Pietrowice Wielkie

Pietrowice Wielkie ( German United Peterwitz ) is a village in the powiat Raciborski the Polish province of Silesia. It has about 2,400 inhabitants and is the capital of the homonymous country church with about 7,000 inhabitants.

  • 5.1 people
  • 7.1 External links
  • 7.2 footnotes

Geography

Pietrowice Wielkie is located nine kilometers west of the county town Racibórz ( Ratibor ) and about 65 km south-east of Opole on the Zinna in the historic Upper Silesia. The southwestern boundary of the municipality is at the same time represents the Polish- Czech border

History

The village of Great Peterwitz was created in the 13th century as Angersdorf the German Ostsiedlung. 1273, the village was first mentioned in documents and belonged with around Katscher as a gift of the Bohemian King Ottokar II the diocese of Olomouc, whose bishop Bruno of castle founded a proven since 1281 Parochie United Peterwitz. The Olomouc bishops were replaced in 1557 by the noble family of Gaschin as landlords that the manor large Peterwitz owned until 1877. Ecclesiastical remained large Peterwitz contrast to 1945, assigned to the diocese of Olomouc and linguistically, the inhabitants spoke German and Moravian, the compounds of the Upper Silesian village to Moravia remained.

1742 United Peterwitz in 1816 but in 1818 associated with Prussian and the district Leobschutz, shortly after the district Ratibor in the district of Opole. 1855 received major Peterwitz that had to have no big industry up to a flax factory, with the state branch line Ratibor ( Racibórz ) - Leobschutz ( Głubczyce ) connection to the railway network. In 1896, the narrow-gauge railway United Peterwitz - Katscher on their operation.

With the end of World War II United Peterwitz was placed under Polish administration and renamed Pietrowice Wielkie. Since not all German inhabitants fled or were expelled could keep an ethnic German minority in the area. The passenger service was discontinued in April 2000.

Population Development

The numbers of inhabitants of Great Peterwitz after the relevant field status:

Attractions

  • The local Catholic parish church of St. Vitus, Modestus and Creszentia ( Sw kościół. Wita, Modesta i Krescencji ) and the surrounding churchyard wall, dates from the 16th century, the Baroque facade tower was built in 1822. 1935 was followed by fundamental changes, as the choir canceled in favor of a new, short transept and in its old form extended to the earlier three-bay nave was re- grown. East of the church is the Baroque Nepomuk statue from the 18th century.
  • The cruciform church was probably built around 1667 under the Rev. Martin Mosler south of the village on the road to Ratchet. To this shot wooden church at that time was the Outbound village Lerch field. The located inside the miraculous image of the crucifixion was the destination of many pilgrimages, so that the building was extended in 1743. On the church square space which is outside lined with colonnades and in the West has an extension for porch and organ loft, the slightly lower, double-ended choir hits. Inside can be found next to the Baroque high altar with the picture of grace also two baroque altars dating from the 18th century with paintings of the Madonna of the Rosary and Saint Anne. A beam of Triumph Cross references an old, written in Latin, German and Moravian inscription on the plenary indulgence in this church on the Feast of Exaltation of the Cross, the. , At the instigation of his brother Anselm Kotterbas by Pope Pius VI 1783 approved. On the other side of the street there is the neo-Gothic chapel fountain.

In addition, still make the old farmhouses dating from the 19th century Frankish farmstead layout consideration, which are lined up with their gables on the long village green and each connected with round arches.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Paul Schebesta (1887-1967), German theologian, missionary and ethnologist
  • Paweł Newerla ( born 1933), Polish lawyer and author of German origin
  • Emil Feist (* 1924), German actor and clown

Community

The rural commune ( gmina wiejska ) Pietrowice Wielkie divided into the following districts ( sołectwo ):

  • Amandów ( Amandhof )
  • Cyprzanów ( Janowitz; 1936-45: Janken )
  • Gródczanki ( ratchet )
  • Kornice ( Kornitz )
  • Krowiarki ( Prussian Krawarn; until 1914 Polish Krawarn )
  • Lekartów ( Lekartow; 1936-45: Mettich )
  • Maków ( Makau )
  • Pawłów ( Pawlau; 1936-45: Paul Basic )
  • Pietrowice Wielkie ( United Peterwitz )
  • Samborowice ( Schammerwitz; 1936-45: Schammerau )
  • Żerdziny ( Schardzin; 1936-45: Hohenau )

The hamlet Pulow ( Paulshof ), Turmasy ( Thurmas ) and Wojnowice ( Neuhof ) are associated with the above districts.

Population

To date, three population groups living in the community: Poland, German and Silesian.

* The results of the 2011 census have been corrected several times, in the community but are now more than 20 percent of German life. This could be the community that enshrined in the Polish minority rights law, such as to introduce bilingual place-name signs.

Partnerships

The community Pietrowice Wielkie has partnerships with Sudice ( Zauditz ) in the Czech Republic and the Hessian Unterliederbach am Taunus.

References

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