Zębowice, Opole Voivodeship
Zembowitz (Polish Zębowice ) is a village and capital of the homonymous country church with around 4,000 inhabitants in the powiat Oleski (Kreis Rosenberg ) of the Opole Voivodeship in Poland. Zembowitz is officially bilingual with the highest percentage of members of the German minority in Poland and since 2007 with 44% of the Polish community.
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History
The Catholic Parish of the Assumption was first mentioned in 1447. In the plebiscite in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921 182 voters voted to remain in Germany and 250 for Poland. In Good Zembowitz 147 people voted for Germany 119 for Poland. Zembowitz remained with the German Reich. On January 9, 1935 the town was renamed in Föhrendorf. By 1945, the place was in the district of Rosenberg OS.
In 1945 the previously German place under Polish administration, was renamed Zębowice and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. 1950 Zembowitz part of the Opole Voivodeship and 1999 of the re-established powiat Opolski. On 19 November 2008, the City also received the official German place names Zembowitz.
Community
The rural community Zembowitz divided into the following districts:
- Free Kadlub / Kadlúb Wolny
- Kneja / Knieja
- Lenke / Łąka
- Oschietzko / Osiecko
- Poscholkau / Poczołków
- Pruskau / Prusków
- Wheel / Radawie
- Schiedlisk / Siedliska (actually German free - Pipa )
- Zembowitz / Zębowice
In addition, the municipality covers more villages, who hold not the status of a hamlet ( sołectwo ) as Borowiany ( Borowian ) Koschütz / Kosice, Nowa Wies ( Neudorf- Pruskau ) and Radawka ( colony Radawka ).
Population
In the last Polish census 2002 Zembowitz was next Czissek and small Strehlitz the only community in Poland, which is mostly inhabited by Germans.