Widów (Rudziniec)

Widów Wydow
Help on coat of arms	Widów Wydow
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Silesia
Powiat :	Gliwicki (Gleiwitz)
Gmina :	Rudziniec (Rudzinitz)
Geographic location :	50 ° 25 '  N , 18 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 24 '43 "  N , 18 ° 25' 45"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 032
License plate :	SGL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice-Pyrzowice

Widów (German Wydow ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Administratively it is located in the municipality of Rudziniec (Rudzinitz) in the powiat Gliwicki (district of Gliwice) in the Silesian Voivodeship .

geography

Widów is five kilometers north of the township seat Rudziniec (Rudzinitz), 22 kilometers northwest of the district town Gliwice (Gleiwitz) and 45 kilometers west of the voivodeship capital Katowice .

To the southeast is Lake Pławniowice (Lake Plawniowice).

history

The place was created in the 13th century at the latest. 1295–1305 the place was first mentioned in a document as "Widowa" in Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis ( Tithe Register of the Diocese of Wroclaw) .

The place was mentioned in 1783 in the book Additions to the Description of Silesia as Wydow and was in the Tost district of the Principality of Opole . At that time he had 109 inhabitants, a Vorwerk , eleven farmers and 16 gardeners . In 1865 Wydow consisted of an estate and a village. The outlying Vorwerk Heinrichshöhe belonged to the estate . At that time the place had seven farmers, 23 gardeners and 13 cottagers. Wydow also had two gardening positions in Buczek.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 54 people eligible to vote locally voted for Upper Silesia to remain with Germany and 183 for membership in Poland. Wydow stayed with the German Empire after the division of Upper Silesia . In 1936 the place was renamed Widdenau in the wake of a wave of renaming during the Nazi era . Until 1945 the place was in the district of Tost-Gleiwitz .

In 1945 the formerly German town came under Polish administration and was then attached to the Silesian Voivodeship and renamed the Polish Widów . 1950 the place came to the Voivodeship Katowice. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Gliwicki and the Silesian Voivodeship.

Buildings

• Wayside chapel
• Wayside crosses
• A hop beech with a circumference of 360 centimeters.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedrich Albert Zimmermann: Additions to the Description of Silesia , Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
2. ↑ Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
3. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia in 1921: Literature , table in digital form