Prudnik

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Prudnik
Neustadt OS
Prudnik coat of arms
Prudnik Neustadt OS (Poland)
Prudnik Neustadt OS
Prudnik
Neustadt OS
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Prudnik
Gmina : Prudnik
Area : 20.48  km²
Geographic location : 50 ° 19 ′  N , 17 ° 36 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  N , 17 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 265 m npm
Residents : 21,368 (Dec. 31, 2016)
Postal code : 48-200
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OPR
Economy and Transport
Street : Głuchołazy - Kędzierzyn-Koźle  /
Nysa - Krnov
Rail route : Nysa – Kędzierzyn-Koźle
Next international airport : Wroclaw
Administration (as of 2018)
Mayor : Grzegorz Zawiślak
Address: Kościuszki 3
48-200 Prudnik
Website : www.prudnik.pl



Prudnik [ 'prudɲik ] ( German Neustadt OS , Czech Prudník , Schlonsakisch Prudńik ) is a city in the Polish Voivodeship of Opole . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with a little more than 27,157 inhabitants and the powiat Prudnicki .

geography

location

Neustadt and its neighboring towns on a map from 1905

The city is located in the region of Upper Silesia between the Leobschützer Lößhügelland ( Płaskowyż Głubczycki ) and the ostsudetischem Opawskie Mountains ( Opawskie Mountains ) to 266 m above sea level. NHN , about 60 kilometers south of Opole . The border with the Czech Republic runs five kilometers south . The city is surrounded on three sides by the Prudnik River, into which the Złoty Potok flows.

Districts

  • Górka
  • Jasionowe Wzgórze
  • Kolonia Karola Miarki
  • Lipno ( Lindenvorwerk )
  • Młyn Czyżyka ( Zeizig Mill )
  • Osiedle Karola Miarki
  • Osiedle Tysiąclecia
  • Osiedle Wyszyńskiego
  • Osiedle Zacisze
Prudnik seen from Kozia Góra

climate

According to the geographic location, Prudnik lies in the warm temperate middle latitudes with a continental heat balance and a semi-humid water balance. The average annual temperature is 8 ° C.

history

City foundation in the Middle Ages

Drawing of the castle, 18th century Friedrich Bernhard Werner
Seal mark from the end of the 14th century

The Prudnik area originally belonged to Northern Moravia , which was settled in the course of the expansion of the country into the Silesian-Moravian border forest. For this purpose, Colonel Marshal Wok von Rosenberg, who came from the Bohemian dynasty of the Witigonen, built the Wogendrossel castle at the foot of the Bischofskoppe as a base around the middle of the 13th century . Around 1279, his son Heinrich I von Rosenberg built the new town, which was first mentioned in a document in 1302 and is located in a loop of the Prudnik river, which was also called Prudnik after the river . It was laid out according to plan on a grid-shaped floor plan and had town charter from the start. The parish church belonging to the Olomouc bishopric is documented for the year 1321 and became the seat of an Archipresbyterate . The city's economic development was decisively promoted by its location on the important trade route from Neisse to Jägerndorf .

1337 King of Bohemia separated John of Luxembourg the precincts of New Town of Moravia and sold it for 2,000 marks to Duke Bolko II. Of Opole and Falkenberg, who already in 1327 paid homage to King John and his territories as a fief to the crown of Bohemia had passed. Subsequently, some of the Dukes of Opole used the title "Herr von Klein Glogau und Prudnik".

Prudnik in the early modern period

City view in the Scenographia Urbium Silesiæ
City map from 1890
City model in 1626

Neustadt / Prudnik remained connected with Opole until the death of the Opole Duke Johann II in 1532, with whom the Opole line of the Silesian Piasts was extinguished, and then fell back to the Crown of Bohemia, which had been owned by the Habsburgs since 1526 . As an immediate city , Neustadt now belonged to the Hereditary Principality of Opole-Ratibor , with which it shared its further political affiliation and history.

Together with the hereditary principality, Neustadt was pledged from 1532 to 1543 to the Jägerndorfer Duke Georg von Brandenburg-Ansbach and then to his son Georg Friedrich I until 1551 . During their reign, the Reformation spread in Neustadt and the surrounding area . In 1554 the parish church was handed over to the Protestants, two years later the city was granted patronage rights . Like the Hereditary Principality, Neustadt was pledged to the Hungarian Queen Isabella between 1552 and 1557 . In 1558 the pledge of Neustadt was sold by the Bohemian sovereign to Conrad Saurma , from whom it acquired the town in 1562, initially as a pledge and hereditary for 60,000 thalers in 1597, which the town bailiff had already bought in 1570. The surrounding villages of Schnellewalde, Dittmannsdorf, Riegersdorf , Siebenhuben, Leuber, Dittersdorf, Jassen, Wildgrund , Kotzem and Neu Kotzem as well as Zeiselwitz and Schweinsdorf from 1700 belonged to the territory of the Neustadt rulership at that time, which had sovereign rights .

Neustadt was badly damaged during the Thirty Years War . In 1625 the plague raged . In 1629 the Neustadt area, which had previously belonged to the Diocese of Olomouc, was attached to the Diocese of Wroclaw and counter-Reformation measures were taken. The founding of the Capuchin monastery in 1654 also served this purpose . In 1708, an imperial decree gave Neustadt the designation Royal Neustadt . In 1766 the Brothers of Mercy established a branch in Neustadt, and in 1852 the Franciscan monastery was built.

Under Prussian rule

German military parade in Neustadt
View from 1808
German soldiers on the ring in Neustadt
Old synagogue

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Neustadt, like almost all of Silesia, fell to Prussia . During the Second Silesian War there was fighting between Prussians and Austrians in Neustadt in 1745. In 1779 the city was set on fire by the Austrian General Wallis . In 1797 Neustadt received a garrison. In the course of secularization , the Capuchin monastery was dissolved in 1810. In 1815 Neustadt became the seat of the district of Neustadt OS , which, in addition to Neustadt, also included the cities of Zülz and Oberglogau .

In addition to agriculture, the weaving mill, which has been in operation since the Middle Ages, and the imperial privilege for the yarn trade, which had existed since 1638, followed by the imperial privilege of founding a linen factory in 1727, were of economic importance. After the transition to Prussia, the production of cloth and woven goods was subsidized by the state. The Fränkel factory , built in 1855 , had exemplary welfare institutions. The higher education institute founded in 1847 was expanded into a grammar school in 1869. In the 19th century, the city walls and ramparts, as well as the castle, were torn down, except for small remains, in order to gain more land for housing. In 1876 Neustadt was connected to the railway network with the Neisse – Cosel rail link, and in 1883 a sugar factory was built.

At the beginning of the 20th century Neustadt had one Protestant and four Catholic churches, a synagogue , a grammar school, a monastery of the Barmherzigen Brüder and a hospital, a carpet weaving school for oriental carpets , a damask and linen factory (3000 workers), a leather and shoe factory, a brewery, a main customs office and was the seat of a local court . In 1908 Neustadt i. If. Schles. in Neustadt OS In the 1920s several settlements were built.

The townspeople did not take part in the referendum on the state belonging to Upper Silesia in the 1921 Treaty of Versailles , only the eastern part of the district was part of the Neustadt constituency, in which 85.68% of the electorate (32,722 votes) voted to remain in Germany . 11.72% of the electorate (4,476 people) voted for Poland. 2.6% of eligible voters did not take part in the vote or cast an invalid vote. During the subsequent division of Upper Silesia, the city remained with Germany.

The synagogue on Hindenburgstrasse was destroyed during the pogroms in November 1938.

1945 to the 2010s

At the end of the war in 1945 the city of Neustadt suffered severe damage. As a result of the Second World War , the city came under Polish administration in 1945 and was renamed Prudnik . The German population was largely expelled . Some of the newly settled residents were displaced from eastern Poland . The use of the German language and the Silesian dialect was forbidden until 1989 and was punished as an offense.

Demographics

Population development until 1945
year population Remarks
1534 114 including 25 Jews
1754 2905
1764 2722
1774 3048
1784 3326 without the garrison (staff and four Campania cuirassiers )
1803 3684
1816 3780
1825 4377 809 Protestants, 98 Jews
1831 4862
1840 6246 with the garrison (2nd squadron and staff of the 6th Hussar Regiment, 188 men), of which 671 were Protestants, 5429 Catholics, 146 Jews
1855 6909
1861 7953 thereof 813 Evangelicals, 6961 Catholics, 179 Jews; according to other sources 8464 inhabitants, of which 8105 civilians and 359 from the military
1867 9623 on December 3rd
1871 10,941 with the garrison (two squadrons of hussars No. 6), including 1,100 Protestants and 280 Jews; according to other information 10,939 inhabitants (on December 1), of which 1227 Protestants, 9548 Catholics, four other Christians, 160 Jews
1890 17,577 thereof 2,111 Protestants, 15,258 Catholics, 164 Jews
1905 20,187 with the garrison (a field artillery regiment No. 57), including 2,859 Evangelicals, 117 Jews
1910 18,856 on December 1st
1925 17.052 including 2603 Evangelicals, 14,245 Catholics, no other Christians, 110 Jews
1933 17,738 including 2704 Evangelicals, 14,807 Catholics, no other Christians, 101 Jews
1939 16,937 including 2380 Evangelicals, 14.291 Catholics, five other Christians, 31 Jews
Number of inhabitants since World War II
year Residents Remarks
1946 10,886
1956 14,900
1962 18,200
1980 22,402
1995 26,400
2000 23,800
2005 23,234
Bar chart of the population to date

politics

coat of arms

Prudnik City Flag

The first documented use of a coat of arms dates back to 1399. The coat of arms shows a red open city ​​gate on a blue background. These heraldic colors are also the city colors and can be found in the flag of the city of Prudnik. There is a watchtower on both sides of the gate . When the city paid homage to Emperor Rudolf II in 1607 , he allowed the coat of arms to be extended. This gave the previous coat of arms a silver helmet on which the previous coat of arms was once again. But now there was still a golden lion between the upper watchtowers. The appearance has been slightly modified over the centuries. The last change was in 1990.

Town twinning

City leaders

Until 1945

Heinrich Engel
  • 1809–1815: Emanuel Weidinger
  • 1815–1816: Karl Diebiutsch
  • 1816–1821: Gottfried Schultze
  • 1821–1833: Karl von Adlersfeld
  • 1833–1837: Julius Richter
  • 1837–1842: Josef Spillmann
  • 1842–1847: Eduard Kutzen
  • 1847–1849: Johann Memler
  • 1849–1852: Emanuel Bock
  • 1852–1862: Paul Bielau
  • 1863: Eduard Diebitsch
  • 1863–1876: Josef Kammler
  • 1876–1904: Heinrich Engel
  • 1904–1909: Heinrich Metzner
  • 1909–1920: Paul Lange
  • 1920–1932: Robert Rathmann
  • 1934–1945: Felix Scholz

Since 1945

Grzegorz Zawiślak
  • 1945: Antoni Błaszczyński
  • 1945–1946: Franciszek Sowiński
  • 1947– ?: Edward Nowak
  • 1973: Józef Zamojski
  • 1973-1975: Marian Stradel
  • 1975– ?: Alojzy Kanik
  • ? –1990: Tadeusz Balcerkowicz
  • 1990–1998: Jan Roszkowski
  • 1998-2006: Zenon Kowalczyk
  • 2006–2018: Franciszek Fejdych
  • since 2018: Grzegorz Zawiślak

Attractions

Castle tower
Monastery Church of St. Peter and Paul and Monastery of the Brothers of Mercy
Parish Church of St. Michael
town hall

Castle tower

The castle tower to the west of the ring originally belonged to the castle complex of Wogendrossel Castle, which was built by Wok von Rosenberg in 1264 and is no longer preserved. It was increased in the 15th century.

Brothers of Mercy Monastery

The Monastery of the Brothers of Mercy was built in the second half of the 18th century as a foundation of Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm von Röder and was secularized in 1810. In the convent building there is a chapel in the neo-baroque style.

The monastery church of St. Peter and Paul is a baroque hall building. The classicistic main altar with paintings of St. Peter and Paul as well as the pulpit with relief were created in the middle of the 19th century. The Way of the Cross was created in 1870 by the painter Joseph Fahnroth from Ziegenhals . Under the sacred building there are catacombs , which are divided into 16 sections. The graves of friars are also located here. The church is located on Piast Street (Polish: ulica Piastwoska ).

Parish Church of St. Michael

The later parish church of St. Michael , already mentioned as Marienkirche in 1321 , was rebuilt after a fire from 1612 to 1638. From 1730 to 1738 a new building was built in the late baroque style based on a design by the architect Johann Innozenz Töpper. The stone carving was done by Johann Georg Höhenstein, the wall paintings by Felix Anton Scheffler in 1735 . The frescoes in the sacristy, in the Weidinger chapel, in the choir and nave were created by the Frankenstein painter Josef Krachwitz from 1898–1900. The main altar with the statues of the four church fathers was created around 1740. The framed altar painting of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is a foundation of the Leubus abbot Konstantin Beyer. It was painted by Christian Philipp Bentum . The pulpit with its angel-studded lid and statue of St. Barbara was also made around 1740; the way of the cross was created by the Neiss painter Ferdinand Winter in the second half of the 19th century. The patronage stalls come from the 17th century. The painting Christ in Prison was donated by Probst Heinrich Frosius in 1651.

town hall

The town hall stands in the middle of the ring. It was built in 1782 in the baroque style. The building was enlarged between 1840 and 1842. In 1856 the town hall received the tower built in the classicism style . The adjacent buildings date from 1779.

Jewish Cemetery

The Jewish cemetery was established around 1860. Around 140 tombstones are still preserved in the cemetery today , including family tombs of the factory owners Fränkel and Pinkus. In the cemetery there is also a memorial for the murdered Jewish prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp , who perished in January 1945 during the evacuation of the camp.

Marian column

The Marian column with a square base with four standing figures of the archangels and bas-reliefs was donated in 1694.

Others

  • The city ​​fortifications mentioned in 1327 were expanded and strengthened in 1556 and 1764 and removed after 1858. The Niedertorturm and two fortification towers have been preserved.
  • The building complex , built in the Expressionist style, was built in 1928 as a teaching institution for girls and young farmers as well as poultry farmers. Today there is an agricultural school and the district office.
  • The Eichendorff monument is located on the Heinrichshöhe.
  • Nepomuk column from 1733 with two angel figures
  • Eagle fountain with a bowl carried by atlases on which there is a double-headed eagle
  • Kapellenberg with pilgrimage chapel from 1750

Sports

  • MKS Pogoń Prudnik Football Club
  • KS Pogoń Prudnik basketball club
  • Archery Club KS Obuwnik Prudnik
  • SPS Prudnik volleyball club
  • Karate club LKS Zarzewie Prudnik
  • LKJ Olimp Prudnik riding club
  • MKS Sparta Prudnik football club

Economy and Infrastructure

Zakłady Przemysłu Bawełnianego Frotex SA

Zakłady Przemysłu Bawełnianego Frotex SA , textile factory (largest local employer and largest towel producer in Poland). In the station Prudnik branches the passenger former disused Neustadt-Gogoliner railway from the railway line Katowice-Legnica from.

media

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

politic and economy

Max Pinkus

Art, literature and music

Science, technology and research

Eugen Fraenkel

Others

Other personalities associated with the city

Dietrich von Choltitz

local community

The urban and rural community of Prudnik has around 30,000 inhabitants on an area of ​​122.13 km².

traffic

The city is connected to the road network via the state roads 40 and 41 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Prudnik  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Prudnik  - travel guide

Individual evidence

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