Wierzchy (Wołczyn)

Wierzchy Wierschy
	Wierzchy Wierschy
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Kluczbork
Gmina :	Wołczyn
Geographic location :	50 ° 58 '  N , 18 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '17 "  N , 18 ° 3' 20"  E
Height :	165 m npm
Residents :	331 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	46-250
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OKL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw

Wierzchy ( German Wierschy , 1936-1945 Stoberbrück ) is a place of Gmina Wołczyn in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland .

geography

Geographical location

Wierzchy is located in the northwestern part of Upper Silesia in the Kreuzburger Land. The village of Wierzchy is about six kilometers south of the municipality seat Wołczyn , about 16 kilometers west of the district town of Kluczbork and about 41 kilometers northeast of the voivodeship capital Opole .

The village is on the left bank of the Stober . In the south, the village borders the Stobrawski Landscape Protection Park .

Neighboring places

Neighboring places of Wierzchy are in the north Wąsice ( Wundschütze ), in the northeast Markotów Duży ( Margsdorf ), in the southeast Bogacka Szklarnia ( Bodland glassworks ) and in the west Szum ( Schumm ).

history

Wayside chapel

Church of St. Peter and Paul

The place name is derived from the location on a hill and means village on the heights .

In 1845 the village consisted of a Catholic school, a farm, a sheep farm and another 41 houses. In the same year, 372 people lived in Wierschy, 65 of them Protestants. In 1874 the Bodland district was founded, to which Wierschy belonged.

In 1925 577 people lived in Wierschy, and in 1933 again 595 people. On April 27, 1936, the village was renamed Stoberbrück . On April 1, 1939, the village of Forstheim was incorporated into the Stoberbrück community. The Stoberbrück district is also founded on the same day . The first head of office was the mayor Johann Putzalla. In 1939 the community of Stoberbrück had 1218 inhabitants. Until 1945 the village belonged to the district of Rosenberg OS

As a result of the Second World War, Stoberbrück fell under Polish administration in 1945, like most of Silesia . Subsequently, the place was renamed Wierzchy and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 it was incorporated into the Opole Voivodeship. In 1999 Wierzchy came to the newly founded Powiat Kluczborski ( Kreuzburg district ).

Attractions

• The wayside chapel was built in the first half of the 19th century. It has a square plan and a hemispherical cavity. Here is a sculpture of St. John Nepomuk .
• Church of St. Peter and Paul - built from 1985 to 1990

Web links

Commons : Wierzchy (Wołczyn)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on December 23, 2018
2. ^ Heinrich Adamy : The Silesian place names, their origin and meaning - A picture from prehistory , Breslau, Priebatsch, 1889, p. 30
3. ^ Johann Georg Knie : Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, spots, cities and other places of the royal family. Preuss. Province of Silesia. Breslau 1845, p. 740.
4. ^ Bodland Territorial District
5. ↑ ^{a b} Administrative history - Kreis Rosenberg OS ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Territorial District Stoberbrück
7. ↑ Monuments in the Wołczyn Commune