Olszynka (Lubrza)

Olszynka ; Ellsnig
	Olszynka ; Ellsnig
	Olszynka ; Ellsnig
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Prudnik
Gmina :	Lubrza
Area :	8.12 km²
Geographic location :	50 ° 20 ' N , 17 ° 41' E Coordinates: 50 ° 20 '28 " N , 17 ° 41' 23" E
Height :	230-260 m npm
Residents :	267 (Dec. 31, 2013)
Postal code :	48-231
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPR
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice
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Olszynka ( German Ellsnig , also Ellschnig ) is a place in the Gmina Lubrza in the powiat Prudnicki of the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

The street village of Olszynka is located in the south of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is located about six kilometers east of the municipal seat of Lubrza , about ten kilometers east of the district town of Prudnik and about 46 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Olszynka lies in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) within the Płaskowyż Głubczycki (Leobschützer Loesshügelland) .

Neighboring places

Neighboring places of Olszynka are in the northwest Josefsgrund (Polish Józefów ), in the north Słoków ( Schlogwitz ) and in the south Laskowice ( Laßwitz ).

history

Church of Our Lady of the Angels

Village view with wayside cross

The place was first mentioned in 1379 as Olszna . In 1418 it was mentioned as Olschinka and in 1442 as Ellsnig .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Ellsnig and most of Silesia came to Prussia . In 1756 a Protestant school was founded in the village.

In 1811 the place received a new school building. After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community of Ellsnig belonged to the district of Neustadt OS in the administrative district of Opole from 1816 . In 1845 there was a castle, a Vorwerk, a Protestant school, a distillery, a brewery, a bar and 41 other houses in the village. In the same year, 279 people lived in Ellsnig, 53 of them Catholic. The Catholic residents were parish in Groß Pramsen, the Protestants in Neustadt. In 1855 286 people lived in Ellsnig. In 1865 there were 6 farmers, 16 gardeners and 13 cottagers as well as a Vorwerk. The Protestant school was attended by 130 students in the same year. In 1874 the district of Ellsnig was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Ellsnig and Josephsgrund and the Ellsnig manor district. The first head of office was the manor owner August Tripke. In 1885 Ellsnig had 293 inhabitants.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 318 people in Ellsnig voted to remain with Germany and 0 to join Poland. Like the entire district of Neustadt, Ellsnig remained with the German Empire. In 1933, 297 people lived in Ellsnig. On April 1, 1938, the district of Ellsnig was dissolved. The place was incorporated into the administrative district Schlangenhof . In 1939 Ellsnig had 260 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Neustadt OS

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Olszynka and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. The German population was expelled. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the powiat Prudnicki .

Attractions

The Ellsnig Castle (Polish Pałac Olszynka ) was built in the middle of the 18th century. The plastered brick building with two floors stands on a rectangular floor plan. At the main entrance there is a seven-axis facade and a stone veranda. The building has been a listed building since 1984.
The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Angels (Polish: Kościół Matki Bożej Anielskiej ) was built in 1899 and consecrated as a Protestant church in 1900. The church has been used by the Catholic community since 1945.
Stone wayside cross

Web links

Commons : Olszynka (Lubrza) - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Population Gmina Lubrza 2013 (Polish), accessed June 29, 2020
↑ Story of Olszynka (Polish)
↑ ^a ^b ^c 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. 121.
^ Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865, p. 1095
↑ ^a ^b Territorial district of Ellsnig / Schlangenhof
↑ AGoFF district Neustadt OS
↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. neustadt_os.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
^ History of Elsnig Castle (Polish)
^ List of monuments in the Opole Voivodeship
↑ History of the village church (Polish)

[1] Population Gmina Lubrza 2013 (Polish), accessed June 29, 2020

[Lubrza-2] Story of Olszynka (Polish)

[Knie-3] 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. 121.

[Triest-4] Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865, p. 1095

[Territorial-5] Territorial district of Ellsnig / Schlangenhof

[6] AGoFF district Neustadt OS

[7] See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

[Vwg-8] A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. neustadt_os.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[9] History of Elsnig Castle (Polish)

[10] List of monuments in the Opole Voivodeship

[11] History of the village church (Polish)