Kościeliska

Kostellitz (Polish Kościeliska ) is a 700 people inhabit this village in the powiat Oleski the Opole Voivodeship in Poland. As it belongs to the mayor's office bilingual rural community Radlau at ( Radłów ).

  • 2.1 Population development
  • 4.1 External links
  • 4.2 footnotes

Geography

Geographical Location

The road Kostellitz village located in the northeast of the Opole Voivodeship, about 12 kilometers northeast of the county town Olesno (Rosenberg OS) and 45 km north-west of Częstochowa ( Czestochowa ) on the Silesian Upland, in the historical region of Upper Silesia.

History

Already in the 13th century was the sand pen in Wroclaw tithes from the village Kostellitz and since 1394 the existence of a separate parish with the pastor Stencla Czambor is detected. For the year 1250 the place name Otholici is narrated, in 1372 appeared the name Cothelicz on.

Originally, the village was part of the Duchy of Opole, which broke up in 1327 by Poland, Bohemian fief was in 1532 and fell to the Habsburgs. 1742 Kostellitz became Prussian with most of Silesia and 1816 the county Rosenberg OS assigned. The land belonged to the community Kostellitz District Bischdorf. A typhoid epidemic in 1847 gathered 43 residents then. In agrarian Kostellitz that in the possession of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV came in 1853, in 1844 a first brick school was built in 1924 it was in the forest house a first telephone and electricity in 1925.

As part of the National Socialist local renaming the place name Kostellitz that sounded the new rulers to Slavic, was changed in 1936 in Hedwig Stone. On January 19, 1945 Kostellitz was achieved by the Red Army and placed under Polish administration, which gave the place the name Kościeliska. 1973 Gromada Kostellitz was disbanded and joined the new community Radlau.

Since not all German inhabitants were expelled after the Second World War, was able to maintain a German minority in the area. Was in accordance with the Polish minority law of 2005, the municipality Radlau, the Kostellitz listened as Schulz Office, 2006 officially bilingual and led a 2007 bilingual place names.

Population Development

The population figures of Kostellitz after the relevant territorial status (including Gutsbezirk ):

Attractions

Oldest building in Kostellitz is a wooden hut in 1780. Historic grist wooden church of 1576 was translocated into the 30 km south to Gwoździany 1976. The present parish church of the Nativity of Mary was built in 1947. She took the interior of the old parish church, including a Mother of God Mercy image from the 16th century on.

References

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