Repsch

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Repsch
Rzepcze
Repsch Rzepcze does not have a coat of arms
Repsch Rzepcze (Poland)
Repsch Rzepcze
Repsch
Rzepcze
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Prudnik
Gmina : Upper Logau
Geographic location : 50 ° 23 '  N , 17 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 22 '57 "  N , 17 ° 52' 9"  E
Residents :
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OPR
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Katowice



View of the Schrotholzkirche with gate
Schrotholzkirche and cemetery
Fallen memorial

Repsch (Polish: Rzepcze ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Repsch is located in the municipality of Oberglogau ( Głogówek ) in the powiat Prudnicki (Neustadt OS district) in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

Repsch is five kilometers north of the municipality of Oberglogau , 22 kilometers east of the district town of Prudnik (Neustadt OS) and 32 kilometers south of the voivodeship capital of Opole (Opole).

Repsch lies directly on an arm of the Hotzenplotz , which flows along the western edge of the village.

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Repsch are Kerpen ( Kierpień ) in the northwest , Nowy Dwór Prudnicki (Neuhof) in the northeast, the hamlet of Schekai ( Chudoba ) in the east, the town of Oberglogau in the south and Leschnig ( Leśnik ) in the southwest .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1295 in the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis as "Ropzha". The Jakobskirche is mentioned for the first time in 1447. In 1865 the place had six farmers, three half-farmers, 23 gardeners and 13 cottagers. At that time, Repsch had a Catholic school with 71 students and was parish in Oberglogau.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 227 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 83 for Poland. Repsch remained with the German Empire . In 1933 there were 499 inhabitants. In 1939 the place had 505 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Neustadt OS

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Rzepcze and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship and since 1999 it has belonged to the powiat Prudnicki . On April 22, 2009 , German was introduced as the second official language in the municipality of Oberglogau , to which Repsch belongs. On December 1, 2009, the place was also given the official German place name Repsch .

Sights and monuments

  • The Catholic Church of St. James is a scrap wood church from 1751. It has a baroque pulpit from the 17th century with images of Christ, St. August and St. Jerome.
  • crossroads
  • Fallen memorial

societies

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Oscar Theodor Baron (1847–1927), lepidopterist, entomologist, ornithologist, explorer and engineer

Web links

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

Footnotes

  1. ^ Website of the municipality , accessed in June 2012
  2. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
  3. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Neustadt district in Upper Silesia (Polish Prudnik). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  5. ↑ List of monuments of the Opole Voivodeship , p. 107 (PDF; 515 kB).
  6. ↑ The art monuments of the administrative district of Opole, 1894