Wierzbie

Wierzbie Wiersbel
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Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Nysa
Gmina :	Łambinowice
Area :	11.73  km²
Geographic location :	50 ° 33 '  N , 17 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '0 "  N , 17 ° 38' 5"  E
Height :	200 m npm
Residents :	639 (January 3, 2019)
Postal code :	48-316
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	ONY
Economy and Transport
Street :	Ext. 406 Nysa - Włostowa
Rail route :	Opole – Nysa
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Wierzbie ( German Wiersbel , 1936–1945 Weidengut ) is a place of Gmina Łambinowice in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland .

geography

Geographical location

The street village of Wierzbie is located in the southwestern part of Upper Silesia in the Falkenberger Land. The village of Wierzbie is located about two kilometers southeast of the municipality of Łambinowice , about 20 kilometers northeast of the district town of Nysa (Neisse) and about 39 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Wierzbie lies in the Nizina Śląska (Silesian Plain) within Równina Niemodlińska (Falkenberg Plain) . The Voivodeship Road Droga wojewódzka 406 runs through the village . To the east of the village are extensive forest areas that belong to the Niemodlin forest.

Neighboring places

Neighboring places of Wierzbie are in the northwest of the municipality Łambinowice (Lamsdorf) , in the southeast Włostowa (Floste) , in the southwest Niesiebędowice (Nüßdorf) and in the west Budzieszowice (Bauschwitz) .

history

Exaltation of the Cross Church

Cemetery chapel

The village was first mentioned in 1442. Settlement in the same place already existed in the Bronze Age .

The village was destroyed during the Thirty Years War .

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Wiersbel fell with most of Silesia to Prussia . In 1783 there were two school courtyards, 23 farmers, 28 gardeners and five cottagers and 375 residents in the village. In 1794 a chapel was built in the village.

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia , the rural community of Wiersbel belonged to the district of Falkenberg OS in the administrative district of Opole from 1818 . In 1820 a Catholic school was set up in Wiersbel. In 1845 there was a castle, a farm, a Catholic church, a Catholic school, a distillery and 108 houses in the village. In the same year, 852 people lived in Wiersbel, 21 of them Protestants. In 1861 Wiersbel had 1013 inhabitants. In 1865 the village had two Schulzenhöfe, 23 farmers, 28 gardeners and 28 cottagers. The one-class school had 188 students in the same year. In 1874 the Wiersbel district was founded, which consisted of the rural communities Sabine and Wiersbel and the estate districts of Sabine and Wiersbel. In 1885 Wiersbel had 924 inhabitants.

Between 1905 and 1906 a Catholic church was built in the village. In 1921 Wiersbel was given an independent Catholic parish. In 1933 Wiersbel had 988 inhabitants. On July 28, 1936 the place name was changed to Weidengut . In 1939 Weidengut had 1008 inhabitants. In 1940 an airfield was built north of the village. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Falkenberg OS

Shortly before the Red Army marched in , the village was evacuated on March 16, 1945. The Red Army entered the village the next day. Then in 1945 Wiersbel fell under Polish administration like most of Silesia . The place was subsequently renamed Wierzbie and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. The previously evacuated population returned a short time later, but were expelled in June 1946. In 1950 it was incorporated into the Opole Voivodeship. In 1999 the place came to the newly founded Powiat Nyski (Neisse district) . In 2011, 565 people lived in Wierzbie.

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic Church of the Exaltation of the Cross (Polish Kościół Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego ) was built between 1905 and 1906 in neo-Romanesque style.
• The current cemetery chapel was built in 1794 in the baroque style.
• The Wiersbel castle was destroyed 1945th The farm buildings have been preserved.
• Village pond
• Wayside chapel

societies

• Volunteer fire brigade OSP Wierzbie
• Sports club LKS Wierzbie

Web links

Commons : Wierzbie  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Wierzbie - dates (Polish)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Heimatverein des Kreises Falkenberg O / S (Ed.): Heimatbuch des Kreis Falkenberg in Oberschlesien. Scheinfeld 1971, pp. 251-252.
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. 739.
4. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien. Breslau 1865, p. 1153.
5. ↑ Territorial District Wiersbel / Weidengut
6. ↑ AGoFF county Falkenberg OS
7. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district Falkenberg OS (Polish Niemodlin). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ↑ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku ( XLSX file, Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on June 28, 2019