Sowade

Sowade ; Zawada
	Sowade ; Zawada
	Sowade ; Zawada
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Opole
Gmina :	Turawa
Area :	12.23 km²
Geographic location :	50 ° 43 ′ N , 18 ° 0 ′ E Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 49 ″ N , 17 ° 59 ′ 37 ″ E
Height :	158 m npm
Residents :	1459 (March 31, 2013)
Postal code :	46-022
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPO
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 45 Wieluń - Racibórz
Next international airport :	Katowice
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Sowade (also Sowada , Polish Zawada [ zaˈvada ], 1936–1945 Hinterwasser OS ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Sowade is located in the municipality of Turawa in the Powiat Opolski (Opole district) in the Polish Voivodeship of Opole . Sowade has been officially bilingual (Polish and German) since 2012.

geography

Jemielnica in Sowade

St. Florian

Fallen memorial in the cemetery

Geographical location

Sowade is located in the historical region of Upper Silesia in the Opole region . The place is about seven kilometers southwest of the municipal seat Turawa and seven kilometers northeast of the district town and voivodeship capital Opole ( Opole ).

Sowade lies in the Nizina Śląska ( Silesian Plain ) within the Równina Opolska ( Opole Plain ). The place is on the Himmelwitzer water (or the Chronstauer Flößbach, Polish Chrząstawa or Jemielnica ). The state road Droga krajowa 45 runs through Sowade .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Sowade are Kempa ( Kępa ) in the west, Luboschütz ( Luboszyce ) in the north-west, Kollanowitz ( Kolanowice ) in the north, Wengern ( Węgry ) in the north-east , the hamlet of Borek and Klein Kottorz ( Kotórz Mały ) and in the south-west the Opole district of Gosławice ( Goslawitz).

history

The place was created in 1618 as a Vorwerk on the Chaussee from Opole to Rosenberg . The place name is derived from the name of the founder, village of Zawada . After the First Silesian War in 1742, Sowade and most of Silesia fell to Prussia .

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Sowade from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 the village is mentioned as Sowada . In the same year there were 62 houses in the village. In the same year 405 people lived in Sowade, twelve of them Protestant and seven Jewish. In 1865 the place had 16 gardeners and seven farmhands and 24 farmhands. A Catholic school with 80 children is also mentioned at this time. In 1874 the district of Sowade was founded. The first head of office was the domain tenant Gerstenberg.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 232 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 224 for Poland, in the Sowade manor 77 people voted for Germany and no person for Poland. Sowade remained with the German Reich . In 1933 there were 1088 inhabitants. On May 19, 1936, the place was renamed Hinterwasser . In 1939 the place had 1,209 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .

In 1945 the previously German town of Sowade came under Polish administration and was renamed Zawada and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . From 1982 to 1994 the new Catholic church was built. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Opolski . On March 8, 2012, the place was also given the official German place name Sowade .

Sights and monuments

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Florian (Polish Kościół św. Floriana ) was built between 1982 and 1994. The parish of the same name was founded in 1985. The consecration of the church building took place on October 26, 1996 under the Opole bishop Alfons Nossol .
Memorial to the fallen soldiers of both world wars in the village cemetery
Castle wall
Former manor park

societies

German Friendship Circle
The voluntary fire brigade in Sowade provides fire protection and general help, especially at the local level
Football club LZS Zawada

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Population of the municipality of Turawa (Polish) (accessed on May 2, 2018)
↑ ^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. 645.
^ Heinrich Adamy : The Silesian place names, their origin and meaning - A picture from prehistoric times , Breslau, Priebatsch, 1889, p. 24
^ Territorial district of Sowade
↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Opole district (Polish Opole). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
^ History of the Church of St. Florian (Polish)

[1] Population of the municipality of Turawa (Polish) (accessed on May 2, 2018)

[Knie-2] 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. 645.

[Adamy-3] Heinrich Adamy : The Silesian place names, their origin and meaning - A picture from prehistoric times , Breslau, Priebatsch, 1889, p. 24

[4] Territorial district of Sowade

[5] See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

[Vwg-6] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Opole district (Polish Opole). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[7] History of the Church of St. Florian (Polish)