Opawa, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Opawa ( German Oppau ) is a district of the rural community Lubawka ( Liebau ) in the powiat Kamiennogórski in the Province of Lower Silesia in Poland.

Geography

Opawa located in the southern Giant Mountains on the Oppau ( Opawa ), a left tributary of the Bober. It is reached via a spur road from Miszkowice, which ends in Niedamirów. Neighboring towns are Jarkowice ( Hermsdorf ) in the north, and Miszkowice Paprotki ( Urban Hartau ) in the Northeast, the West and Lubawka Niedamirów in the southwest. Across the border to the Czech Republic, which runs in an east, south and west, is located in the south Žacléř. It is reached via the border crossing Lubawka - Královec.

History

The area around Oppau first belonged to Bohemia and arrived in the 13th century Duke Bolko I. Together with the Duchy Schweidnitz got it in 1368 to the crown of Bohemia and belonged to Buchenwald, Tschöpsdorf and Kunz village loan basis as Witwengut of Marita of Se ( i) dlitz, a governess of the Duchess Agnes. 1378 sold Marita's sons Hans Schone bird and Kuncze Hudner Oppau and the other mentioned localities with all the possessions and rights to the Cistercian monastery Grüssau. To cover the Turks had control in 1558 Oppau be pledged with Kunz village, Tschöpsdorf and Buchenwald. During the pledge period Lutheranism developed in the villages. As of 1568 the Lutheran preacher John Hintzius worked as a pastor in Oppau, who was previously in Trautenau. 1570 granted Abbot Caspar Oppauer the mayor the right to develop the coal camp discovered.

After the First Silesian War Oppau fell in 1742 together with Silesia to Prussia. 1810, the monastery was secularized. After the reorganization of Prussia in 1815 Oppau belonged to the province of Silesia and was from 1816 the county Landeshut incorporated, with which it was connected until 1945. It formed its own country and community was since 1874 the seat of the administrative district Oppau to the (now Szczepanów ) included the rural communities Kunz village (now Niedamirów ) and Tschöpsdorf and Gutsbezirk Oppau -Kunz village. 1939 lived 566 inhabitants in Oppau.

As a result of World War II Oppau 1945 as almost all of Silesia fell to Poland and was renamed in Opawa. The German population was expelled. The new inhabitants were partly displaced persons from eastern Poland. 1975-1998 belonged to Opawa Voivodeship Jelenia Gora.

Attractions

• The Catholic Church of St. Hedwig Branch was built 1687-1692 on the site of an earlier building as a chapel, 1794-1795 converted into a church and rebuilt after a fire in 1905 again. It has a rich Baroque interior. The architectural altar with orders created before 1785 Grüssau sculptor Joseph Anton Lachel, from whose workshop probably the pulpit, the three towers organ prospectus and the confessional with a crucifixion scene in the crown come. The main altarpiece St. Hedwig is from 1863; it was painted by J. C. Sound. The late Gothic baptismal font dates from the late 16th century. The baptismal font is decorated with a coat of arms of the abbey Cistercian Grüssau.
• There are three epitaphs from the 17-18 on the outer walls of the church. Century.
• The former Schulzengut is in a poor state of repair.

Branch Church of St. Hedwig