Starowice (Otmuchów)

Starowice Starrwitz
	Starowice Starrwitz
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Nysa
Gmina :	Otmuchów
Geographic location :	50 ° 31 '  N , 17 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '36 "  N , 17 ° 9' 51"  E
Height :	240-290 m npm
Residents :	161 (December 31, 2018)
Postal code :	48-385
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	ONY
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw Airport

Starowice (German Starrwitz , 1936-1945 Waldreuth ) is a village in the urban and rural community Otmuchów in the powiat Nyski in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland.

geography

Geographical location

The street village Starowice is located in the southwest of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is about five kilometers northwest of the municipality seat Otmuchów , about 15 kilometers northwest of the district town Nysa and about 70 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Starowice lies in the Przedgórze Sudeckie ( Sudeten foothills ) within the Wzgórza Niemczańsko-Strzelińskie ( Nimptsch-Strehlen-Heights ). The place is on the disused railway line Otmuchów - Przeworno .

Neighboring places

Neighboring places of Starowice are in the north Ogonów ( Ogen ), in the east Siedlec ( Zedlitz ), in the southeast Malerzowice Małe ( Klein Mahlendorf ) and in the southwest Maciejowice ( Matzwitz ).

history

In the work Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from the years 1295-1305, the place is first mentioned as Starowicz . The place name Starowicz has been handed down for the year 1369 .

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

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community of Starrwitz belonged to the district of Grottkau in the administrative district of Opole from 1816 . In 1836 the village received a school. In 1845 there was a castle, a chapel, a Catholic school and 39 other houses in the village. In the same year, 232 people lived in Starrwitz, nine of them Protestants. In 1855, 279 people lived in Starrwitz. In 1865 there were 22 gardeners in the village . The one-class school was attended by 43 students in the same year. In 1874 the district of Gauers was established, to which the rural communities EGauers, Pillwösche, Satteldorf, Starrwitz and Tharnau b. Ottmachau as well as the estate districts of Gauers, Pillwösche, Satteldorf, Starrwitz I, Starrwitz II and Tharnau b. Ottmachau belonged. The first head of office was the manor owner and captain a. D. of Scheliha. In 1885 Starrwitz had 193 inhabitants.

In 1933 there were 314 people in Starrwitz. On July 22, 1936, the place was renamed Waldreuth in the wake of a wave of renaming during the Nazi era . In 1939, 282 people lived in Waldreuth. Until the end of the war in 1945, the place belonged to the district of Grottkau .

As a result of the Second World War, Waldreuth fell under Polish administration in 1945, like most of Silesia . It was subsequently renamed Macewice and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. The German population was largely expelled . In 1947 the place name was changed to Starowice . In 1950 it was incorporated into the Opole Voivodeship. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Nyski . In 2007 172 people lived in the village.

Attractions

• The Starr joke Castle was built in neoclassical style in 1869 on behalf of Ernest of Schelih. The castle was listed as a historical monument in 1965.
• The castle is surrounded by a landscape park , which was placed under monument protection in 1981.
• chapel
• Wayside shrine

Personalities

• Paul Scholz (1822–1908), manor owner in Starrwitz and member of parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Graport o stanie Gminy Otmuchów za 2018 rok , accessed on March 5, 2020
2. ^ H. Markgraf, Wilhelm Schulte: Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis (=  Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae . Volume XIV ). Breslau 1889 (Latin, dokumentyslaska.pl [accessed March 5, 2020]).
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. 651.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1219 ( preview in Google book search).
5. ↑ Territorial District Gauers / Gauwald
6. ↑ Grottkau district. In: agoff.de, AGoFF , accessed on March 5, 2020.
7. ^ Administrative history - Grottkau district ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Characterystyka Gminy Otmuchów 2007 (Polish)
9. ↑ History and pictures of Starrwitz Castle (Polish)
10. ↑ ^{a b} Monument register of the Opole Voivodeship (Polish; PDF; 913 kB)