Sudice (Opava District)

Sudice ( German Zauditz ) is a municipality in Okres Opava in the Czech Republic. It belongs to the Moravian-Silesian Region.

Geography

Sudice is located in the northern tip of Hultshin Land at the Bilawoda, directly on the border with Poland. Polish neighbor is the small one kilometers away Peterwitz.

History

Zauditz was first mentioned in 1327. At this time, the village was owned by the Dominican monastery Ratibor. The village belonged to the Duchy of Opava and arrived after his graduation in 1377 to the Duchy Jägerndorf.

Along with the neighboring Thröm it formed a German language island, while a Slavicization was in the other towns in the north of the Hultshin Land by the influx mährischsprachiger population.

Since 1533 city rights have been documented Zauditz; it is assumed that these were awarded in the 15th century. Zauditz was a Mediatstädtchen. Peter Oderski of Liderau, who died in 1571, was the first landlord, whose name is known. The owners of the town changed often. Among them were in the 18th century by the Baron von Henneberg, 1816 followed Ludwig Freiherr von Bibran. From 1833 to 1839 possessed Eduard Lichnowsky Zauditz before it came into the possession of the Belgian House Lejeune and 1856 of Anselm Freiherr von Rothschild.

After the First Silesian War in 1742 Zauditz fell to Prussia, which it found itself in a boundary layer, the economically negative impact. In the 18th century it lost its city charter and was downgraded at the beginning of the 19th century from the market town for the rural community. In the Prussian district reform of 1816, the classification of the community who previously belonged to the circle Leobschutz, the district Ratibor. 1920, Zauditz Czechoslovakia, making it still found itself in a boundary layer. East and west of the old border with Germany and just lay in the north Thröm.

In 1938, the reincorporation into Germany and the county Ratibor. After the Second World War, it was incorporated in 1945 Czechoslovakia.

1993 was created with the border crossing Sudice - Pietraszyn ( Kleinpeter joke) a road link to the Polish Racibórz. 2007, the border crossing point has been lifted.

Population Development

1799: 767 inhabitants 1825: 927 1855: 1201 1861: 1186 1905: 1,142 1939: 869

Partner communities

References

753448
de