Podewils (Murow)

Podewils Kały
	Podewils Kały
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Opole
Gmina :	Murow
Geographic location :	50 ° 50 '  N , 18 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '58 "  N , 18 ° 4' 34"  E
Residents :	299 (December 31, 2017)
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPO

Podewils ( Polish : Kały ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Podewils is located in the municipality of Murow in the Powiat Opolski in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

Podewils is located about twelve kilometers southeast of the municipality in Murow and about 25 kilometers north of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole . The place is located in the middle of a large forest area that belongs to the Stobrawski Landscape Protection Park .

The Jełowa – Kluczbork railway with the Kały stop runs south of Podewils .

Neighboring places

To the north of Podewils lies the town of Neu Budkowitz ( Nowe Budkowice in Polish ). In the east lies the village of Laskowitz ( Laskowice in Poland ), which belongs to the municipality of Gross Lassowitz . South of Podewils is the village of Jellowa (Polish: Jełowa ), which belongs to the Lugnian municipality .

history

Aerial view of the area around the village, June 1938

The village was laid out in 1772 and probably borrows its name from Count Otto Christoph von Podewils . In 1783, 85 people lived in Podewils. In 1845 there were 31 houses in the village, which were inhabited by a total of 307 people.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 351 voters voted to remain with Germany and no one for Poland. Podewils remained with the German Empire . In 1933 there were 484 inhabitants. In 1939 the place had 480 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration, was renamed Kały and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 Kały became part of the Opole Voivodeship and in 1999 the re-established Powiat Opolski . In March 2009, the place was also given the official German place name Podewils .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Residents of Murow, December 31, 2017
2. ↑ Ernst Hubert von Michaelis (home district committee Schlawe, ed.): Parish Wusterwitz district Schlawe in Pomerania. Siegen 1988, Volume 19 of the Herder JG Library Siegerland eV writings, self-published, p. 235 below.
3. ↑ History of Podewils (Polish)
4. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )