Wendrin (Gross Lassowitz)

Wendrin Wędrynia
Help on coat of arms	Wendrin Wędrynia
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Kluczbork
Gmina :	Gross Lassowitz
Geographic location :	50 ° 52 '  N , 18 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '58 "  N , 18 ° 18' 44"  E
Residents :	468 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	46-275
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OKL
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 494 Częstochowa - Bierdzan
Next international airport :	Katowice-Pyrzowice

Wendrin ( Polish Wędrynia  [ vɛ̃w̃drɨɲˈa ] , 1936–1945 Liebeiche ) is a village in the Polish powiat Kluczborski of the Opole Voivodeship . It belongs to the bilingual community of Gross Lassowitz .

geography

Geographical location

Wendrin is located in the northwest of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is about six kilometers east of the community seat Groß Lassowitz , about 16 kilometers southeast of the district town Kluczbork ( Kreuzburg ) and 35 kilometers northeast of the voivodeship capital Opole .

The Budkowitzer Bach (Polish: Budkowiczanka ), a left tributary of the Stober (Polish: Stobrawa ), flows through Wendrin . Kudoba is located on 94 Droga wojewódzka Voivodeship Road . Extensive forest areas stretch south and north of the village.

Neighboring places

Neighboring places of Wendrin are in the north Grunowitz (Polish Gronowice ), in the east Łowoszów (German Lowoschau ) and in the west Kudoba ( Chudoba ).

history

Schrotholzkirche St. Johannes

The place originated in the 13th century at the latest and was first mentioned in 1295–1305 in the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis ( Tithe Register of the Diocese of Wroclaw) as "Wandrina". The name is topographical (as in the case of Vendryně ), where * vądr- is vaguely associated with water. In 1534 the place is mentioned again as Wendrin . The name roughly means village of hikers .

In 1742 Trebitschin and most of Silesia fell to Prussia . The place was mentioned in 1783 in the book Additions to the Description of Silesia as Wendrin , belonged to a Mr. von Lubowsky and was in the Rosenberg district and had 157 inhabitants, a manorial farm, two mills, six farmers, ten gardeners and three cottagers.

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community Trebitschin belonged from 1816 to the district of Rosenberg OS in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a castle, a Catholic church, two outbuildings, a distillery, a bleaching facility, a lime kiln and 45 other houses in the village. In the same year, 340 people lived in Wendrin, 69 of them Protestant and five Jewish. In 1865, Wendrin consisted of a manor and a village community. The manor belonged to two Vorwerk with the names Wendrin and Altvorwerk and it had a distillery, an oil felling, a flax breaking machine, a flour mill, a windmill, a board mill with two saws and a brickyard. At that time the village had eight farmers, nine gardeners, four half-gardeners and eight cottages, as well as a Catholic school. In 1874 the administrative district Wendrin was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Alt Kielbaschin, Neu Kielbaschin, Schöneich and Wendrin and the manor districts Alt Kielbaschin and Wendrin. The first head of office was the manor owner Baron Reiswitz in Wendrin.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 94 eligible voters voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 65 for membership in Poland. At Gut Wendrin, 202 voted for Germany and 56 for Poland. Wendrin remained with the German Empire after the division of Upper Silesia . In 1925 567 people lived in the village. In 1933 Wendrin had 624 inhabitants. On 29 July 1936, the site in the wake of a wave of local renaming was the Nazi era in love oak renamed. On April 1, 1939, Liebeiche were merged with the villages of Lauschen and Kirchwalde to form the municipality of Kirchwalde. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Rosenberg OS

In 1945 the formerly German town came under Polish administration and was then attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed the Polish Wędrynia . In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship and the re-established Powiat Kluczborski . On August 16, 2010, the place was also given the official German place name Wendrin .

Attractions

Side view of the Johanneskirche

• The Roman Catholic branch church of St. John (Polish: kościół filialny pw. Św. Jana Chrzciciela ) is a scrap wood church from the 18th century. A church in the village was mentioned as early as 1447. The rectangular nave with a choir closed on three sides has a tower on the west side. This was added in 1818. The interior is in the late Baroque style, which mainly dates from the 18th century, including the main altar and the pulpit. The church has been a listed building since 1954.
• The Castle Wendrin was from 1860. At the end of the 19th century it was rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style. The castle consists of three wings, a two-story central wing, three-story side wings and a gable roof. The central entrance is on the west side. On the east side there is a two-storey glazed veranda. The castle is currently not inhabited and is in ruins. The castle and park have been a listed building since 2002.
• The castle is surrounded by the former castle park . The family grave of the von Reiswitz family is located here.
• Crossroads on the state road

Web links

Commons : Wędrynia  - 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 January 27, 2019
2. ↑ Robert Mrózek: nazwy miejscowe dawnego Śląska Cieszyńskiego . Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach , 1984, ISSN  0208-6336 , p. 180-181 (Polish).
3. ↑ ^{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. 733.
4. ^ Heinrich Adamy : The Silesian place names. Their origin and meaning - a picture from the past. Priebatsch, Breslau 1889, p. 121
5. ↑ Friedrich Albert Zimmermann: Additions to the Description of Silesia, Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
6. ↑ Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
7. ↑ ^{a b} Territorial district of Wendrin / Kirchwalde
8. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
9. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Rosenberg district (Polish Olesno). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
10. ^ Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , p. 998.
11. ↑ ^{a b} List of Monuments of the Opole Voivodeship p. 45 (Polish)
12. ↑ Wendrin Castle (Polish)