Gościce

Gościce ( German Gostitz, 1936-1945 Gostal ) is a village in the municipality Paczków ( Patschkau ) in Poland. It is located in powiat Nyski in the Opole Voivodeship.

Geography

The Waldhufendorf in Frankish form of settlement on the northern edge of the Reichensteiner Mountains ( Gory Złote / Rychlebské Mountains ) is located about three kilometers south of Paczków. The steadily rising village street - 250 meters at the beginning of the village - ends after a further three kilometers at the "Kaiser Street ," the border with the Czech Republic - 300 m.

History

Settlers from Lower Franconia founded the village of Gostitz both sides of the creek Tarnow - Tarnow later, then called Gos - according to German economic model. Probably Gostitz was founded together with Patschkau to 1254. His first documentary mention is made of the place but it was only in 1300 in Breslau episcopal recording in which he is still referred to as Gostzeczna. The actual origin of the village is probably due to a Slavic settlement.

Gostitz belonged to the Habsburg possessions in Silesia ( Lands of the Bohemian Crown) and was in the 16th century part of the Mediatfürstentums Neisse- Grottkau (Nysa - Grodków ).

In the Thirty Years' War, Swedish troops laid waste the town ( 1641/42 ).

In the First Silesian War, Austria lost large parts of Silesia to Prussia. The new border ran along the mountains along and followed the route of the old imperial road that leads from the rich stone over White Water, White creek after Jauernig. She told the old, historical Gostitz into two approximately equal parts. The now belonging to Prussia proportion was secularized in 1810, the remaining share in Austria (Upper Gostitz / Horni Hoštice ) was 1918/19, to Czechoslovakia.

The population was characterized as generally in the diocese Neisser country, Catholic. So Gostitz has in relation to the small population, a relatively large parish church, dedicated to the patron Saint Nicholas. It was built in 1326-1370 as a fortified church. The Baroque appearance was the church in the 18th century.

On August 18, 1936, the village name was changed from Gostitz in Gostal. Only after the end of World War II Gostal was occupied by Soviet troops and handed over to Poland in the summer of 1945. The German population was expelled.

Population

1784: 475 inhabitants 1845: 650 inhabitants 1895: 522 inhabitants 1936: 489 inhabitants 2009: 466 inhabitants.

In 1937 there were five gardener places two mills, nine smallholdings, 14 farmsteads, a baker, a butcher, two guest houses, four general stores, a saddler, blacksmith shop, two tailors, shoemakers three and two carpenters.