Sękowice (Nysa)

Sękowice Sengwitz
	Sękowice Sengwitz
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Nysa
Gmina :	Nysa
Geographic location :	50 ° 31 '  N , 17 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '53 "  N , 17 ° 18' 16"  E
Height :	200-220 m npm
Residents :	119 (December 31, 2018)
Postal code :	48-300
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	ONY
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Chapel / church in Sękowice

Sękowice (German Sengwitz ) is a village in the rural municipality of Nysa ( Neisse ) in Poland . It is located in the powiat Nyski (Neisse district) in the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

The street village Sękowice is located in the southwest of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is about eight kilometers northeast of the municipality and the district town of Nysa and about 51 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Sękowice lies in the Nizina Śląska ( Silesian Plain ) within the Równina Wrocławska ( Wroclaw Plain ). The village lies on the Cielnica ( Tellnitz ), a left tributary of the Glatzer Neisse . The Nysa – Brzeg railway runs east of the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Sękowice are Regulice ( Rieglitz ) in the east, Jędrzychów ( Heidersdorf ) in the south and Radzikowice ( Stephansdorf ) in the west .

history

In the work Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from the years 1295-1305, the place is first mentioned as Zenchovitz . In 1360 it was mentioned as Senkewicz and in 1371 as Zenkowicz .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Sengwitz and most of Silesia fell to Prussia .

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Seng joke from 1816 to district Neisse in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there were 30 more houses in the village. In the same year 196 people lived in Sengwitz, all of them Catholic. In 1855 there were 251 people living in the village. In 1865 there were 11 farms, 7 gardeners and 14 cottagers as well as a field brickwork and an inn in the village. In 1874 the district of Bösdorf was founded, which consisted of the rural communities of Beigwitz, Bösdorf, Rieglitz, Sengwitz and Struwitz and the manor district of Sengwitz. In 1885 Sengwitz had 246 inhabitants.

188 people lived in Sengwitz in 1933 and 175 people in 1939. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Neisse .

In 1945 the place came under Polish administration and was renamed Sękowice , the population was expelled. 1950 Sękowice came to the Opole Voivodeship. With the conclusion of the Two-Plus-Four Treaty in 1991, the administration of the place under international law ended and it became part of Poland. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Nyski .

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Polish. Kościół fil. Św. Wniebowzięcia NMP ) was built in the mid-19th century. The church building has been a listed building since 2011.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Liczba mieszkańców w Gminie Nysa (Polish), Dec. 31, 2018, accessed on Dec. 2, 2019
2. ↑ Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis
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. 632.
4. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 983.
5. ^ Territorial district of Bösdorf
6. ↑ AGoFF circle Neisse
7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Neisse district (Polish Nysa). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ↑ Monument register of the Opole Voivodeship (Polish; PDF; 913 kB)