Ortowitz
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Opole | ||
| Powiat : | Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski (Kandrzin-Cosel) | ||
| Gmina : | Birawa | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 17 ' N , 18 ° 19' E | ||
| Residents : | 273 (2010) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 77 | ||
| License plate : | OK | ||
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| Next international airport : | Katowice | ||
Ortowitz (Polish Ortowice ) is a village in Upper Silesia . It is located in the Birawa commune in the Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski powiat (Kandrzin-Cosel district) in the Opole Voivodeship .
geography
Ortowitz is about six kilometers east of the municipality of Birawa , twelve kilometers southeast of the district town of Kędzierzyn-Koźle ( Kandrzin-Cosel ) and 51 kilometers southeast of the voivodeship capital Opole .
The Birawka flows through the village .
The hamlets of Korzonek ( Korzonek colony , Korzonek ) and Stępnica ( Stampnitza ) belong to Ortowitz .
history
The place was first mentioned in documents in 1604. Another mention followed in 1679. In the following years, the place was owned by the Slawentzitz rule and then by the Donnersmarck and Flemming families and the Prince of Hohenlohe. Fresh fires have existed in Ortowitz and Korzonek since 1746.
The place was mentioned in 1783 in the book Beytrage to describe Silesia as Ortowi (t) z and was in the district of Tost. In 1865 Ortowitz consisted of a village community and a dominium. At that time the village had seven farms, seven gardeners and 36 cottagers. There was also a school with 96 children.
In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 69 eligible voters voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 147 for membership of Poland. At Gut Ortowitz, 16 people voted for Germany and 21 for Poland. Ortowitz stayed with the German Empire after the division of Upper Silesia . On May 16, 1936, the place was renamed Rehwalde in the course of a wave of renaming during the Nazi era . Until 1945 the place was in the district of Cosel .
In 1945 the until then German place came under Polish administration and was then attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed Ortowice in Poland . The district of Cosel was renamed Powiat Kozielski. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1975 the powiat Kozielski was dissolved. In 1999 the place came to the newly founded Powiat Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski . On April 23, 2007, German was introduced as the second official language in the Birawa community. On January 10, 2011, the place was also given the official German place name Ortowitz .
Attractions
- In 1995 the old school building was converted into a chapel
- A wayside chapel with a ridge and an adjacent wayside cross
- Memorial stone for the fallen and missing of the Second World War
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dziennik Urzędowy Województwa Opolskiego No. 4, 2011
- ^ Website of the municipality
- ↑ Friedrich Albert Zimmermann: Additions to the Description of Silesia, Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
- ↑ Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
- ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
Alt Cosel (Stare Koźle) | Birawa (Bierawa) | Brzezetz (Brzeźce) | Goschütz (Goszyce) | Jakobswalde (Kotlarnia) | Small Old Hammer (Stara Kuźnia) | Korzonek (Korzonek) | Libischau (Lubieszów) | Oderwalde (Dziergowice) | Ortowitz (Ortowice) | Sackenhoym (Grabówka) | Solarnia (Solarnia)