Murow
Murow Murów |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Poland | |
Voivodeship : | Opole | |
Powiat : | Opolski | |
Gmina : | Murow | |
Geographic location : | 50 ° 52 ′ N , 17 ° 57 ′ E | |
Residents : | 1287 (December 31, 2017) | |
Postal code : | 46-030 | |
Telephone code : | (+48) 77 | |
License plate : | OPO | |
Economy and Transport | ||
Next international airport : | Katowice |
Murow ( Polish Murów , 1936-1945 Hermannsthal ) is a village in the Upper Silesian powiat Opolski in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the rural community of the same name with about 5450 inhabitants.
geography
Geographical location
Murow is about 32 kilometers north of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole . Murow is on the Opole – Namysłów railway line . The place is located in the middle of a large forest area that belongs to the Stobrawski Landscape Protection Park . The Budkowitzer Bach (Polish Budkowiczanka ), a left tributary of the Stober (Polish Stobrawa ), flows north of the town center .
Neighboring places
West of Murow is the place Tauenzinow (Polish Okoły ). In the east is Friedrichsthal (Polish: Zagwiździe ) and in the south the village of Grabczok .
history
Murow was first mentioned in 1304 in a document from the Czarnowanz monastery . Around 1392 the name of the place disappears - its inhabitants were probably carried away by an epidemic - and only reappears in 1736 in the map of the Duchy of Opole by IW Wieland in the form of the Murower Bridge . At that time, the Czarnowanz monastery built a glassworks here and the Hermannsthal colony was founded in 1789 for the workers who settled here.
Until the secularization of 1810, the Czarnowanzer glassworks was owned by the Czarnowanz monastery, after which it became state property and then passed into private ownership. In 1845 there were several glassworks, a royal forest ranger's office and 36 other houses in the village. In the same year 397 people lived in Murow, 48 of them Protestants and 25 Jewish. In 1874 the Murow district was founded. The first head of office was the glassworks owner P. Ebstein. In 1891 the former Czarnowanzer glassworks in Murow was the largest glass factory in Upper Silesia with 194 workers; operations ceased in 1995. The connection to the Opole – Namslau railway gave Murow an additional boost.
In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 386 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 89 for Poland. Murow stayed with the German Empire . In 1933, 1102 people lived in the village. On August 10, 1938, the place name was changed to Hermannsthal OS . In 1939 Hermannsthal OS had 1149 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .
In 1945 the previously German town of Hermannsthal OS came under Polish administration, was renamed Murów and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship and in 1999 to the re-established Powiat Opolski.
On March 31, 2009, German place names were introduced in the municipality of Murow.
Population development
The population of Murow:
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Attractions
- The Roman Catholic Dreifaltigkeitskirche was consecrated on September 16, 2001 by Archbishop Alfons Nossol . The parish Murow was founded in 1988 and includes the villages Murow and Tauenzinow and the hamlet of Czarna Woda .
- Reception building of Murow train station - built in 1888
local community
The rural community (gmina wiejska) Murow covers an area of 160 km² with around 5450 inhabitants. Twelve villages with school offices belong to it.
Parish partnership
- Vallendar , Rhineland-Palatinate
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Residents of Murow, December 31, 2017
- ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Wroclaw 1865
- ^ 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.
- ^ Territorial administrative district Murow / Hermannsthal OS
- ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Administrative history - Opole district ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Sources of population figures : 1784: [1] - 1817: [2] - 1830: [3] - 1855, 1861: [4] - 1910: [5] - 1933, 1939: [6] - 1946: [7]
- ↑ History of the Parish Murow (Polish)
- ↑ Murow train station (Polish)