ÅÄ…cznik, Opole Voivodeship
Lonschnik, Polish Łącznik is, with 1100 inhabitants, the largest village in the bilingual community Zülz ( Biała) in the powiat Prudnicki in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland
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Geography
The road Lonschnik village, around 25 kilometers south-west of Opole, 18 km north-east of Prudnik (New Town) and 8 km northeast of Zülz, at the Zülz in the historical region of Upper Silesia.
History
The founding of the village Lonschnik was probably towards the end of the 13th century at the intersection of roads Opole -Neustadt and Neisse- Krappitz. A parish Lonschnik was mentioned in 1335 and probably donated by the Earl of Proskau. The village was originally developed as Angersdorf around the church, later extended but irregular as street village. 1337 the village was mentioned as Lausinicz 1534 as Luntznickh.
In place of the old St. Mary's Church, which was demolished in 1718, joined in 1723 a new baroque.
Lonschnik fell in 1742 with most of Silesia to Prussia, and in 1818 the district of Neustadt OS assigned. Prior Lonschnik had the Opole circles belongs.
In 1784 the colony Dambine ( Dębina ) was 2 km southeast of the village hamlet founded as Lonschniks. At that time the name forms Lontschniz, Locznik and Longeznick specified for Lonschnik. In the 19th century Lontschnig and Loncznig were in use.
A Protestant cemetery was founded in 1870 by separation of a part of the Catholic cemetery.
1896 Lonschnik connection was to the railway line of the Neustadt- Gogoliner Railway Company. The Lonschnik station was located in the settlement Dambine.
In the plebiscite in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921 voted in Lonschnik 846 persons ( 92.2 %) to remain with Germany and 75 for the annexation to Poland. Lonschnik remained as the entire voting district Neustadt with the German Reich.
From 1933 the new Nazi rulers led by large-scale renaming of place names of Slavic origin. 1936 Lonschnik in meadow land O.S. renamed.
After the Second World War, the village in 1945 came as Łącznik under Polish administration and became the seat of a gmina ( in the years 1954 to 1973 this administrative unit was abolished in Poland). 1975 Lonschnik the community Zülz was assigned.
The area and especially the community Zülz are inhabited by a sizeable German minority. Since 2006, the community is officially bilingual, in 2008 additional official place names were introduced in German language.
Population Development
The population figures Lonschniks:
Attractions
The Catholic parish church of the Visitation was built in 1720-1723 and supplemented from 1874 to 1877 to the west facade with a transept and front tower. The nave is surmounted by a lunette ton, which is covered with frescoes of the Marie cycle by Franz Anton Sebastini of 1761. They were only in 1922 exposed again and revised. Similarly, the rococo altars were reconstructed in 1930. The baroque pulpit shows Jesus as the sower.