Schmitsch

Schmitsch Śmicz
	Schmitsch Śmicz
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Prudnik
Gmina :	Zülz
Area :	12.14  km²
Geographic location :	50 ° 26 '  N , 17 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 25 '37 "  N , 17 ° 36' 47"  E
Height :	230-250 m npm
Residents :	469 (December 31, 2018)
Postal code :	48-210
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPR
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

Schmitsch (also Schmietsch , Polish Śmicz , 1936-1945 Lößtal OS ) is a place in Upper Silesia . Schmitsch belongs to the municipality of Zülz ( Biała ) in the powiat Prudnicki in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

The street village Schmitsch is located in the south of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is located about five kilometers northwest of the Zülz municipality , about eleven kilometers north of the district town of Prudnik and about 36 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Mühlsdorf lies in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) within the Płaskowyż Głubczycki (Leobschützer Loesshügelland) .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Schmitsch are Ścinawa Mała (Steinau) in the west, Podlesie (Waldeck) and Pleśnica (Plieschnitz) in the north, Grabine ( Grabina ) and Ottok ( Otoki ) in the northeast, Waschelwitz ( Wasiłowice ) and Zülz in the east and Mühlsdorf ( Miłowice ) in the south ) and Kohlsdorf ( Kolnowice ).

history

Parish Church of St. Catherine

chapel

Fallen memorial

The place was first mentioned in 1223 as Smogez . In 1333 a parish church in the village was first mentioned. In 1379 the place was mentioned as Schmotsch .

After the First Silesian War in 1742 Schmitsch came with most of Silesia to Prussia . In 1760 a church was built in the village.

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community Schmitsch belonged to the district of Neustadt OS in the administrative district of Opole from 1816 . Between 1838 and 1841 a tower was added to the church. In 1845 there was a Catholic parish church, a Catholic school and another 126 houses in the village. In the same year 730 people lived in Schmitsch, all of them Catholic. In 1855 444 lived in Schmitsch. In 1865 there were 61 farmers, 17 gardeners and 57 cottagers in the village . The Catholic school was attended by 958 students in the same year. In 1874 the administrative district Schmitsch was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Kohlsdorf, Mühlsdorf, Schmitsch and the manor districts Hahnvorwerk and Haselvorwerk. In 1885 Schmitsch had 1106 inhabitants.

At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, the spelling was changed from Schmitsch to Schmietsch. In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921 Schmitsch was outside the voting area. In 1933 there were 247 inhabitants. On July 2, 1936, the place was renamed Loesstal . In 1939 Kohlsdorf had 233 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 Śmicz and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place became part of the Opole Voivodeship and has been part of the Powiat Prudnicki since 1999 . On March 6, 2006 , German was introduced as the second official language in the community of Zülz , to which Schmitsch belongs. On November 24, 2008, the place was also given the official German place name Schmitsch .

Sights and monuments

• The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Katharina (Polish Kościół św. Katarzyny Aleksandryjskiej ) was built in 1750 based on a design by the master builder Johann Innozenz Töpper. Before that there was a church building at the same place, which was first mentioned in 1333. The church was renovated between 1839 and 1840. The church has a four-story bell tower on the west side. The three- bay gallery inside has pillar arcades with round and segmented arches. The two-bay choir has a semicircular ending. The main altar painting Martyrdom of St. Katharina comes from Franz Anton Sebastini and was created in 1778. The ceiling frescoes from 1750 are also attributed to Sebastini. The building was listed as a historical monument in 1948.
• 19th century wooden attic.
• Several chapels
• crossroads
• Fallen memorial

societies

• German Friendship Circle

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Graport o stanie Gminy Biała za 2018 rok , accessed on June 8, 2020
2. ^ ^{A b} Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865, p. 1092
3. ^ Johann Georg Knie : Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, spots, cities and other places of the royal family. Preuss. Province of Silesia. Breslau 1845, p. 597.
4. ↑ Territorial District Śmicz / Lößtal
5. ↑ AGoFF district Neustadt OS
6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. neustadt_os.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ^ Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , p. 919.
8. ^ Monument register of the Opole Voivodeship