Szydłowiec Śląski
Szydłowiec Slaski ( German: Schedlau ) is a village in the Polish urban and rural community Niemodlin ( Falkenberg OS) in the powiat Opolski the Opole Voivodeship.
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Geography
The Upper Silesian village Szydłowiec Slaski is located 3 kilometers north of Niemodlin and 20 km west of Opole on the Steinau. The place belongs to the Opole Voivodeship, in the western part of it is located. Szydłowiec Slaski is connected to the A4 motorway - the next junction is 9 km away.
History
Ellgoth that place in 1241 and the invasion of the Golden Horde should have been called. According to legend, many skulls have been found in the recolonisation of the destroyed town, which is why the place was henceforth called Schedlau. Since 1379 Schedlau is detected as a village with church. 1318 the village as Schidalowicz, 1447 Elgot Dipoldi and 1551 mentioned as Schedlau documented.
Schedlau was then bohemian, fell in 1526 to the Habsburg and 1742 to Prussia.
In 1533 came Schedlau the property of Niklas Pueckler of Groditz, should be closely linked to the family of Pueckler the history of the place in the following 400 years, until 1945. Thus the castle of the noble family was built in 1570 Schedlau, which was rebuilt several times in the following years. The Pücklers it were, who introduced the Reformation in the town and 1616 instigated by Hans Pueckler and his wife Helen of Sedlnitzky ( Sedelnitzki ) the stone Salvator church in place of the old wooden church. As a result of the Imperial Edict of Restitution in 1629 the church had to be returned to the Catholics again, although the population remained largely Protestant. So were Catholic in 1830 by the 389 inhabitants 55. The church is still in Schedlau branch of Falkenberg, the evangelicals were there the parish.
Devastation brought by the Thirty Years' War, so that the castle was rebuilt in 1650. His final, neo-Gothic shape was completed in 1854 Erdmann III. of Pueckler.
1761 a Protestant school was established. In 1888 Schedlau with a railway branch line about Falkenberg connection to Opole. On the importance Schedlaus as a small country town in the district Falkenberg OS However, this changed nothing.
With the end of the Second World War, the Red Army reached on February 7, 1945 Schedlau, which was, however, captured only on 17 March after the village had been fought for five weeks and the front had passed north of the village. As a result of the fighting, a chapel was destroyed near the church and burned down the castle, which was demolished later. Schedlau Polish administration was assumed that renamed the place in Szydłowiec and the remaining German population distribution until 1946. The addition Slaski ( Silesian = ) has prevailed over time to distinguish it from other places of this name. The place has sunk into total insignificance after the Second World War: he is now only a little over 100 inhabitants, train traffic was stopped, pulled down the station building.
Population Development
Attractions
The village church of 1616 / 17th See village church ( Szydłowiec Slaski ).
Furthermore, located in the vicinity of the place a 570 years old oak, the oak Pueckler. It is equipped with a height of 25 meters and a circumference of 8.65 m one of the largest in the Opole region.