ) is a village in the rural municipality of Nysa (Neisse) in Poland . It is located in the powiat Nyski (Neisse district) in the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

The village of Morów is located in the southwest of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is about nine kilometers southwest of the municipality and the district town of Nysa and about 64 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Morów lies in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) within the Płaskowyż Głubczycki (Leobschützer Loesshügelland) . Morów is located on the moor water (Polish Mora ). The village lies on the disused railway line of the former Neisser Kreisbahn .

Neighboring places

Neighboring places of Morów are Biała Nyska ( Bielau ) in the north, Przełęk ( Preiland ) in the east, Iława ( Eilau ) in the south, Koperniki ( Köppernig ) in the south-west and Siestrzechowice ( Grunau ) in the north-west .

history

Bell chapel

Village party

In the work Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from the years 1295-1305, the place is first mentioned as Morow . In 1367 it was mentioned as Morow .

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

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community Mohrau belonged to the district of Neisse in the administrative district of Opole from 1816 . In 1827 a Catholic school was established in the village. In 1845 there was a Catholic school and another 80 houses in the village. In the same year 582 people lived in Mohrau, one of them Protestant. In 1855 there were 412 people living in the village. In 1865 the place had 7 farms, 35 gardeners and 25 cottagers. The Catholic school was attended by 113 students in the same year. In 1874 the district of Bielau was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Bielau, Eilau, Mohrau, Preiland and Steinhübel and the manor districts of Bielau, Eilau, Mohrau, Preiland and Steinhübel. In 1885 Mohrau had 594 inhabitants.

In 1933 there were 527 people in Mohrau and 504 in 1939. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Neisse .

In 1945 the place came under Polish administration and was renamed Morów , the population was expelled. In 1950 Morów came to the Opole Voivodeship. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Nyski .

Attractions

• Three-story bell chapel
• Memorial to the fallen of the First World War
• Wayside cross
• Wayside chapel

societies

• Football club LZS Morów-Koperniki

Personalities

• Walter Gröger (1922–1945), sailor

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Liczba mieszkańców w Gminie Nysa (Polish), Dec. 31, 2018, accessed on Nov. 28, 2019
2. ↑ Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis
3. ↑ ^{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.
4. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 988.
5. ^ Territorial district of Bielau
6. ↑ AGoFF circle Neisse
7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Neisse district (Polish Nysa). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).