Smolnitz
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Gliwice (Gliwice) | ||
| Gmina : | Kieferstädtel | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 15 ' N , 18 ° 34' E | ||
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| Telephone code : | (+48) 032 | ||
| License plate : | SGL | ||
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| Next international airport : | Katowice | ||
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Smolnitz (Polish: Smolnica ) is a village in Upper Silesia . It is located in the municipality of Kieferstädtel in the Powiat Gliwicki (district of Gliwice) in the Silesian Voivodeship .
geography
Smolnitz is about four kilometers south of the township Kieferstädtel , ten kilometers southwest of the district town Gliwice ( Gleiwitz ) and 33 kilometers west of the voivodeship capital Katowice ( Kattowitz ).
history
The place was created in the 13th century at the latest and was first mentioned in 1228 as Smolitz . 1295–1305 the place was mentioned in the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis ( tithe register of the diocese of Breslau ) as "Smolitz". In 1305 the village received German law and Magdeburg law.
The place was mentioned in 1783 in the book Beytrage describing Silesia as Schmolni (t) z , was in the Tost district and had 200 inhabitants, two farms, eleven farmers, 17 gardeners and a Catholic church. In 1818 the place was mentioned as Schmolnitz . In 1843 the Catholic Church was founded. In 1865 Smolnitz had four farm positions, 25 half-farmers, nine quarter farmers and 31 cottages. There was also a shoemaker, two tailors, a carpenter, two wheelwright, two bricklayers, four blacksmiths, four food dealers, three peddlers, a bartender and two potters. A brick factory had existed since 1854.
In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 68 eligible voters voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 352 for membership of Poland. After the division of Upper Silesia, Smolnitz remained with the German Empire . On February 12, 1936, the place was renamed Eichenkamp as part of a wave of renaming during the Nazi era . Between 1937 and 1941, the SA settlement Eichenkamp, which later became the place of faith , was built on the grounds of Eichenkamp . Until 1945 the place was in the district of Tost-Gleiwitz .
In 1945 the previously German town came under Polish administration and was then attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed the Polish Smolnica . In 1950 the place came to the Katowice Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Gliwicki and the new Silesian Voivodeship. On October 10, 2013, the place was also given the official German place name Smolnitz .
Attractions
- The Roman Catholic Bartholomäuskirche made of scrap wood, built around 1603 by Protestants
- The modern Roman Catholic St. Mary's Church from the 1970s
- chapel
- Wayside chapel
- Memorial to the fallen of the First and Second World Wars
- Memorial stone with the earlier mentions of the place name
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plan odnowy wsi Smolnica na lata 2007-2013
- ^ Johann Ernst Tramp: Additions to the Description of Silesia, Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
- ^ Geographical-statistical handbook on Silesia and the county of Glatz, Volume 2 , 1818
- ↑ Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
- ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
Old hammer (Trachy) | Bargłówka (Barglowka) | Lona-Lany (Łany Wielkie) | Kieferstädtel (Sośnicowice) | Koslow (Kozłów) | Rachowitz (Rachowice) | Schierakowitz (Sierakowice) | Smolnitz (Smolnica) | Tworóg Mały (Quarghammer)
Hamlet: Gajówka (Kuznitzka) | Kuźniczka (Upper Kuznitzka) | Nowa Wieś (Neudorf) | Podlesie (Waldvorwerk) | Sierakowiczki (Klein Schierakowitz) | Wesoła (mountain sheep farm) | Zamoście (Zamoscie)