Wichrau

Wichrau Wichrów
	Wichrau Wichrów
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Olesno
Gmina :	Radlau / Radłów
Geographic location :	50 ° 56 '  N , 18 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '0 "  N , 18 ° 36' 0"  E
Residents :	427 (2007)
Postal code :	42-331
Telephone code :	(+48) 34
License plate :	OOL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

Wichrau ( Polish : Wichrów ) is a town with around 430 inhabitants and a Schulzenamt in the bilingual rural municipality of Radlau / Radłów in the Oleski powiat in the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Wichrau is located in the northeast of the Opole Voivodeship, northeast of the district town of Olesno (Rosenberg OS) and in the north of Upper Silesia.

history

Old farmhouse from Wichrau in the Opole open-air museum

In February 1428, Windenaw was reported as burned out in a report by the city of Görlitz about the Hussite atrocities in Silesia.

The current Polish place name Wichrów is believed to have been derived from the personal name Wicher and may have been in use as early as the 16th century.

Between April 27, 1936 and 1945 the place was called Windenau. On April 1, 1939, Windenau was incorporated into the village of Grunsruh . Until 1945 Windenau was part of the Rosenberg OS district .

In 1945 Windenau came under Polish administration and was renamed Wichrów and attached to the Silesian Voivodeship. With the division of the Silesian Voivodeship into the Opole Voivodeship and Kattowitz, the place became part of the Opole Voivodeship. From 1975 to 1998 Wichrau was in the Czestochowa Voivodeship . In 1999, after the dissolution of the Czestochowa Voivodeship, the place came back to the Opole Voivodeship and the restored Powiat Oleski .

In 2006 Wichrau and the municipality of Radlau became officially bilingual and in September 2008 bilingual place-name signs were put up.

Population development

The population of Wichrau according to the respective territorial status:

year Residents 1783 224 1845 474 1910 550 1925 536 1933 510

Web links

• Wichrau website
• Radłów Commune website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Letter from Görlitz to Erfurt May 8, 1428, Erfurt City Archives.
2. ↑ Sources of population figures :

   1783, 1845: [1] - 1910: [2] - 1925, 1933: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.