Winau (Opole)

Winau ; Winów
	Winau ; Winów
	Winau ; Winów
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	District-free city
District of:	Opole
Geographic location :	50 ° 38 ' N , 17 ° 54' E Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '0 " N , 17 ° 54' 0" E
Height :	194 m npm
Residents :	713 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	46-060
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OP (OPO)
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 45 Wieluń - Racibórz
	Ext. 414 Opole - Prudnik
Next international airport :	Katowice-Pyrzowice
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Winau (also Winow , Polish Winów ) is a district of the independent city of Opole in the Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

Winau is located in the historical region of Upper Silesia in the Opole region . The place is about three kilometers southwest of the city center of Opole.

Winau lies in the Nizina Śląska ( Silesian Plain ) within the Równina Opolska ( Opole Plain ). Winau is located on a 194 m high mountain, which is a remnant of the last ice age. It forms the highest vantage point around Opole. The Oder flows east of the village . The state road Droga krajowa 45 and the voivodship road Droga wojewódzka 414 run through the village .

Neighboring places

In the north, Winau borders on the Opole district of Wójtowa Wieś . To the west is the village of Dziekanstwo , to the south Gorek and to the southeast Follwark . The village is located on the Droga krajowa 45 national road .

history

Queen Luisen Höhe 1934

Panorama with church

Houses at ul.Wodna during the 1997 flood

The village was first mentioned in 1412 as Winów . Even before it was first mentioned, people lived on this hill. According to traditional stories, it was a holy mountain in pagan times. In 1532 the place was mentioned as Winow . In the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) the village was burned down. After the First Silesian War in 1742, Winau and most of Silesia fell to Prussia .

After the reorganization of the province of Silesia which belonged rural community Winau from 1816 to district Opole in the administrative district of Opole . In 1845 there was a farm and 33 houses in the village. In the same year 243 people lived in Winau, ten of them Protestants. In 1861 the place had 225 inhabitants.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 73 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 91 for Poland. In the years before the Second World War , the village was a popular destination for the people of Opole . The Villa Duchess Luise on the former "Königin-Luisen-Höhe" was the number one excursion destination in the area. It housed a restaurant. Outside there was a park, a toboggan run and a slope for skiing. In 1933 there were 415 people in Winau, and in 1939 there were 615 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Opole .

In 1945 the previously German town came to Poland , was renamed Winów and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . After the war, just under 300 people lived in the village.

During the flood of the century in 1997 on the Oder, parts of the village were also flooded. Most of the houses were spared because they are on the slope. The houses in the lower areas of the village, especially at ul. Wodna and ul. Krapkowicka, were flooded and some were 2 meters under water. In 1999 the place came to the re-established Powiat Opolski . Since 2002 the village of Winau has been part of the "Rural Renewal" program, which promotes viticulture in the village. In 2006 Winau was able to get 3rd place in the competition “The most beautiful village in Opole”.

On April 30, 2010, the place was also given the official German place name Winau. Since June 2012 the place-name signs have also been bilingual. Until 2016, the Upper Silesian village was in the Proskau municipality in the Powiat Opolski (Opole district). On January 1, 2017, Winau was incorporated into the city of Opole. Between 2018 and 2019 ul.Proszwkowska was renovated and expanded.

Attractions

Holy Spirit Church

Chapel of the Schoenstatt Movement

Holy Spirit Church

The Roman Catholic Holy Spirit Church (Polish Kościół Ducha Świętego ) is located in the center of Winau on Ulica Ogrodowa 7. The church was built between 1983 and 1987 on the initiative of Pastor H. Skomudka. The own parish of the Holy Spirit was founded in 1987. In the garden of the church there is a chapel belonging to the Schoenstatt Movement .

Villa Duchess Luise

The Villa Duchess Luise (Polish: Willa Księżnej Luizy ) on the former Luisenhöhe is located in the northern part of the village on Ulica stara Droga . The villa was built by the Pietrzyków family at the beginning of the 20th century and provided with a small landscaped park with ponds and paths. Up until the Second World War, the house was mainly used as a coffee shop and sports shop, and the entire Luisenhöhe was a popular excursion destination. Today the villa is privately owned.