Wielowieś

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Wielowieś
Langendorf
Wielowieś coat of arms
Wielowieś Langendorf (Poland)
Wielowieś Langendorf
Wielowieś
Langendorf
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Silesia
Powiat : Gliwicki (Gleiwitz)
Gmina : Wielowieś (Langendorf)
Geographic location : 50 ° 30 '  N , 18 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '0 "  N , 18 ° 36' 0"  E
Residents : 2000 ()
Postal code : 44-187
License plate : SGL
Economy and Transport
Street : Gliwice - Dobrodzień
Next international airport : Katowice
administration
Website : www.wielowies.pl



Castle in Wielowieś
Church in Wielowieś
Jewish Cemetery
The castle in the 19th century
Former Synagogue as it is today
Wayside shrine

Wielowieś (German Langendorf ) is a place in the Gmina Wielowieś in Poland 14 km north of Gliwice . Wielowieś is located in the powiat Gliwicki in the Silesian Voivodeship . Wielowieś is the municipality seat.

geography

Geographical location

Wielowieś is located in the west of the Silesian Voivodeship near the border with the Opole Voivodeship , north of the district town Gliwice (Gleiwitz) and east of Toszek (Tost) and in central Upper Silesia .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns are Kieleczka (Kieleschka), Czarków (Scharkow), Sieroty (Schieroth), Błażejowice (Blaschowitz) and Świbie (Schwieben).

history

The place originated in the 13th century at the latest and was documented for the first time between 1295 and 1305 in the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis (tenth register of the Diocese of Wroclaw) as "Magna Villa" in the sentence "Item in Magna Villa sunt XL mansi parvi decimam in capis de 3- bus triticis siliginis et avenae “ mentioned.

In 1335 the parish church was mentioned. In 1629 the now Protestant Langendorf returned to the Catholic religion, the nobility remained Protestant.

In 1664 a Jewish community of Jews from Poland was founded in Langendorf. Around 1720 there were 668 Catholics and 50 Jews in the parish, Langendorf was owned by Count Verdugo from Tworog . In 1779 General Johann Benedict von Groeling acquired Langendorf, sold it in 1780 and bought it back in 1781. Until 1780 the number of Jews increased significantly and the relatives from neighboring towns began to be buried in Langendorf. According to Rabbi Bernhard Brilling , every fourth inhabitant of Langendorf was Jewish in the 18th century. In 1817 there were 279 Jews.

The place was mentioned in 1783 in the book Beytrage describing Silesia as Langendorf , belonged to a Herr von Holy, was in the Tost district and had a manorial farm, a Catholic church, a Catholic school, a Jewish school, a Potaschsiederei, 26 farmers, 39 Gardeners, 25 cottagers and 399 Christians and 138 Jews. In 1818 the place was mentioned as Langendorf . In 1865 Langendorf consisted of a manor, a Vorwerk and a market town. The manor belonged to a Mr. Kuschel, the previous owners included the gentlemen von Garnier, von Jarotzky, Stiertz, von Wallhofen and du Port. The Herrmannshof Vorwerk belonged to a Mr. Strien and was once owned by the manor. The market town had one farmer's job, 19 half-farmer's jobs, 30 gardener's jobs and 62 housekeeping jobs. Four cattle markets and six general stores were held annually.

On April 10, 1902, the wedding of Baroness Eva von Durant de Senegas with Count Leo von Ballestrem took place in Langendorfer Church .

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 398 of the 918 inhabitants voted to remain in Germany and 511 to belong to Poland. Langendorf remained with the German Empire .

On February 6, 1926, a monument to the fallen was inaugurated on a piece of land donated by the Baron von Durant (from the Durand family, Marquis de Senegas et de bonne from Langduc). In the 1930s, a new settlement with 48 houses was built in Langendorf on the road to Schwieben .

Between 1934 and 1935 the Church of the Assumption of Mary was expanded. In 1935 the foundation stone for the Protestant chapel was laid in the presence of Bishop Zänker from Breslau, Pastor Zimmer from Tost and the builder Draub from Peiskretscham . In 1939 Langendorf came from the Opole district to the Katowice district. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Tost-Gleiwitz .

In 1945 the formerly German town came under Polish administration and was renamed Wielowieś and became part of the Silesian Voivodeship. From 1950 to 1998 Wielowieś was in the Katowice Voivodeship . In 1999 Wielowieś came to the Silesian Voivodeship and the re-established Powiat Gliwicki .

Since 2007, the Wielowieś Municipality has been located in the Castle at ul.Główna 1, previously at ul.Główna 25.

Population development

The population of Langendorf according to the respective territorial status:

year Residents
1910 1,246
1933 1,890
1939 2,074

Culture and sights

Attractions

  • Palace and park of the Verdugo family from 1748. Remodeled from 1923 to 1927.
  • The Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption of Mary from the 15th century, expanded in 1935. It has an artistically designed pulpit made of wood.
  • Evangelical Chapel, neo-Gothic chapel from 1924.
  • Catholic chapel from the 20th century
  • Former synagogue , the oldest synagogue in Upper Silesia, built in 1771. In use until 1938, it was bought by a Langendorfer, which meant that the building could be preserved. Was later converted into a warehouse.
  • Jewish cemetery from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries Century with about 250 preserved tombstones. The oldest surviving gravestone of the first Jewish citizen of Langendorf, Jonathan Bloch, from 1722.
  • Numerous town houses on the main street and on the side streets, u. a. built by Jewish citizens. Art Nouveau building from 1905 with white glazed bricks (ul. Główna 57), historical building from 1896 (ul. Szkolna 2), residential building from the second half of the 19th century (ul. Młyńska 1), former Catholic school the first half of the 19th century (ul. Kościelna 4) and the Schlesinger villa from 1910, which housed the municipal office until 2007 (ul. Główna 25).
  • Wayside shrine at the church with a figure of St. John Nepomuk and an old cross
  • Four wayside crosses from 1870, 1875 and 1903.

Cultural institutions

  • Cultural center of the community
  • Community public library

local community

see main article Gmina Wielowieś

education

  • a kindergarten
  • a primary school (Szkoła Podstawowa w Wielowsi)
  • a grammar school (Gimnazjum w Wielowsi)

traffic

The Tarnowskie Góry – Opole and Pyskowice – Lubliniec lines intersect in the municipality, the Borowiany railway station to the east of the intersection and Czarków to the south.

societies

Sons of the place

literature

  • Architectural and artistic monuments of the Tost-Gleiwitz district
  • Johannes Chrząszcz: "The history of the towns of Peiskretscham and Tost as well as the Tost-Gleiwitz district", 2nd edition, Peiskretscham 1927

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Szukacz.pl, Wielowieś - Informacje dodatkowe , accessed on October 28, 2010
  2. a b Johannes Chrząszcz : The history of the towns of Peiskretscham and Tost as well as of the Tost-Gleiwitz district (2nd edition, 1927) (djvu file)
  3. ^ Journal "Oberschlesien im Bild": Issue 45, 1928
  4. ^ Johann Ernst Tramp: Additions to the Description of Silesia, Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
  5. ^ Geographical-statistical handbook on Silesia and the county of Glatz, Volume 2 , 1818
  6. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
  7. ^ Results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921: Literature , table in digital form ( Memento from January 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  8. parish
  9. Sources of population figures :
    1910: [1] - 1933, 1939: Archived copy ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  10. Pictures of the pulpit: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4