Półwieś
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Opole | ||
| Gmina : | Opole | ||
| Area : | 5.6 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 41 ' N , 17 ° 53' E | ||
| Height : | 150 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 3200 (2017) | ||
| Postal code : | 46-060 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 77 | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | DK 45 Wieluń - Racibórz | ||
| DK 46 Kłodzko - Szczekociny | |||
| Next international airport : | Wroclaw Airport | ||
Półwieś (German Halbendorf ) is a district of the independent city of Opole in the Opole Voivodeship . The main cemetery of the city of Opole and the largest shopping center in the city of Centrum Handlowe Karolinka are located in Półwieś .
geography
Geographical location
The street village of Półwieś is located in the historical region of Upper Silesia in the Opole region . The place is about three kilometers northwest of downtown Opole on the left bank of the Oder .
Półwieś lies in the Nizina Śląska ( Silesian Plain ) within the Równina Opolska ( Opole Plain ). The district is crossed in north-south direction by the state road Droga krajowa 45 . The state road Droga krajowa 46 runs in the north and the provincial road Droga wojewódzka 414 in the south .
Neighboring places
Półwieś borders in the north on Slawitz , in the south on Zaodrze (Odervorstadt) and Szczepanowice (Sczepanowitz) and in the east on Bierkowice (Birkowitz) .
history
The place was first mentioned in 1295 as dimidia villa . Other traditional names of places come from the years 1404 as Media villa and 1471 as Halbendorff .
After the First Silesian War in 1742, Halbendorf and most of Silesia fell to Prussia .
After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Halbendorf from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a Catholic school, a distillery, two outbuildings and 63 houses in the village. In the same year, 618 people lived in Halbendorf, 20 of them Protestants. In the middle of the 19th century, a neo-renaissance castle was built north of the village. It was a two-story building with a flat roof and a tower. From 1863 this belonged to the Eynern family . In 1855 there were 593 people living in Halbendorf. In 1865 there were four farmers, 16 half-farmers, 20 gardeners, six local residents and 61 residents in the village. The two-class Catholic school was attended by 172 students in the same year. In 1874 the district of Halbendorf was founded, which consisted of the rural communities of Birkowitz, Halbendorf, Leopoldsberg, Slawitz and Zelasno and the manor districts of Birkowitz, Halbendorf, Oberschale and Slawitz. The first head of office was the manor owner von Eynern in Halbendorf. In 1885 Halbendorf had 672 inhabitants.
In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 296 voters voted to remain with Germany and 214 for Poland, in the Halbendorf manor district 119 people voted for Germany and two for Poland. Halbendorf remained with the German Empire . In 1925 there were 1194 inhabitants. On April 1, 1936, Halbendorf was incorporated into the city of Opole from the district of Opole . From 1936 to 1937 St. Michael's Church was built south of the village. In 1945 the castle was destroyed and later demolished. Today there are only individual fragments of the castle on the site. The family's tombstones can still be found to the east of the site. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole.
In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration, was renamed Półwieś and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship .
In 2008 the largest shopping center in Opole, Centrum Handlowe Karolinka , was opened west of the village .
Attractions
- The Roman Catholic St. Michael's Church (Polish Kościół św. Michała ) was built between 1936 and 1937. The solemn consecration took place on September 26, 1937 in the presence of the Archbishop of Breslau, Adolf Bertram . The building has been a listed building since 2011.
- The main cemetery of Opole is located southwest of the village and was designed by Gustav Allinger and opened in 1931. The facility was placed under monument protection in 1987.
- Bell chapel on the Nizinna
- Old village cemetery with preserved German graves
- Path chapel with statue of Jesus
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brochure City Districts Opole p. 22 (Polish)
- ↑ City website: Półwieś
- ↑ a b 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. 200.
- ↑ a b Castle in Halbendorf
- ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
- ^ Territorial district of Halbendorf / Birkental OS
- ^ Opole district. In: agoff.de, AGoFF , accessed on April 1, 2020.
- ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Opole (Polish: Opole). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Centrum Handlowe Karolinka (Polish)
- ↑ History of St. Michaels Church (Polish)
- ↑ a b Monument register of the Opole Voivodeship (Polish; PDF; 913 kB)
- ^ History of Central Cemetery Opole (Polish)
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