Wiśnicze

Wiśnicze
	Wiśnicze
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
Powiat :	Gliwice
Gmina :	Wielowieś
Geographic location :	50 ° 30 '  N , 18 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 29 '39 "  N , 18 ° 33' 53"  E
Residents :	290 ()
Postal code :	44-185
Telephone code :	(+48) 32
License plate :	SGL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

Wiśnicze ( German Wischnitz , 1936–45 cherries ) is an Upper Silesian village in the municipality of Wielowieś in the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland .

Wiśnicze has 336 inhabitants. The hamlet of Goj (Charlottenhof) belongs to Wiśnicze . Neighboring towns of Wiśnicze are Świbie (Schwieben), Błażejowice (Blaschowitz) and Kotliszowice (Kottlischowitz).

history

The parish store (architectural monument)

Wischnitz was first mentioned on March 6, 1309 as Wisnice. From 1580 to 1610 Wischnitz was owned by Friedrich von Schamberg. This introduced Protestantism in the place in 1578 . Von Schamberg later sold the place to the Toster rule. When the Toster estates were divided up in 1666, Wischnitz and Schwieben passed to Georg Leonhard Count Collona.

From 1975 to 1998 Wiśnicze was in the Katowice Voivodeship .

Attractions

• Trinity Church
• Chapel in Goj (Charlottenhof)

Web links

Commons : Wiśnicze (Wischnitz)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

1. ↑ Szukacz.pl, Wiśnicze - Informacje dodatkowe , accessed on June 16, 2010
2. ↑ Johannes Chrząszcz : The history of the towns of Peiskretscham and Tost as well as the Tost-Gleiwitz district (2nd edition, 1927) (djvu file)