Stroszowice

Stroszowice Stroschwitz
	Stroszowice Stroschwitz
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Brzeg
Gmina :	Lewin Brzeski
Geographic location :	50 ° 44 '  N , 17 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '51 "  N , 17 ° 35' 31"  E
Height :	149 m npm
Residents :	168 (December 31, 2012)
Postal code :	49-340
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	IF
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw Airport

Stroszowice (German Stroschwitz , 1936-1945 street village ) is a village in the municipality Lewin Brzeski in the powiat Brzeski of the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

The street village of Stroszowice is located in the west of the historical region of Upper Silesia on the border with Lower Silesia . The place is three kilometers southwest of the municipality Lewin Brzeski (Leuven), 21 kilometers southeast of the district town Brzeg (Brieg) and 30 kilometers northwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Stroszowice is located in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) on the edge of the Dolina Nysy Kłodzkiej (Glatzer Neisse Valley) to the Równina Niemodlińska (Falkenberg plain) . The Glatzer Neisse flows north of the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring places of Stroszowice are in the northeast of the municipality Lewin Brzeski ( Löwen ), in the southeast Oldrzyszowice ( Hilbersdorf ), in the southwest Sarny Małe ( Klein Sarne ) and in the north Kantorowice ( Kantersdorf ).

history

The place Stroschwitz was first mentioned in 1218. The area around Stroschwitz was already settled in the Neolithic Age. This was revealed by archaeological excavations in the vicinity of the village. The place name is derived from the Slavic word Stroza and means guardian village . In 1534 the village is mentioned as Strosswitz .

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

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community Stroschwitz belonged from 1816 to the district of Falkenberg OS in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a forge and 37 houses in the village. In the same year, 299 people lived in Stroschwitz, 49 of them Catholic. In 1874 the Hilbersdorf district was founded, which consisted of the rural communities of Arnsdorf, Hilbersdorf, Klein Sarne, Rauske and Stroschwitz and the manor districts of Arnsdorf, Hilbersdorf, Klein Sarne, Rauske and Stroschwitz. In 1885 Stroschwitz had 315 inhabitants.

In 1933 Stroschwitz had 304 inhabitants. On July 28, 1936, the place name was changed to Straßendorf . In 1939 the place had 289 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Falkenberg OS

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Stroszowice and assigned to the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the powiat Brzeski .

Attractions

• Memorial tower for the fallen of the First World War

Individual evidence

1. ↑ - Population Gmina Lewin Brzeski , December 31, 2012, accessed on August 26, 2019
2. ↑ history and description of Stroszowice (Polish)
3. ^ Heinrich Adamy: The Silesian place names, their origin and meaning. Verlag von Priebotsch's Buchhandlung, Breslau 1888, p. 12.
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. 11.
5. ^ Territorial district of Hilbersdorf
6. ↑ AGoFF county Falkenberg OS
7. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Falkenberg (Polish Niemodlin). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).