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The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Königshuld (disambiguation) .

King Osowiec
	King Osowiec
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Opole
Gmina :	Turawa
Area :	14.60  km²
Geographic location :	50 ° 45 ′  N , 18 ° 2 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  N , 18 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  E
Residents :	1405 (March 31, 2013)
Postal code :	46-023
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPO
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 45 Wieluń - Racibórz
Rail route :	Opole – Kluczbork
Next international airport :	Katowice

Königshuld ( Polish Osowiec , 1945-2010 Osowiec Śląski ) is a place in Upper Silesia . The village is located in the municipality of Turawa in the Opolski powiat in the Polish Opole Voivodeship . Königshuld has been officially bilingual (Polish and German) since 2012.

geography

Geographical location

Königshuld is located in the historical region of Upper Silesia in the Opole region . The place is three kilometers northwest of the township of Turawa and twelve kilometers northeast of the district and voivodeship capital Opole .

The place is in the Nizina Śląska ( Silesian Plain ) within the Równina Opolska ( Opole Plain ). Königshuld lies on a branch of the Mała Panew (Eng. Malapane ), a right tributary of the Oder . Large forest areas extend north of the village. The state road Droga krajowa 45 forms a bypass road for the place. With the Osowiec Przystanek station in the east of the village, the village has a railway connection along the Opole – Kluczbork line .

Districts

The hamlet of Trzenschin to the east is part of Königshuld .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Königshuld are Lugnian (Polish Łubniany ) and Jellowa (Polish Jełowa ) in the north, Wengern (Polish Węgry ) in the south and Kollanowitz (Polish Kolanowice ) in the south-west .

history

Map of Königshuld 1787

The establishment of the place is connected with the construction of a steel goods factory. Permission to build the factory was granted on June 18, 1785. The settlement was founded between 1787 and 1789 in the course of the Frederician colonization. In 1789 the place had a total of 62 inhabitants within 15 families, mostly German. In 1798 the Protestant parish Königshuld was founded.

With the beginning of the expansion of the Upper Silesian coal mining area, the importance of the industrial town of Sausenberg gradually declined from the beginning of the 19th century. After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community OSOWIEC ŚLĄSKI from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In the 1820s, part of the Sausenberg population emigrated to Brazil due to the loss of jobs. Together with other settlers from the region, they founded new settlements around Ipanema , west of Sao Paulo . In 1845 there was a steel factory, an evangelical prayer house, an evangelical school, a brewery, a distillery and 21 houses in the village. In the same year 400 people lived in Königshuld, 166 of them Protestants and six Jewish. In 1874 the administrative district Königshuld was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Königshuld, Kollanowitz and Wengern. The first head of office was the smelter Nikisch in Königshuld.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 300 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 37 for Poland. Königshuld remained with the German Empire . In 1933 there were 1,688 inhabitants. In 1939 the place had 1,878 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .

In 1945 the previously German town came to Poland , was renamed Osowiec Śląski and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. Part of the German population was expelled . In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to Powiat Opolski . In 2009 the place name was changed to Osowiec . On March 8, 2012, the place was also given the official German place name Königshuld.

Attractions

• Crossroads at ul. Dworcowa
• Cemetery chapel

societies

• German Friendship Circle
• Football club LZS Stal Osowiec
• OSP Osowiec Volunteer Fire Brigade

Web links

Commons : Königshuld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the municipality of Turawa (Polish) (accessed on May 2, 2018)
2. ^ Walter Kuhn: Settlement history of Upper Silesia . Oberschlesischer Heimatverlag, Würzburg. 1954. pp. 214f.
3. ^ Walter Kuhn: Settlement history of Upper Silesia . Oberschlesischer Heimatverlag, Würzburg. 1954. p. 248
4. ^ Johann Georg Knie : Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, spots, cities and other places of the royal family. Preuss. Province of Silesia. Breslau 1845, p. 297.
5. ^ Territorial district of Königshuld
6. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Opole district (Polish Opole). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ↑ See Polish Ministry of Public Administration and Digitization  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( mac.gov.pl/ )