Radlau

Radlau Radłów
	Radlau Radłów
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Oleski
Gmina :	Radlau
Geographic location :	50 ° 56 '  N , 18 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '0 "  N , 18 ° 32' 0"  E
Height :	210-275 m npm
Residents :	594 ()
Postal code :	46-331
Telephone code :	(+48) 34
License plate :	OOL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

Radlau ( Polish Radłów ) is a village with around 600 inhabitants in the powiat Oleski of the Opole Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the rural community of the same name with a little more than 4,350 inhabitants, which has been officially bilingual (Polish and German) since 2006.

geography

Radlau is located in the center of the rural municipality in the northeast of the Opole Voivodeship , about 10 kilometers northeast of the district town of Olesno (Rosenberg OS) and 40 km northwest of Częstochowa ( Czestochowa ) on the Silesian plateau .

Radlau forms a Schulzenamt of the municipality to which the settlement Alt Karmunkau (Polish: Stare Karmonki) belongs.

history

About the history Radlaus is little handed down, the old Radlauer Hospital, a log cabin from 1660, in the Museum of Opole village in Bierkowice translocated was, but it is an important historical monument. The first sources from the 18th century show that there was a school in the small village of Radlau. Traditionally, Radlau is almost entirely inhabited by Catholics, with Radlau being a branch of the parish of St. Matthäus in the Sternalitz district. In 1928 the Sacred Heart Church (kościół Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa) was built in Radlau .

In 1742 Radlau was assigned to Prussia and in 1816 to the district of Rosenberg OS . From 1853 the area was owned by the Prussian royal family. The western part of the village represents the former Kolpnitz colony (82 inhabitants in 1861), which over time has merged into Radlau.

After the First World War, a referendum was held in Upper Silesia in 1921 on the continued state membership, which was accompanied by violent clashes. In Radlau, 147 votes (39.8%) were cast in favor of remaining in Germany, 222 (60.2%) in favor of joining Poland. The Rosenberg constituency, on the other hand, had voted by a majority for Germany, which is why Radlau remained in the Weimar Republic .

In the course of the renaming of the place, which was carried out by the National Socialists in Silesia from 1935, Radlaus's historical name was also replaced by Radelsdorf in 1936 . In 1945 the place became part of Poland as Radłów .

After the Second World War , the importance of Radlaus increased compared to today's villages in the municipality. Originally part of Gmina Sternalitz , in 1952 the municipal seat was moved to Radlau. In 1973, the Radlau community was formed from the Gromadas Radlau, Kostellitz and the villages of Wichrau and Neu Karmunkau . Today Radlau is the geographic center of the municipality and this is where the community institutions are located. In terms of population it is in third place and in contrast to the districts of Kostellitz , Biskupice / Bischdorf and Sternalitz, it does not have its own parish.

According to the last census in Poland from 2002, 28.05% of the community population belong to the German minority , and another 12.3% describe themselves as Silesians . The proportion of people of German origin is probably significantly higher, not least because 549 people (11.8%) did not provide any information about their nationality. In accordance with the Polish Minority Law of 2005, the municipality of Radlau became officially bilingual in 2006, and in 2007 a municipal decision to set up bilingual place name signs was approved by the Ministry of the Interior. On September 12, 2008 Radlau was the first municipality in Poland to set up bilingual place-name signs.

Population development

The population of Radlau according to the respective territorial status (more recent numbers refer to the entire rural municipality):

year	Residents
1844	452
1855	428
1861	432
1905	537
1910	561
1925	546
1933	666
1995	4,743
2000	4,661
2005	4,595

local community

The rural community (gmina wiejska) Radlau has an area of ​​116.73 km² and is divided into eight further villages with Schulzenamt. The coat of arms of the municipality shows a silver plow in green and was introduced in 2001

→ Main article : Municipality of Radlau

education

The municipal library, a village community center (Ośrodek Kultury), a kindergarten and a middle school (gimnazjum) are located in Radlau .

Web links

• Community website (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ mapa.szukacz.pl (Polish, accessed October 5, 2012)
2. ↑ See page no longer available , search in web archives: powiatoleski.pl ; down. on September 12, 2008
3. ↑ See powiatoleski.pl ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ See results of the referendum ; down. on October 11, 2009
5. ↑ Cf. isip.sejm.gov.pl  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; down. on September 12, 2008  
6. ↑ See Polish Main Statistical Office (GUS) ( Memento from December 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Polish Ministry of the Interior Dz.U. 2006nr 17 poz. 141 (Polish)
8. ↑ See n-tv.de ; down. on September 12, 2008 /
9. ↑ Sources of population figures :

   1844: [1] - 1855, 1861: [2] - 1905: Places Kreis Rosenberg ( Memento of October 30, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) - 1910: [3] - 1925, 1933: Archived copy ( Memento of May 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) - 1995, 2000, 2005: [4]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.