Olszany (Strzegom)

Olszany
Help on coat of arms	Olszany
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lower Silesia
Powiat :	Świdnica
Gmina :	Strzegom
Geographic location :	50 ° 55 '  N , 16 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '40 "  N , 16 ° 19' 50"  E
Residents :	931
Postal code :	58-150
Telephone code :	(+48) 74
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Entrance

Olszany (German Ölse, also Oelse ) is a village in the rural municipality of Strzegom in the Powiat Świdnicki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland .

location

Olszany is located 5 km south of Strzegom ( Striegau ) and 10 km northwest of the district town Świdnica ( Schweidnitz ).

history

In a document from 1239 the place is mentioned for the first time as Oolcim . The place name is derived from the Polish olcha, which means something like black alder . It is possible that a wooden church already existed at that time. In the course of the eastern colonization , German settlers came to Silesia. Little by little, the Polish Oolcim became the German Ölse .

With the Reformation the church became Protestant and on December 15, 1653 it was re-Catholicized. The majority Protestant population then adhered to the Friedenskirche Schweidnitz until 1742 in the place an own Protestant church was built. Parish was Ullersdorf, the colony villages Neu-Ullersdorf, Folgendorf and the newly founded Hoymsberg.

In the middle of the 17th century, the landlord of Ölse was Hans Friedrich von Nimptsch . He had a new castle built. On March 10, 1660 he received the baron diploma with the title of Oelse . After the first Silesian War , Ölse fell to Prussia and was incorporated into the Striegau district. In 1742 it was owned by Christoph Ferdinand Graf von Nimptsch and later Prince Heinrich of Prussia, who leased it to Obermat Bruske along with the associated estates in Ullersdorf and Teichau.

In 1785 Ölse counted 2 parish houses and 2 school houses, 2 water mills, 2 windmills, 40 farmers, 42 gardeners, 57 cottagers, including 3 Kretschmer, 2 bakers, 2 butchers, 1 Kramer, 3 blacksmiths, 3 shoemakers, 1 carpenter, 1 saddler, 1 Bräuer, 1 Büttner and 971 residents, most of them Protestant. In 1895 there were 4 places to live in the rural community (municipality, Erlenmühle, Folgendorf, Pappelmühle), 163 inhabited houses (including Erlenmühle 1, Folgendorf 5, Pappelmühle 1), and 1 schoolhouse. 1,103 people lived in the village (of which 9 Erlenmühle, 26 Folgendorf, 10 Pappelmühle), of which 528 were male and 575 female, 891 were Protestant and 208 were Catholic. Ölse formed its own district.

After the Striegau district was dissolved, Ölse was incorporated into the Schweidnitz district in 1932 . When it was taken over by Soviet troops and the Polish administration in 1945, Ölse was renamed Olszany . The German residents were expelled and replaced by Poles .

Attractions

• Catholic parish church of the Holy Trinity, from the first half of the 14th century, reconstruction in the 17th century
• Castle park and remains of the castle walls, built in the 17th century, remodeled in the 18th century, damaged in 1945, dismantled after 1945 except for the portal

gallery

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  Parish Church of the Holy Trinity

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  school

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  Polish monument

Web links

Commons : Olszany, Świdnica County  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Festschrift Kirchenkreis Striegau 1932 - GenWiki. Retrieved February 7, 2019 . 
2. ↑ New general German nobility-lexicon: in clubs with several historians . F. Voight, 1865 ( google.de [accessed February 7, 2019]).
3. ^ Friedrich Albert Zimmermann: Contributions to the description of Silesia: Fifth volume . bey Johann Ernst Tramp, 1785 ( google.de [accessed February 7, 2019]).
4. ↑ Ölse (Schweidnitz district) - GenWiki. Retrieved February 7, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Olszany. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .