Zowade

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Zowade
Zawada
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Zowade Zawada (Poland)
Zowade Zawada
Zowade
Zawada
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Prudnik
Gmina : Upper Logau
Geographic location : 50 ° 24 '  N , 17 ° 49'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '58 "  N , 17 ° 49' 2"  E
Residents :
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OPR
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Katowice



Chapel with a bell tower
Townscape
Townscape

Zowade (Polish: Zawada ) is a village in Upper Silesia . The village is located in the municipality of Oberglogau ( Głogówek ) in the powiat Prudnicki (Neustadt OS district) in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

Zowade is eight kilometers northwest of the municipality of Oberglogau , 20 kilometers northeast of the district town of Prudnik (Neustadt OS) and 31 kilometers south of the voivodeship capital Opole (Opole).

The Mühlgraben, a tributary of the Zülz, flows west of the village .

Districts

The hamlets Golschowitz ( Golczowice ), Mutzkau ( Mucków ), Neuvorwerk ( Bud ) and Syßlau ( Sysłów ) belong to Zowade .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Zowade are Schartowitz ( Czartowice ) and the hamlet Golschowitz ( Golczowice ) in the west, the hamlet Syßlau ( Sysłów ) in the northwest , the hamlets Neuvorwerk ( Bud ) and Schreibersdorf ( Pisarzowice ) in the northeast, Kerpen ( Kierpień ) in the south Blaschewitz ( Błażejowice Dolne ) and in the southwest of the hamlets Mutzkau ( Mucków ) and Polish Müllmen ( Mionów ).

history

In 1784 Zowade, which belonged to the Count von Schafgotsch, had ten gardeners and a farm. In 1818 Zowade had ten gardeners and a farm. A school was built in the 1820s. In 1865 the place had nine gardeners and two cottagers. At that time the school had 155 students.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 441 voters voted to remain in Germany and 112 to belong to Poland, in the manor district of Zowade 129 people voted for Germany and one for Poland. Zowade remained with the German Empire . In 1933 there were 841 inhabitants. On June 15, 1936 the place was renamed Lichten OS . In 1939 the place had 867 inhabitants. Until 1945 the place was in the district of Neustadt OS

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Zawada and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship and since 1999 it has belonged to the powiat Prudnicki . On April 22, 2009 , German was introduced as the second official language in the municipality of Oberglogau , to which Zowade belongs. On December 1, 2009, the place was also given the official German place name Zowade .

Attractions

  • Path chapel with bell tower from the 18th century
  • crossroads

societies

Web links

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

Footnotes

  1. ^ Johann Ernst Tramp: Additions to the Description of Silesia, Volume 2 , Brieg 1783
  2. ^ Geographical-statistical handbook on Silesia and the County of Glatz, Volume 2 ; Breslau and Jauer 1818
  3. ↑ Cf. Felix Triest: Topographisches Handbuch von Oberschlesien , Breslau 1865
  4. ^ Website of the municipality , accessed in June 2012
  5. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of January 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Neustadt district in Upper Silesia (Polish Prudnik). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).