Stary Las (Głuchołazy)

Stary Las Altewalde
	Stary Las Altewalde
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Nysa
Gmina :	Głuchołazy
Geographic location :	50 ° 23 ′  N , 17 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 3 ″  N , 17 ° 24 ′ 19 ″  E
Height :	290-330 m npm
Residents :	687 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	48-340
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	ONY
Economy and Transport
Rail route :	Kędzierzyn-Koźle-Nysa
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Stary Las (German Altewalde ) is a village in the rural community Głuchołazy ( goat neck ) in Poland . It is located in the powiat Nyski ( Neisse district ) in the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

The Kamienica in Stary Las

Geographical location

The street village of Stary Las is located in the southwest of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is located about nine kilometers northeast of the municipality Głuchołazy , about 15 kilometers south of the district town of Nysa and about 65 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

The place is in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) within the Płaskowyż Głubczycki (Leobschützer Loesshügelland) in the border area to the Góry Opawskie ( Oppagebirge ) in the Sudety Wschodnie ( Eastern Sudetes ). The Kamienica ( Kamitz ) flows through the village . The Kędzierzyn-Koźle-Nysa railway runs south of the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Stary Las are in the north Kępnica ( German Kamitz ), in the south Nowy Las ( Neuwalde ) and in the west Sucha Kamienica ( Dürr Kamitz ).

history

St. Martin Church

Farm in Altewalde

The village was first mentioned as Waldow in 1249 . In the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from the years 1295-1305, the village is mentioned as Antiquum Waldow . In 1315 a church was first mentioned in the village. It belonged to the episcopal principality Neisse ( diocese land ). 1310 a mill with two wheels is mentioned in Antiquum Waldow . The place name antiquum waldow has been handed down for the year 1368 .

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

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community Altewalde belonged to the district of Neisse in the administrative district of Opole from 1816 . In 1845 there was a Scholtisei , a Catholic parish church, a Catholic school and 225 other houses in the village. In the same year, 1310 people lived in Altewalde, one of them Protestant and three Jewish. In 1855, 1440 people lived in the village. In 1865 there was a Scholtisei, 62 farmer, 47 gardener and 77 cottage industry positions as well as a brewery and a distillery. The three-class Catholic school was attended by 276 students in the same year. In 1874 the administrative district Deutsch Wette was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Altewalde, Deutsch Wette and Winsdorf as well as the manor district Deutsch Wette. In 1885 Altewalde had 1301 inhabitants.

On May 9, 1933, the Deutsch Wette district was dissolved and Altewalde was assigned to the Neuwalde district. In 1933 there were 1149 people in Altewalde and 1145 in 1939. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Neisse .

In 1945 Altewalde came under Polish administration and was renamed Stary Las . From 1950 it belonged to the Opole Voivodeship and from 1999 to the re-established Powiat Nyski .

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic Martinskirche (Polish: Kościół św. Marcina Biskupa ) was built between 1913 and 1914. A church had existed in the village since the 14th century. In the spring of 1945 the church was partially destroyed. The tower was used as an observation post after the village was conquered. The church was set on fire by artillery fire from the German Wehrmacht. The church was reconstructed and refurbished by 1963. The church has been a listed building since 1958.
• St. Martin's cemetery chapel - built in 1913
• Stone path chapel with a portrait of the Virgin Mary
• Stone path chapel from the first half of the 19th century
• Stone chapel from the first half of the 20th century
• Chapel from the second half of the 19th century
• Half-timbered store from the middle of the 19th century

Personalities

• Laurentius Hoheisel (1923–2008), Benedictine, last abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Grüssau in Bad Wimpfen, which was closed in 2004

societies

• Football club LZS Stary Las

Web links

Commons : Stary Las  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on December 30, 2018
2. ↑ Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis
3. ↑ Bernhard W. Scholz: The spiritual principality of Neisse . 2011 Böhlau Verlag Cologne Weimar Vienna, ISBN 978-3-412-20628-4 , 1998, p. 338
4. ↑ ^{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. 5.
5. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1028.
6. ^ ^{A b} Territorial district of Deutsch Wette / Langendorf
7. ↑ AGoFF circle Neisse
8. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Neisse district (Polish Nysa). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
9. ↑ History of the Church of St. Martin (Polish)
10. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Gmina Głuchołazy Monument Register (Polish)