Wołczyn

Wołczyn
	Wołczyn
	Wołczyn
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Kluczborski
Gmina :	Wołczyn
Geographic location :	51 ° 1 ' N , 18 ° 3' E Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '0 " N , 18 ° 3' 0" E
Height :	172 m npm
Residents :	5959 (December 31, 2016)
Postal code :	46-250
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OKL
Economy and Transport
Street :	DK 42 Namysłów - Starachowice
Rail route :	Kluczbork – Wrocław
Next international airport :	Wroclaw
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Wołczyn [ ˈvɔʊ̯ʧɨn ] ( German Konstadt ; formerly Constadt ) is a small town in the north of the Opole Voivodeship and capital of the town-and-country municipality of the same name .

geography

Wołczyn is located in the northwestern part of Upper Silesia in the Kreuzburger Land in the Silesian Lowlands . The city is located around 12 kilometers northwest of the district town of Kluczbork ( Kreuzburg in Upper Silesia ) and 46 kilometers northeast of the voivodeship capital Opole .

Wołczyn is surrounded by the Brinnitze (Brynica), a tributary of the Stober . The national road Droga krajowa 42 runs through the village . Wołczyn is located on the Kluczbork – Wrocław railway with the Wołczyn stop .

history

Theresia von Lisieux Church

Neo-Gothic Church of the Conception of Mary

From a document from Duke Heinrich III. von Schlesien from January 22, 1261 it emerges that the place previously called "large forest" was given Neumarkt law and was henceforth called Fürstenthal . In 1293 it was mentioned as an art town, then in 1294 as Cunzinstadt . In the north of the city, at the location of today's evangelical church, there was a robber baron's castle , which was taken and razed on January 17, 1461 by Duke Conrad X the White of Oels and Breslau citizens .

In 1564 the Reformation took hold and Konstadt became Protestant.

In 1742, the city and most of Silesia fell to Prussia and in 1816 it was assigned to the Kreuzburg OS district, which until 1820 belonged to the Breslau district and then to the Opole district of Upper Silesia .

In 1845 the city of Konstadt consisted of a total of 132 houses. In the suburbs there were 41 mostly wooden houses. In the same year 1,449 people lived in Konstadt, of which 1,187 were Protestants, 102 were Catholic and 160 were Jewish. The Jewish community built a synagogue around 1850. In 1868 Konstadt was connected to the Upper Silesian Railway with the Kluczbork – Wrocław line . In 1890 there were 2525 people in Konstadt.

In 1904 Konstadt received a gas system and the first street lighting. The hospital was built in 1912. In 1933 there were 3616 people in Konstadt, and in 1939 there were 3779 people. The local synagogue was set on fire during the Reichspogromnacht on November 9, 1938. The remains of the building were removed a little later. At the end of January 1945 the first acts of war reached the city. After the Red Army marched in on January 21, 1945, around 40% of the city was destroyed.

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

Population development

The population of Konstadt:

year	Residents
1775	805
1782	783
1810	1,075
1817	1,035
1824	1,169
1830	1,321
1844	1,449

year	Residents
1852	1,584
1861	1,723
1890	2,525
1910	3,644
1933	3,616
1939	3,779

politics

Town twinning

Haßloch (Germany)

Attractions

East side of the ring

Theresia von Lisieux Church

The Catholic Theresia von Lisieux Church was built between 1770 and 1799 as a Protestant church. A church was mentioned in the same place as early as 1315. The late baroque hall church was partly built from the stones of the former Konstädter Schloss. In 1831 the bell tower was built on the west side. Between 1899 and 1901 the nave was extended to the east. The expansion was based on a design by H. Poelzig. Inside there is a rococo organ that was built in 1784.

Church of the Conception of Mary

The Roman Catholic Church of the Conception of the Virgin Mary at ul. Kościelna was built between 1859 and 1862 in neo-Gothic style. The leading architect was the Wroclaw architect Alexis Langer . In 1917 some of the bells were melted down.

More Attractions

Evangelical-Augsburg Church at ul. Byczyńska

Jewish cemetery at ul. Byczyńska

Ring with houses from the 18th and 19th centuries

Historic water tower

city Park

Entrance building of the Wołczyn station

traffic

Wołczyn station building

Wołczyn has a connection to the railway network with the stops Wołczyn and Wierzbica Górna on the Kalety – Wrocław railway line.

local community

The town-and-country municipality Wołczyn includes, in addition to the eponymous town, other villages with a total of 13,785 inhabitants (2016).

sons and daughters of the town

Johann Wolffgang Heydt (* around 1700), German traveler to Southeast Asia, author of the most recent geographical and topographical show place of Africa and East India, which was important for the Dutch East India Company [...], Wilhermsdorf 1744

Christian Moritz Alexander von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1732–1794), Prussian major general

Emil Luebeck (1848–1905), German ancient historian and high school teacher

Helmut Hofmann (1907–2006), German architect and artist

Frida Brock-Oley (* 1910), German politician and women's functionary