Wierzbięcice

Wierzbięcice Oppersdorf
	Wierzbięcice Oppersdorf
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Nysa
Gmina :	Nysa
Geographic location :	50 ° 26 '  N , 17 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '0 "  N , 17 ° 26' 0"  E
Height :	270-300 m npm
Residents :	489 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Postal code :	48-303
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	ONY
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 41 Nysa - Prudnik
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Wierzbięcice (German Oppersdorf ) is a village in the rural community Nysa (Neisse) in Poland . It is located in the powiat Nyski (Neisse district) in the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

The Angerdorf Wierzbięcice is located in the southwest of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is located about ten kilometers southeast of the municipality and the district town of Nysa and about 59 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

The place is located in the Nizina Śląska ( Silesian Plain ) is within the Płaskowyż Głubczycki ( Leobschützer Loesshügelland ). The state road Droga krajowa 41 runs through the village . The disused railway line of the Neisser Kreisbahn lies south of the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring places of Wierzbięcice are in the north Domaszkowice ( Ritterswalde ), in the southeast Lipowa ( Lindewiese ) and in the southwest Koperniki ( Köppernig ) and in the west Kępnica ( German Kamitz ).

history

Oppersdorf on a map from 1746.

View of the village around 1925.

St. Nicholas Church (2012)

Village party

The place was founded in the thirteenth century. The oldest written mention can be found in documents of the church from 1302. In the work Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from the years 1295-1305, the place is mentioned for the first time as an opera villa . In 1363 the place is mentioned as Oprechtsdorf . The Hussite Wars of 1428 led to devastating devastation of the village and the church.

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Oppersdorf and most of Silesia fell to Prussia .

During the Napoleonic Wars, the place was the command post of the French military. oh the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Oppersdorf from 1816 to district Neisse in the administrative district of Opole . In 1839 a new school house was built. In 1845 there was a Catholic church, a Catholic school, a forest warden and 131 other houses in the village. In the same year, 951 people lived in Oppersdorf, eleven of them Protestants. In 1855, 979 people lived in the village. In 1874 the district of Oppersdorf was founded, which consisted of the rural communities of Oppersdorf and Ritterswalde and the manor districts of Ritterswalde and Ritterswalde. In 1885 Oppersdorf had 882 inhabitants.

In 1933 there were 706 people in Oppersdorf and 702 in 1939. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Neisse .

In 1945 the place came under Polish administration and was renamed Wierzbięcice , the population was expelled. 1950 Wierzbięcice came to the Opole Voivodeship. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Nyski . In 2010 the place had 489 inhabitants.

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic Church of St. Nicholas (Polish: Kościół św. Mikołaja ) has existed since 1253 and is first mentioned in the liber fundationis of 1302. In 1335 the church is again in the registers of the archpresbytery Neisse. The church was repeatedly renewed and rebuilt, especially after the devastation by the Hussites and after the great fire of 1630. The church is a Romanesque hall with a semicircular choir. The five-storey west tower has a pyramid roof and an attic in the Renaissance style from 1576. The interior is equipped with neo-Gothic altars and a wood-carved pulpit from 1786, created by the sculptor J. Harttmann. The church building has been a listed building since 1964.
• The rectory was built in a mixed baroque-classicist style.
• On the Nysa-Prudnik road (Neisse-Neustadt) there are two so-called redemption crosses . The first is from around the 15th century. It is a smaller cross about 80 by 50 centimeters in size; It is made of granite with chiseled loops and, according to tradition, was erected by the inhabitants of the village in memory of a woman who was murdered at this point. The second cross is about 80 meters further, it dates to 1623 and measures 100 by 40 centimeters. It was set up at the site of a heinous crime by a certain Melchior Rodewitz in memory of the brothers Kaspar and Friedrich Walde from Lindewiese, who were murdered at the Oppersdorf mill. The job came from the widow of one of them, who paid 24 thalers for it.
• Stone wayside chapel

societies

• Volunteer Fire Brigade OSP Wierzbięcice
• Football club LZS Wierzbięcice

Personalities

• Karl von Aulock (1771–1830), Catholic clergyman, at times pastor in Oppersdorf

literature

• August Kastner: History of the city of Neisse , Neisse 1854.
• Ferdinand Minsberg: Historical representation of the strangest events in the principality of Neisse , Neisse 1834.
• Felix Triest: Topographical Handbook of Upper Silesia , Breslau 1865.
• Słownik geografii turystycznej Sudetów, pod red. M. Staffa, t. 21, Wrocław 2008.

Web links

Commons : Wierzbięcice  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Art monuments of the Opole Voivodeship
• Central Office of Statistics Poland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Liczba mieszkańców w Gminie Nysa (Polish), Dec. 31, 2018, accessed on Dec. 2, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b} Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis
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. 462.
4. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 965.
5. ^ Territorial district of Oppersdorf
6. ↑ AGoFF circle Neisse
7. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Neisse district (Polish Nysa). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ^ Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , p. 1004.
9. ↑ Monument register of the Opole Voivodeship (Polish; PDF; 913 kB)