Wilamova

Wilamowa Alt-Wilmsdorf
	Wilamowa Alt-Wilmsdorf
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Nyski
Gmina :	Paczków
Geographic location :	50 ° 27 '  N , 17 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '36 "  N , 17 ° 4' 43"  E
Height :	235 m npm
Residents :	310 (December 31, 2018)
Postal code :	48-370
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	ONY
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 46 Kłodzko - Szczekociny
Next international airport :	Wroclaw Airport

Wilamowa (German Alt-Wilmsdorf ) is a village in the Paczków municipality in Poland . It is located in the powiat Nyski in the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

The street village of Wilamowa is located in the southwest of the historical region of Upper Silesia . The place is about six kilometers southeast of the municipal seat of Paczków , about 20 kilometers southwest of the district town Nysa and about 75 kilometers southwest of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Wilamowa lies in the Przedgórze Sudeckie (Sudeten foothills) within the Przedgórze Paczkowskie (Patschkauer foothills) . The state road Droga krajowa 46 runs north of the town center . Jezioro Otmuchowskie ( Ottmachauer Reservoir ) is located northwest of the village .

District

District of Wilamowa is Książe ( Prince Vorwerk ).

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns are Stary Paczków ( Alt Patschkau ) in the northwest , Ścibórz ( Stübendorf ) in the east, Trzeboszowice ( Schwammelwitz ) in the south and Ujeździec ( Geseß ) in the west.

history

Church of Our Lady on Mount Carmel

Village party with wayside chapel

The place is first mentioned in 1284 as Wilamouici . In the work Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from the years 1295-1305, the place is mentioned for the first time as Wilhelmi villa . It belonged to the episcopal principality Neisse ( diocese land ). In 1310 the village was owned by Hermann von Werburk. The place name is derived from the founder of the place, the village of Wilhelm . In 1368 the place is mentioned as Wilhelmsdorf . In 1580 the place had 12 hooves.

It was only after the establishment of Neu-Wilmsdorf in the Reichensteiner Mountains in the 16th century that it was given the prefix "Alt".

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Alt-Wilmsdorf came with most of Silesia to Prussia .

After the secularization of the Principality of Neisse in 1810, the secular rule of the Breslau bishops ended. The reorganization of Silesia 1813 Alt-Wilmsdorf was until then to the district Breslau belonged to the Upper Silesian Region Oppeln incorporated. From 1816 it belonged to the newly established district of Neisse , with which it remained connected until 1945. In 1843 a farmer built his own church and donated a farm to support them. In 1845 there was a Scholtsei , a church and 35 other houses in the village . In the same year, 209 people lived in Alt-Wilmsdorf, one of them Protestant. In 1855 214 people lived in Alt-Wilmsdorf. In 1860 the place received a school. In 1864 a school house was built in the village. In 1865 there was a Scholtisei , eight farmers, three gardeners and five cottages as well as an inn, a water mill and a parish church. Together with the rural communities Geseß and Alt Patschkau and the homonymous manor districts, Alt Patschkau belonged to the Geseß district from 1874 . In 1885 Alt-Wilmsdorf had 264 inhabitants.

In 1929 the village school had 48 students. In 1933 there were 248 people in Alt-Wilmsdorf. In 1937 the place had a construction shop, an inn, a general store, two blacksmiths, two tailors, a shoemaker and an electricity cooperative. The village had an aqueduct. In 1939 Alt-Wilmsdorf had 237 people.

As a result of the Second World War , Alt-Wilmsdorf fell to Poland in 1945, was renamed Wilamowa and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. The German population was expelled . In 1950 it was incorporated into the Opole Voivodeship . 1999 saw the re-established Powiat Nyski . In 2010 the place had 345 inhabitants.

Residents and households

• 1784: 26 households
• 1845: 209 inhabitants, 35 houses
• 1895: 303 inhabitants, 54 households
• 1939: 237 inhabitants, 61 households
• 2010: 345 inhabitants (together with Książe)

Attractions

• The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady on Mount Carmel (Polish: Kościół Matki Bożej Szkaplerznej ) was built in 1843. The building was listed as a historical monument in 2014.
• Stone wayside chapel
• Wooden wayside cross

societies

• Volunteer Fire Brigade OPS Wilanowa

Personalities

• Jerzy Maćków (* 1961), political scientist

Web links

Commons : Wilamowa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Graport o stanie Gminy Paczków za 2018 rok , accessed on May 3, 2020
2. ^ ^{A b} H. Markgraf, Wilhelm Schulte: Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis (=  Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae . Volume XIV ). Breslau 1889 (Latin, dokumentyslaska.pl [accessed May 2, 2020]).
3. ↑ Bernhard W. Scholz: The spiritual principality of Neisse . 2011 Böhlau Verlag Cologne Weimar Vienna, ISBN 978-3-412-20628-4 , 1998, p. 339
4. ↑ 1254-2004. 750 years of Patschkau. The history of the town of Patschkau in Silesia. Edited by Mohr Hans-Georg and Leo Schiller. Osnabrück 2004. p. 129
5. ↑ ^{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. 747.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Felix Triest : Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865, p. 1009
7. ^ Territorial district of Patschkau
8. ↑ AGoFF circle Neisse
9. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. neisse.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
10. ↑ Visit me at Patschkau. In memory of the Silesian town of Patschkau. Edited by Leo Schiller. Osnabrück: Self-published 1999. p. 249
11. ↑ ^{a b} Population for Wilamowa and Książe. Source: Główny Urząd Statystyczny, Portret miejscowości statystycznych w gminie Paczków (powiat nyski, województwo opolskie) w 2010 r. Online query
12. ^ Monument register of the Opole Voivodeship