Stary Grodków

Stary Grodków Alt-Grottkau
	Stary Grodków Alt-Grottkau
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Nysa
Gmina :	Skoroszyce
Area :	8.66  km²
Geographic location :	50 ° 39 '  N , 17 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '13 "  N , 17 ° 23' 10"  E
Height :	160-180 m npm
Residents :	410 (December 31, 2018)
Postal code :	48-320
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	ONY
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 401 Nysa - Brzeg
Rail route :	Nysa – Brzeg
Next international airport :	Wroclaw Airport

Stary Grodków (German Alt-Grottkau ) is a village in the rural municipality of Skoroszyce in Poland . It is located in the powiat Nyski (Neisse district) in the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

The street village of Stary Grodków is located in the southwest of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is about seven kilometers north of the municipality Skoroszyce , about 20 kilometers northeast of the district town Nysa and about 50 kilometers west of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Stary Grodków is located in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) within the Dolina Nysy Kłodzkiej (Glatzer Neisse Valley) . The Voivodeship Road Droga wojewódzka 401 runs through the village . The station Stary Grodków is located on the railway line Nysa-Brzeg . The Stara Struga , a left tributary of the Glatzer Neisse, flows south of the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Stary Grodków are Nowa Wieś Mała ( Klein Neudorf ) in the north, Kopice ( Koppitz ) in the east and Żarów ( Sorgau ) in the west .

history

Trinity Church

Fallen memorial

The village was founded in the 12th century and is one of the oldest settlements in the area. The place was first mentioned in 1210 as villa Grodcovichi . Neu-Grottkau, today's Grodków , was founded in the middle of the 13th century. For the year 1234 the name Antiquum Grotcow and 1296 the name Grodovichi is handed down. In 1369 it was mentioned as Heinrichsdorf .

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

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community Alt-Grottkau belonged to the district of Grottkau in the administrative district of Opole from 1816 . In 1845 there was a castle, a Vorwerk, a Catholic parish church, a brewery, a distillery, an inn, a pub, two mills and 120 other houses in the village. In the same year, 847 people lived in Alt-Grottkau, 30 of them Protestants. In 1855, 961 people lived in Alt-Grottkau. In 1865 there was a Scholtisei , 15 farmers, six half-farmers, 42 gardeners and 22 cottagers , and eight dominial positions. The two-class Catholic school was attended by 223 students in the same year. In 1874 the district of Alt-Grottkau was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Alt Grottkau and Klein Neudorf and the estate districts of Alt Grottkau and Klein Neudorf. The first head of office was the manor owner and lieutenant Scupin in Klein Neudorf. In 1885 Alt-Grottkau had 863 inhabitants.

In 1933 838 people lived in Alt-Grottkau and 830 in 1939. Until the end of the war in 1945, the place belonged to the district of Grottkau .

Alt Grottkau was captured by Soviet soldiers on February 6th. Shortly afterwards the German Wehrmacht tried to recapture the village. Despite high losses on the Soviet side, the village could not be recaptured. As a result, Alt-Grottkau fell under Polish administration in 1945, like most of Silesia . It was subsequently renamed Stary Grodków and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. The German population was largely expelled . In 1950 it was incorporated into the Opole Voivodeship. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Nyski . In 2011 453 people lived in the village.

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic Trinity Church (Polish Kościół Trójcy Świętej ) was first mentioned in 1271. At the end of the 13th century a stone Gothic hall was built. Between 1911 and 1912 the church was expanded and rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style. The church tower originally had a baroque dome, which was destroyed in 1945. The church is surrounded by a stone wall. The church building was placed under monument protection in 1966.
• Memorial stone in memory of the 800th anniversary
• Memorial to the fallen of the First World War - only partially preserved
• Entrance building of the station

societies

• Football club LZS Stary Grodków

Personalities

• Henry Kotowski (1944–2019), musician

Web links

Commons : Stary Grodków  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Report o stanie Gminy Skoroszyce za rok 2018 (Polish), May 2019, accessed on April 10, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b} Hans Weiser: Gruttke is '' ne rail Stoadt. A colorful mosaic stone in the beautiful Silesian region. , 1997
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. 186.
4. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1185 ( preview in Google book search).
5. ^ Territorial district of Alt-Grottkau
6. ↑ Grottkau district. In: agoff.de, AGoFF , accessed on February 19, 2020.
7. ^ Administrative history - Grottkau district ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Georg Gunter : Last laurel. History of the fighting in Upper Silesia from January to May 1945. Laumann Verlagsgesellschaft; 7th edition, Dülmen 2006, ISBN 3-89960-284-6 . P. 263
9. ↑ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku ( XLSX ; Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on February 18, 2020
10. ^ Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , p. 870.
11. ↑ Monument register of the Opole Voivodeship (Polish; PDF; 913 kB)