Szymonków

Szymonków Simmenau
	Szymonków Simmenau
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Kluczbork
Gmina :	Wołczyn
Geographic location :	51 ° 5 '  N , 17 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 4 '40 "  N , 17 ° 58' 52"  E
Height :	209 m npm
Residents :	582 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	46-250
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OKL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Szymonków ( German Simmenau ) is a place of Gmina Wołczyn in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland .

geography

Geographical location

Szymonków is located in the north-western part of Upper Silesia in the Kreuzburger Land in the border area to the Greater Poland region . The village of Szymonków is located about ten kilometers northwest of the municipality seat Wołczyn , about 24 kilometers west of the district town of Kluczbork and about 57 kilometers north of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Districts

The districts of Szymonków are Szklarnia (Szymonkowska) ( Vorwerk Glashütte ), Borownia ( Waldkretscham ), Wesoła ( Freudenthal ) and Zielona Góra ( Zu Simmenau ).

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Szymonków are Wielki Buczek ( Groß Butschek ) in the north, Krzywiczyny ( Schönfeld ) in the south-east, Wierzbica Górna ( Polish Würbitz ) in the south and Polkowskie ( Polkowitz ) and Woskowice Górne ( Hennersdorf ) in the west .

history

Simmenau Castle around 1860

Church of the Nativity of Mary

The village of Simmenau was first mentioned in 1257 as Semayanovo . In 1403 the village was mentioned as Semenaw .

In 1614 a Protestant scrap wood church is built in Simmenau. This was donated by the then squire Hans von Stwolinski. The builders were Hans Hase and his son.

Between 1842 and 1843 a new stone schoolhouse was built for the town. In 1845 the village consisted of an evangelical parish church, a castle, an evangelical school, a brewery, a distillery and another 73 houses. In the same year, 968 people lived in Simmenau, 162 of them Catholic and 16 Jewish. From 1858, Baron Rudolf von Lüttwitz had a castle built in Simmenau in the English neo-Gothic style. The stone neo-Gothic Protestant church in Simmenau was built between 1873 and 1875. In 1874 the Simmenau district was founded. The first head of office was the rent master Franz Rother.

In 1933 there were 1193 people in Simmenau, and in 1939 there were 1093 people. In the 1930s the castle was partially used for the Reich Labor Service . Until 1945 the village belonged to the Kreuzburg OS district

As a result of the Second World War, Simmenau fell under Polish administration in 1945, like most of Silesia . Subsequently, the place was renamed Szymonków and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 it was incorporated into the Opole Voivodeship. The castle, which remained undamaged during the war, was partly heavily devastated in the 1950s. It was demolished between 1956 and 1957 for the extraction of building material. In 1999 Szymonków came to the newly founded Powiat Kluczborski ( Kreuzburg district ).

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Virgin (Polish Kościół Narodzenia NMP ) was built between 1875 and 1875 on the site of the former scrap wood church in neo-Gothic style. The church served as a Protestant church until 1945.
• Artificial tower ruins in a romantic style
• The lion monument adorned the castle gate until 1945
• Boy Scout Monument

societies

• LSK Lew Szymonków football club

Web links

Commons : Szymonków  - 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 23, 2018
2. ↑ ^{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. 637.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Simmenau Castle
4. ↑ Territorial District Simmenau
5. ^ Administrative history - Kreis Kreuzburg OS ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ LSK Lew Szymonków (Pol.)