Ottok

Ottok ; Otoki
	Ottok ; Otoki
	Ottok ; Otoki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Prudnik
Gmina :	Zülz
Geographic location :	50 ° 26 ' N , 17 ° 39' E Coordinates: 50 ° 25 '33 " N , 17 ° 38' 44" E
Height :	220 m npm
Residents :	178 (December 31, 2018)
Postal code :	48-210
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPR
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice
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Ottok (Polish Otoki , 1936-1945 Auenwalde ) is a village in the municipality of Zülz ( Biała ) in the powiat Prudnicki (Neustadt OS district) in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

The street village of Ottok is located in the south of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is located about three kilometers northwest of the Zülz municipality , about twelve kilometers northeast of the district town of Prudnik and about 35 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Ottok lies in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) within the Kotlina Raciborska (Ratibor Basin) .

Districts

The hamlet Kolonia Otocka (Colony Ottok) belongs to Ottok .

Neighboring places

Neighboring villages of Ottok are Podlesie (Waldeck) and Pleśnica (Plieschnitz) in the west, the hamlet of Kolonia Otocka (Ottok colony) in the north-west, Grabine ( Grabina ) in the north, Ligocka (Colony of Ellguth) and Ernestinenberg ( Górka Prudnicka ) in the north-east Southeast Ellguth ( Ligota Bialska ), in the south Waschelwitz ( Wasiłowice ) and in the southwest Schmitsch ( Śmicz ).

history

church

Brick building

The place was founded in the second half of the 14th century and was first mentioned in 1383 as "Ottak" and "Eichak".

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Ottok and most of Silesia came to Prussia .

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community of Ottok belonged to the district of Neustadt OS in the administrative district of Opole from 1816 . In 1845 there were 51 houses in the village. In the same year, 309 people lived in Ottok, all of them Catholic. In 1855 547 lived in Ottok. In 1865 there were 12 farmers, 19 gardeners and 15 cottagers as well as a Catholic school. The Catholic school was attended by 60 students in the same year. The residents were parish in Ellguth. In 1874 the district of Zülz-Land was founded, which consisted of the rural communities of Altstadt, Grabine, Groß Pramsen, Ottok, Schönowitz and Waschelwitz. In 1885 Ottok had 395 inhabitants.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, Ottok was outside the voting area. In 1933 there were 294 inhabitants. On July 2, 1936, the place was renamed Auenwalde . In 1939 Auenwalde had 285 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 Otoki and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship and since 1999 it has belonged to the powiat Prudnicki . On March 6, 2006 , German was introduced as the second official language in the community of Zülz , which Ottok belongs to. On November 24, 2008, the place was also given the official German place name Ottok .

Sights and monuments

Chapel converted into a small church
Wayside chapel
Wayside crosses
Wayside shrines
Fallen memorial

Web links

Commons : Ottok - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Graport o stanie Gminy Biała za 2018 rok , accessed on June 1, 2020
^ History of Ottok (Polish)
^ 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. 467.
^ Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865, p. 1093
^ Territorial district of Zülz-Land
↑ AGoFF district Neustadt OS
↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
^ 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).

[1] Graport o stanie Gminy Biała za 2018 rok , accessed on June 1, 2020

[Gemeinde-2] History of Ottok (Polish)

[Knie-3] 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. 467.

[Triest-4] Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865, p. 1093

[5] Territorial district of Zülz-Land

[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] 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).