Niewiesze

Niewiesze Niewiesche
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Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
Powiat :	Gliwicki (Gleiwitz)
Gmina :	Rudziniec (Rudzinitz)
Geographic location :	50 ° 24 ′  N , 18 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 18 ° 29 ′ 25 ″  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 032
License plate :	SGL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice-Pyrzowice

Niewiesze (German Niewiesche ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Administratively it is located in the municipality of Rudziniec (Rudzinitz) in the powiat Gliwicki (district of Gliwice) in the Silesian Voivodeship .

geography

Niewiesze is eight kilometers northeast of the township seat Rudziniec (Rudzinitz), 19 kilometers northwest of the district town Gliwice (Gleiwitz) and 41 kilometers west of the voivodeship capital Katowice .

To the south is the Pławniowice Lake (Plawniowitz Lake).

history

The place was created in the 13th century at the latest. 1295–1305 the place was mentioned in a document as "Nevessa" in the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis ( Tithe Register of the Diocese of Breslau) .

The place was mentioned in 1783 in the book Entries describing Silesia as Niewische , belonged to a Herr von Strachwitz and was in the Tost district of the Principality of Opole . At that time he had 110 inhabitants, a Vorwerk , eleven farmers and 21 gardeners . In 1865 Niewiesche consisted of a manor and a village. At that time, the place had nine farm positions, 26 outdoor gardener positions and six cottager positions, as well as a mill. The church and school were in Ponischowitz .

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 52 people eligible to vote voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 132 for membership in Poland. Niewiesche stayed with the German Empire after the division of Upper Silesia . In 1936 the place was renamed Grünwiese as part of a wave of renaming during the Nazi era . Until 1945 the place was in the district of Tost-Gleiwitz .

In 1945 the previously German town came under Polish administration and was then attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed Niewiesze in Poland . 1950 the place came to the Voivodeship Katowice. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Gliwicki and the Silesian Voivodeship.

Buildings

• Nepomuk Chapel, path chapel from around 1800 with a wooden figure of St. John of Nepomuk
• Wayside crosses

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedrich Albert Zimmermann: Additions to the Description of Silesia , Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
2. ↑ Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
3. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia in 1921: Literature , table in digital form