Poppelau

Poppelau Popielów
	Poppelau Popielów
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Opole
Gmina :	Poppelau
Geographic location :	50 ° 50 ′  N , 17 ° 45 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  N , 17 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	138 m npm
Residents :	2008 (December 29, 2017)
Postal code :	46-090
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPO
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 457 Pisarzowice - Groß Döbern
	Ext. 458 Poppelau– Obórki
Rail route :	Opole-Jelcz-Laskowice
Next international airport :	Wroclaw
administration
Website :	www.popielow.pl

Poppelau ( Polish Popielów , German also Alt Poppelau ) is a village and capital of the rural municipality of the same name in the Opole Voivodeship (Oppeln) in the Powiat Opolski in Poland .

geography

Geographical location

Poppelau is located in the west of the historical region of Upper Silesia on the border with Lower Silesia . The place is approx. 23 km northwest of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole .

Poppelau is on the Opole – Jelcz-Laskowice railway line . The two voivodship roads Droga wojewódzka 457 and Droga wojewódzka 458 run through the village . The Brinnitze , a tributary of the Budkowitz stream, flows south of the village .

Districts

To Poppelau belong Försterei Heidchen ( Leśniczówka Kabachy ) and the hamlets Am Walde ( Kabachy ), Lindenwäldchen ( Lipie Laski ) and Wielopole (1936–1945 Großfelde ).

Neighboring places

To the northeast of Poppelau is the village of Sacken (Polish: Lubienia ). In the east lie Neu Schalkowitz (Polish Nowe Siołkowice ), in the southeast Alt Schalkowitz (Polish Stare Siołkowice ), in the southwest Klink (Polish Popielowska Kolonia ) and in the west Rybna (German Riebnig ).

history

Church in Poppelau - illustration from the 18th century

Bilingual welcome board in Poppelau

Poppelau was first mentioned in 1286. In 1343 the place was mentioned as Popelow , in 1532 as Poppelaw . There are several versions of the meaning of the place name. Adamy derives the name from the nature of the area and translates the place name with Aschendorf . In other works, it is mentioned that the name is derived from the former owner Popiel .

In 1742 Poppelau and most of Silesia fell to Prussia .

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural municipality belonged Poppelau from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a Catholic branch church, a Catholic school, a royal forest warden, a royal forest ranger and 238 other houses in the village. In the same year 1929 people lived in Poppelau, 71 of them Protestant and 31 Jewish. In 1874 the district of Alt Poppelau was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Alt Poppelau, Poppelau Kolonie and Sacken and the manor district of Poppelau. The first head of office was Lieutenant von Schmid in Alt Schalkowitz.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 1,548 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 517 for Poland. Alt Poppelau remained with the German Empire . In 1933 there were 2863 inhabitants. In 1939 the place had 2946 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .

In 1945 the previously German town became part of Poland and has been officially called Popielów since then and was attached to the Silesian Voivodeship. After the war, only a relatively small part of the local population was displaced, which means that a local population has survived in the community to this day. In 1945 the place was assigned to the provisional administrative district I (Śląsk Opolski, Opole Silesia). In 1946 it became what was then the Silesian Voivodeship. Since its division in 1950, it has belonged to the Opole Voivodeship . At the district level, the place came in 1999 to the re-established Powiat Opolski . On September 30, 2014, the place was also given the official German place name Poppelau .

Attractions

Schrotholzkirche Andreaskirche from 1654

• The Roman Catholic St. Andrew's Church is a scrap wood church. It was built in 1654 and has a baroque interior . In 1887 the church was moved from its original location to the village cemetery. The church has been a listed building since 1954.
• The Roman Catholic Church of Mary Queen of Angels (Polish Kościół Najświętszej Maryi Panny Królowej Aniołów ) is the parish church of the parish of the same name in Poppelau. In 1883 an independent parish was founded for Poppelau. Due to the sharp increase in population in Poppelau in the 19th century, there was no longer enough space in the Schrotholzkirche for the faithful. Instead of the scrap wood church, a stone new church was built between 1887 and 1889. The scrap wood church was moved to the cemetery. The neo-Gothic church building has a rectangular nave, a choir closed on three sides and a bell tower on the southeast side. Most of the interior is from the scrap wood church. The baroque side altars date from the 17th and 18th centuries. The main altar and the pulpit were built in the neo-Gothic style.
• Memorial to the fallen of the two world wars at the Church of Mary Queen of Angels
• Wooden statue of St. Nepomuk

societies

• German Friendship Circle Poppelau
• OSP Popielów Volunteer Fire Brigade

Web links

Commons : Poppelau  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of Poppelau (Polish), December 29, 2017, accessed on August 10, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} History of the Poppelau Parish Church (Polish)
3. ↑ ^{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. 505.
4. ^ Heinrich Adamy : The Silesian place names, their origin and meaning - A picture from prehistory , Breslau, Priebatsch, 1889, p. 72
5. ^ Bibliotekarz Opolski - History of Poppelau (Polish)
6. ^ Territorial district of Alt Poppelau
7. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento from January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ 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). 
9. ↑ Municipal register ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ List of Monuments of the Opole Voivodeship p. 99 (Polish)
11. ↑ DFK Poppelau