Wójtowa Wieś (Opole)

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Street decoration during the 2011 Thanksgiving Festival in Jana Kwoczka street with street chapel

Wójtowa Wieś ( German Vogtsdorf ) is a district of the independent city of Opole in the Polish Voivodeship of Opole .

geography

Geographical location

Wójtowa Wieś is about four kilometers southwest of downtown Opole on the left bank of the flood canal , an artificial branch of the Oder . The railway line between Opole and Neisse runs west of the village . The state road 45 and the provincial road Droga wojewódzka 414 also run through the village . The Olszanka brook flows through the village and flows into the flood canal east of Wójtowa Wieś. On the opposite side of the flood channel is Bolko Island .

Neighboring communities

Wójtowa Wieś borders in the north on Szczepanowice ( Szczepanowitz ), in the south on Winau ( Winów ) and in the east on Chmiellowitz ( Chmielowice ).

history

War memorial for the fallen villagers of both world wars

The village was first mentioned in 1308 as an advocati villa . In 1471 the place was mentioned in a document as Vogtsdorf . The name comes from the fact that the village was responsible for the maintenance of the bailiffs, in this case the mayor of Opole. The town was also mentioned in 1532 as Foytschdorf and in 1636 as Woytowawies .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Vogtsdorf and most of Silesia fell to Prussia . After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community Vogt village belonged from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a Catholic school and 74 other houses in the village. In 1845 there were 461 people in Vogtsdorf, one of them Protestant.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 421 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 305 for Poland. Vogtsdorf remained with the German Empire . In 1933 there were 1387 inhabitants. In 1939 the place had 1,657 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration, was renamed Wójtowa Wieś and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. From 1945 to 1954 the place was the seat of the municipality Wójtowa Wieś. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1975 the place was incorporated into the city of Opole and renamed Wójtowa . In 1997 the place was flooded during the Oder flood. In 2004 the place was renamed Wójtowa Wieś again .

Attractions

  • Memorial to the fallen of the First World War
  • Street chapel on Jana Kwoczka Street
  • Road cross from 1931 at Jana Kwoczka Street
  • Cemetery chapel

societies

Sons and daughters of the place

Web links

Commons : Wójtowa Wieś (Opole)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Kuhn: Settlement history of Upper Silesia . Oberschlesischer Heimatverlag, Würzburg. 1954, p. 95
  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. 709
  3. ^ K. Damroth: The older place names of Silesia, their origin and meaning. Verlag Felix Kasprzyk (Beuthen) 1896. P. 97
  4. ↑ Districts of Opole (Polish)
  5. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Administrative history - Opole district ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '  N , 17 ° 54'  E