Szczepanowice (Opole)

Szczepanowice Sczepanowitz
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Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Gmina :	Opole
Geographic location :	50 ° 40 '  N , 17 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '34 "  N , 17 ° 53' 38"  E
Height :	155 m npm
Residents :	4700 (2017)
Postal code :	46-060
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 45 Wieluń - Racibórz
	Ext. 414 Prudnik - Opole
Next international airport :	Wroclaw Airport

Szczepanowice (German Sczepanowitz , 1934–1945 Stefanshöh ) is a district of the independent city of Opole in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Panorama of the place

Geographical location

The street village of Szczepanowice is located about three kilometers southwest of downtown Opole on the left bank of the flood canal , an artificial branch of the Oder . Szczepanowice lies in the Nizina Śląska ( Silesian Plain ) within the Równina Opolska ( Opole Plain ). North of the location of the located station Opole Zachodnie (dt. Oppelner West station ) with connections to Breslau and Nysa . The state road Droga krajowa 45 and the voivodship road Droga wojewódzka 414 also run through the village .

Neighboring places

Szczepanowice borders in the north on the Opole district Zaodrze ( Odervorstadt ), in the south on Wójtowa Wieś , in the west on Chmiellowitz ( Chmielowice ) and Zirkowitz ( Żerkowice ).

history

St. Joseph

Street chapel

The place Sczepanowitz was first mentioned in 1254 as Sczepanowicz . Further mentions were made in 1278 as Sczepanowice , 1295 as Schepanowitz and 1532 as Stczepanowitz .

After the First Silesian War in 1742 Sczepanowitz fell with most of Silesia to Prussia . In 1778 a Protestant school was established in the village.

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Sczepanowitz from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a farm, a Protestant school, a brick factory and 23 houses in the village. In the same year 193 people lived in Sczepanowitz, eight of them Catholic. In 1855 there were 228 people in Sczepanowitz. In 1865 there was one farmer, one half-farmer, five cottagers and one local man in the village. The village was parish to Opole. In 1874 the district of Sczepanowitz was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Chrzowitz, Follwark, Gorrek, Sczepanowitz, Vogtsdorf and Winau and the manor districts of Sczepanowitz Domain and Winau Domain. The first head of office was the Kgl. Oberamtmann Hohberg in Sczepanowitz. In 1885 Sczepanowitz had 324 inhabitants.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 359 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 242 for Poland. Sczepanowitz remained with the German Empire . In 1925 there were 1152 inhabitants. In the spring of 1928 the construction of the St. Joseph Church began . The church was consecrated on October 6, 1929. On January 30, 1934, the place was renamed Stefanshöh . On April 1, 1936, Stefanshöh was incorporated into the city of Opole from the district of Opole . In the same year the barracks were built south of the village.

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration, was renamed Szczepanowice and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1997 the village was flooded when the Oder floods. In December 2013, the Wodna Nuta indoor swimming pool opened to the south of the barracks at ul. Prószkowska .

Attractions

• Roman Catholic St. Joseph Church - built in 1929
• St. Franziskus House - retirement home built in 1868, extension in 2005
• Street chapel on Wojciecha Biasa Street

Web links

Commons : Szczepanowice (Opole)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brochure City Districts Opole p. 22 (Polish)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Districts of Opole
3. ↑ ^{a b c} 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. 624.
4. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865, p. 66
5. ^ Territorial district of Sczepanowitz / Vogtsdorf
6. ^ Opole district. In: agoff.de, AGoFF , accessed on April 25, 2020.
7. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ szczepanowice.opole.pl
9. ^ Szczepanowice barracks
10. ↑ Oder flood in Opole 1997 (Polish)
11. ↑ Press article on the opening of Wodna Nuta
12. ↑ History of the retirement home in Szczepanowice ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Polish)