Narok (Dąbrowa)
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Opole | ||
| Powiat : | Opole | ||
| Gmina : | Dambrau | ||
| Area : | 1.275 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 45 ' N , 17 ° 47' E | ||
| Height : | 150 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 765 (March 31, 2011) | ||
| Postal code : | 46-073 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 77 | ||
| License plate : | OPO | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Ext. 459 Opole - Skorogoszcz | ||
| Next international airport : | Wroclaw | ||
Narok ( Ger . Norok , 1936–1945 Wolfsgrund OS ) is a town in Upper Silesia . The village is located in the municipality of Dambrau ( Dąbrowa ) in the Powiat Opolski ( Opole District ) in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland.
geography
Geographical location
Narok is located in the west of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The Angerdorf is located about ten kilometers northeast of the municipality of Dambrau and fifteen kilometers northwest of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole ( Opole ). Narok lies in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) within the Równina Niemodlińska (Falkenberg Plain) .
Droga wojewódzka 459 provincial road runs through the village . To the north of the village lies the Oder . To the northwest of Narok lies the mouth of the Prószkowski Potok brook into the Oder.
Neighboring places
Neighboring places of Narok are in the west Niewodniki ( Niewodnik ) and in the southwest Skarbiszów ( Karbischau ). On the other side of the Oder is the hamlet of Katy ( Konty ), which belongs to the village of Chrosczütz .
history
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Narok was first mentioned in a document in 1234.
After the First Silesian War in 1742, Norok and most of Silesia fell to Prussia .
In 1804 a scrap wood church was built in the village. After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community Norok belonged from 1818 to the district of Falkenberg OS in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a castle, a Catholic church, a Catholic school, an outbuilding and 102 houses in the village. In the same year, 733 people lived in Norok, 60 of them Protestants and eleven Jewish. In 1855 there were 667 people living in the village. In 1858 the village and castle were sold to Frederik Wichelhaus. She had the manor house rebuilt in the Byzantine style. The park was planted with exotic trees. In 1865 the village had a Schulzen, 19 farmers, 33 gardeners and 25 cottagers. The two-class Catholic school in Norok was attended by 205 students in the same year. In 1874 the administrative district of Norok was founded, which consisted of the rural communities rural communities Karbischau, Niewodnik and Norok and the manor districts Karbischau, Niewodnik and Norok. In 1885 Norok had 642 inhabitants.
In 1933 1012 people lived in Norok. On June 10, 1936 the place name was changed to Wolfsgrund OS . In 1939, 1,100 people lived there. Until the end of the war in 1945 the place belonged to the district of Falkenberg OS
On January 22nd, the Red Army advanced to the opposite bank of the Oder. Some buildings in the village were destroyed during artillery fire. A short time later the Red Army entered the village. Then the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Norok and attached to Gmina Dąbrowa . In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Opolski .
Attractions
- The Norok Castle was built in 1858 by Frederik Wichelhaus, a banker from Elberfeld acquired. He had the castle rebuilt in the Byzantine style . At the castle, he had the two-hectare park redesigned and planted with exotic trees and shrubs. After 1945 apartments were set up in the castle. The building fell into disrepair due to the lack of renovations. The last residents left the castle in the mid-1990s. In 2007 the castle was acquired by a Polish investor and then renovated for 600,000 zlotys by 2016.
- The Roman Catholic Church of St. Florian was built in 1904. As early as 1804 a scrap wood church was built on the same site, which was consecrated on November 11 of the same year.
society
- Football club LZS Narok
- OSP Narok Volunteer Fire Brigade
- German Friendship Circle
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku ( XLSX file, Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on August 7, 2019
- ↑ a b c Norok Castle
- ↑ 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. 452.
- ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1160.
- ↑ Territorial District Norok / Wolfsgrund
- ↑ District of Falkenberg OS
- ↑ 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).
- ^ History of the Dambrau community
- ↑ DFK Narok
Chróścina (Chrosczinna) | Ciepielowice (Scheppelwitz) | Dąbrowa (Dambrau) | Karczów (Schönwitz) | Lipowa (Neuleipe) | Mechnice (Muchenitz) | Narok (Norok) | Niewodniki (Niewodnik) | Nowa Jamka (German Jamke) | Prądy (Brande) | Siedliska (Schedliske) | Skarbiszów (Karbischau) | Żelazna (Zelasno)