Opalenica
Opalenica ( German: Opalenitza ) is a town of 9,000 inhabitants in the powiat Nowotomyski, Greater Poland Voivodeship in Poland. Opalenica is around 37 km from Poznań. The municipality borders the following municipalities Opalenica: Nowy Tomyśl, Kuślin ( county Nowy Tomyśl ), Duszniki ( county Szamotuły ), Buk ( district Poznań), and Granowo Grodzisk Wielkopolski. ( County Grodzisk ).
First mentioned in writing the place was in 1393rd The city rights were granted Opalenica, which was owned by Ticz Bar de Opalenicza, a representative of a Pomeranian knight family at that time, 1399-1401.
1793-1807 came Opalenica due to the second partition of Poland temporarily under Prussian rule. Due to the Congress of Vienna in 1815 came Opalenica again to Prussia, in 1918 it was returned to Poland.
Opalenica is twinned with the Dutch Zevenbergen and Konigslutter and Storkow in Germany.
By 2010, found every year in Opalenica the Remes Cup, the largest youth soccer tournament in Poland instead.
The national football team of Portugal has opted for the hotel REMES in Opalenica as his tribe from home during the 2012 European Football Championship.
Gmina
For urban and rural community Opalenica include the following locations:
Structures
- The late Gothic St. Matthias church with a separate bell tower was built in the early 17th century.
- The St. Joseph's Church was built in 1900 in neo-Gothic style for the evangelical community, designed by Ludwig von Tiedemann and taken over in 1945 by the Catholic Church.
- The cemetery chapel was built in the first half of the 17th century Mannerist style.
- The city hall was built in 1897 in Neo-Renaissance style.
Church of St. Joseph
Cemetery chapel
Town hall
Personalities
- Edelgard Wendorf (* 1944), German handball coach and handball goalkeeper