Opawica
Opawica ( German Troplowitz, schlonsakisch: Troplowice, Czech: Opavice ) is a village in the Polish urban and rural community Głubczyce in the Opole Voivodeship. Together with the place Opavice, is separated from the Opawica by the Polish- Czech border, he made the city formerly Troplowitz.
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History
The first mention of the village dates from the year Oppawicz 1256th The place in time belonging to Moravia Troppauer country came with the creation of the Duchy of Opava Silesia and belonged to 1377-1410 the Duchy Jägerndorf. The documented since 1377 customs station on Goldoppa meant that in 1400 south of the village was a small town, that the privileges of a mountain town enjoyed. Its market law was confirmed in 1410 by the Duke Troppauer Přemysl. In the same year came Oppawicz together with the rule Geppersdorf in the possession of those of Bladen.
With the founding of the city took place in 1492 Olbersdorf three kilometers north-west of Troplowitz the development opportunity of the city was severely restricted. By 1550 the Reformation was introduced in the city. With the transition of power to the family of Haugwitz during the Thirty Years' War was recatholicisation.
In 1700 Geppersdorf and Troplowitz came to the Counts of Sedlnitzky Choltitz.
The conquest of the greater part of Silesia by Prussia in 1742 led to the demarcation through the town. The largest part of town with square and parish church and part of the village were Prussian. The districts right of Goldoppa remained with Austria.
Through this division, the city fell Troplowitz, which had about 1,280 inhabitants and the privilege for three years had markets into unimportance, and the population migrated from the now remote place on the border from. Even in the 18th century Troplowitz lost its city charter. At the beginning of the 19th century market town had sunk to a rural community. In the second third of the 19th century, the community learned from the damask weaving again a slight upturn, but this did not last long. The places Städtel Troplowitz and village Troplowitz were combined in the 1930s.
The remaining part of the village in Austria named to distinguish it from the Prussian part as a village Tropplowitz.
Population Development
1825 lived 483 inhabitants in Troplowitz of which 274 are in the market town Städtel Troplowitz and 209 in the village Troplowitz.
Sons and daughters of Troplowitz
- Henry Mosler (1841-1920), American painter