Old Kuttendorf

Alt Kuttendorf Stare Kotkowice
	Alt Kuttendorf Stare Kotkowice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Prudnik
Gmina :	Upper Logau
Geographic location :	50 ° 21 '  N , 17 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 20 '33 "  N , 17 ° 54' 18"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OPR
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

Townscape with church

The Barbara Church

Site with wayside cross

Alt Kuttendorf (Polish: Stare Kotkowice ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Alt Kuttendorf is located in the municipality of Oberglogau ( Głogówek ) in the Powiat Prudnicki (Neustadt OS district) in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

Alt Kuttendorf is three kilometers east of the municipality of Oberglogau , 24 kilometers east of the district town of Prudnik (Neustadt OS) and 37 kilometers south of the voivodship capital Opole (Opole).

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Alt Kuttendorf are in the west the town of Oberglogau , in the north Neu Kuttendorf ( Nowe Kotkowice ), in the northeast Rosnochau ( Rozkochów ), in the east Friedersdorf ( Biedrzychowice ) and in the southeast Fröbel ( Wróblin ).

history

The place was first mentioned in the 13th century, in connection with a mention of the Czarnowanz monastery. In a document from Bolko dated March 27, 1430 from the possession of the Czarnowanz monastery , the place is mentioned with the spellings Kotchendurff, Cotchendurff and Cotkendurff. After a Vorwerk was laid out north of Kuttendorf in the 19th century and was named Neu Kuttendorf , the place was henceforth called Alt Kuttendorf. In 1847 or 1850 a new church building was built. In 1865 the place had 13 farmers, 13 gardeners and 15 cottagers. At this point in time, the students were enrolled in Friedersdorf.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 255 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 20 for Poland, in the Alt Kuttendorf estate 48 people voted for Germany and no one for Poland. Alt Kuttendorf remained with the German Empire . In 1933 there were 557 inhabitants. In 1939 the place had 542 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 Stare Kotkowice 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 , which Alt Kuttendorf belongs to. On December 1, 2009, the place was also given the official German place name Alt Kuttendorf .

Sights and monuments

• The Catholic St. Barbara Church from the 19th century.
• Wayside crosses
• Fallen memorial
• Three way chapels, u. a. from the 19th century and the year 1827
• Mary figure

societies

• German Friendship Circle

Web links

Commons : Alt Kuttendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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. District Neustadt in Upper Silesia. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
5. ↑ List of monuments of the Opole Voivodeship , p. 107 (PDF; 515 kB).