Wójtowice (Grodków)

Wójtowice Voigtsdorf
	Wójtowice Voigtsdorf
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Brzeg
Gmina :	Grodków
Geographic location :	50 ° 41 ′  N , 17 ° 19 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 42 ″  N , 17 ° 19 ′ 21 ″  E
Height :	185 m npm
Residents :	160 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	49-200
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	IF
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext . 385 Jaczowice - Tłumaczów
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Wójtowice ( German Voigtsdorf ) is a village in the municipality of Grodków (Grottkau) in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland .

geography

Geographical location

The street village of Wójtowice is located in the west of the historical region of Upper Silesia in the Grottkauer Land. Wójtowice is five kilometers southwest of Grodków , about 30 kilometers southwest of the district town of Brzeg ( Brieg ) and about 45 kilometers west of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Wójtowice lies in the Nizina Śląska ( Silesian Plain ) within the Równina Grodkowska ( Grottkau Plain ). The provincial road Droga wojewódzka 385 runs through the village . The disused rails of the Grodków Śląski – Głęboka Śląska railway line run north of the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns are Lubcz ( Leuppusch ) in the north, Tarnów ( Tharnau bei Grottkau ) in the northeast, Żelazna ( Märzdorf ) in the northwest, Nowa Wieś Mała ( Klein Neudorf ) in the east, Alt Grottkau in the southeast, Jędrzejów ( Endersdorf ) and Starowice Dolne ( Hönigsdorf ) in the South, Gierów ( Gührau ) and Wierzbna ( Würben ) in the south-west, Mikołajowa ( Niklasdorf ) in the west and Gałązczyce ( Giersdorf ) and Sulisław ( Zülzhof ) in the north-west.

history

Manor Castle

chapel

Voigtsdorf was first mentioned in a document as "villa Advocati" 1303–1304 in the Registrum Wratislaviense ( Wroclaw Register ). In 1343 "Advocati villa" was acquired by the city of Grottkau, with whom it came in 1344 to the episcopal principality of Neisse , which had been a fiefdom of the Bohemian Crown since 1342 . In 1373, 1375 and 1379 Hanco and Johannes are recorded as Scholzen . In 1375 the place is mentioned as Voytsdorff . In 1425 the place name "Foytsdorf" has been handed down, which was one of the villages in the Brieger district that only paid the episcopal Vierdung . In 1579 Foytsdorf belonged to the heirs of Friedrich Eschech.

After the First Silesian War in 1742 Voigtsdorf and most of the Principality of Neisse fell to Prussia . In 1760 a chapel was built by order of the Baron von Rottenburg.

In 1810 the principality of Neisse was secularized . After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community Voigtsdorf belonged from 1816 to the district of Grottkau in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a farm and 30 other houses in the village. In the same year 135 people lived in Voigtsdorf, five of them Protestants. In 1855, 134 people lived in Voigtsdorf. In 1857 a stone chapel was built in the village. In 1865 there were 11 gardeners and three cottagers in the village . The one-class Catholic school was attended by 80 students in the same year. From 1874 it was incorporated into the district of Endersdorf , which consisted of the rural communities of Endersdorf and Voigtsdorf as well as the manor districts of the same name. In 1885 Voigtsdorf had 91 inhabitants.

In 1933, 163 people lived in Voigtsdorf, in 1939 there were 158. Until the end of the war in 1945, the place belonged to the Grottkau district .

As a result of the Second World War, Voigtsdorf fell under Polish administration in 1945, like most of Silesia . It was subsequently renamed Wójtowice and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. The German population was largely expelled . In 1950 it was incorporated into the Opole Voivodeship. Since 1999 Wójtowice has been part of the newly founded Powiat Brzeski ( Brieg district ).

Attractions

• The Voigtsdorf manor house was built in the second half of the 19th century in the neo-Gothic style.
• chapel
• Entrance building of the former train station - built in 1891
• Stone path chapel with a portrait of Jesus
• Stone wayside cross

Personalities

• Johann Theodor von Tschesch (born March 18, 1595 in Voigtsdorf; † February 22, 1649 in Elbing ) German lawyer and mystic.

literature

• Bernhard W. Scholz: The spiritual principality Neisse . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20628-4 , pp. 150, 188, 200 and 391.

Web links

Commons : Wójtowice (Grodków)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on January 27, 2019
2. ↑ ^{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. 709.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1185 ( preview in Google book search).
4. ↑ Municipal directory of the Grottkau district
5. ^ Endersdorf district
6. ↑ Grottkau district. In: agoff.de, AGoFF , accessed on February 10, 2020.
7. ^ Administrative history - Grottkau district ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Gutsschloss Voigtsdorf - history and description (Polish)
9. ^ Adolf Schimmelpfennig :  Tschesch, Johann Theodor von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 718 f.