Czarnowąsy
District of Opole in Opole Voivodeship, Poland
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Czarnowąsy [t͡ʂarnɔˈvɔ̃sɨ] is a district in the northern part of Opole, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, located on the Mała Panew near its confluence with the Oder. It formed a separate village in Gmina Dobrzeń Wielki until January 1, 2017, when it was incorporated into the city of Opole.[1][2]
Czarnowąsy | |
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District of Opole | |
Norbertine monastery and Opole Power Plant | |
  Czarnowąsy Location within Poland | |
| Coordinates: 50°43′31″N 17°54′00″E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Opole |
| City county | Opole |
| Elevation | 153 m (502 ft) |
| Population (2006) | |
• Total | 3,108 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | OP |
Geography
It is situated on the Mała Panew river near its confluence with the Oder.
History
The settlement of Czarnowanz was first mentioned in a 1228 deed of the Piast duke Casimir I of Opole, who moved a Premonstratensian (Norbertine) nunnery from Rybnik to the site, centred on the Church of St Norbert.[3] The monastery was devastated by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years' War in 1643 and the nuns fled to Bolesławiec in Greater Poland.[4][5] After the war, the monastery was rebuilt in a Baroque style finished in 1682.
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South of the village, a wooden Baroque church dedicated to Saint Anne was erected between 1684 and 1688; it burned down on 19 August 2005 in an arson attack and was reconstructed in 2007.[6][7]
The convent’s estates were secularised by the Prussian authorities in 1810.[8]
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries the complex functioned as the Heinrichstift foundation; in 1902 it was entrusted to the Sisters of St Hedwig.[9]
Part of the German Empire from 1871, the village remained within the Province of Upper Silesia in the Weimar Republic after the Upper Silesia plebiscite of 1921; in 1936 the Nazi administration renamed it Klosterbrück as part of a wider campaign to remove Slavic toponyms — in this case a Polish-derived one.[10][11]
After World War II the area became part of Poland (see Territorial changes of Poland after World War II).
Notable people
- Dietmar Wolter (born 1941), German surgeon, inventor and entrepreneur.