Pokrzywna (Głuchołazy)

Pokrzywna wild ground
	Pokrzywna wild ground
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Nysa
Gmina :	Głuchołazy
Geographic location :	50 ° 17 '  N , 17 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '14 "  N , 17 ° 27' 9"  E
Height :	330-480 m npm
Residents :	237 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	48-340
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	ONY
Economy and Transport
Rail route :	Krnov – Głuchołazy
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Pokrzywna (German Wildgrund , also Wilschgrund , 1945-1947 Jarantowice ) is a village in the rural community Głuchołazy (goat neck ) in Poland . It is located in the powiat Nyski ( Neisse district ) in the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Złoty Potok in Pokrzywna

Geographical location

The village of Pokrzywna is located in the southwest of the historical region of Upper Silesia within the Zuckmantel Mountains . The place is about eight kilometers southeast of the municipality seat Głuchołazy ( goat neck ), about 29 kilometers southeast of the district town Nysa and about 60 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole . The border with the Czech Republic runs southeast of the village .

The place is in the Sudety Wschodnie (Eastern Sudetes) within the Góry Opawskie (Zuckmanteler Bergland) . Pokrzywna is located on the Złoty Potok ( Goldbach ), a tributary of the Prudnik and the Bystry Potok ( Seiffenbach ). The village lies within the nature reserve Park Krajobrazowy Góry Opawskie . Pokrzywna station is on the Krnov – Głuchołazy railway line .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Pokrzywna are Moszczanka ( Langenbrück ) in the east and Jarnołtówek ( Arnolsdorf ) in the west .

history

West entrance to the village

Wildgrund was acquired in 1561 by the Neustadt citizens as a pledge .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Wildgrund and most of Silesia fell to Prussia . Between 1753 and 1754 a baroque church was built in the village.

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community Wildgrund belonged to the district of Neustadt OS in the administrative district of Opole from 1816 . In 1855 there were 343 people living in the village. In 1865 there was a state forestry in the village. In 1874 the district of Langenbrück was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Langenbrück and Wildgrund and the manor districts of Langenbrück and Wildgrund. In 1885 Wildgrund had 282 inhabitants.

In 1939 the village had 179 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Neustadt OS

In 1945 Wildgrund came under Polish administration and was initially renamed Jarantowice . In 1947 the place was renamed Pokrzywna . From 1950 it belonged to the Opole Voivodeship and from 1999 to the re-established Powiat Nyski .

Attractions

• House from the middle of the 19th century
• School building from the 1920s
• Pokrzywna station reception building

Web links

Commons : Pokrzywna (województwo opolskie)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on January 1, 2020
2. ^ History of the city of Neustadt OS
3. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1050.
4. ^ Territorial district of Langenbrück
5. ↑ AGoFF district Neustadt OS
6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Neustadt OS (Polish Prudnik). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Gmina Głuchołazy Monument Register (Polish)