Cisek (german: Czissek, 1935-45: Friedenau ) is an agricultural

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...

Kędzierzyn-Koźle County __NOTOC__ Kędzierzyn-Koźle County ( pl, powiat kędzierzyńsko-kozielski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Opole Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the ...

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, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called

Gmina Cisek __NOTOC__ Gmina Cisek, German Gemeinde Czissek is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Kędzierzyn-Koźle County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the village of Cisek (Czissek), which lies approximately south of Kę ...

. It lies approximately south from

Kędzierzyn-Koźle Kędzierzyn-Koźle (german: Kandrzin-Cosel, szl, Kandrzin-Koźle) is a city in southern Poland, the administrative center of Kędzierzyn-Koźle County. With 58,899 inhabitants as of 2021, it is the second most-populous city in the Opole Voivode ...

and south-east from the regional capital Opole. The village has a population of 1,485.

History

In 1532, it was named as ''Czisky and Cisek''. In 1830, the village had 564 residents and 138 houses. By 1845, it had grown to 760 inhabitants and 129 houses. A

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school, founded in 1818, employed one teacher and one assistant teacher. In 1865, the total area of the village was 8.3 km² ,037 acres According to the census of 1910, the village was inhabited by 1,206 Poles. In the census of 1925, the

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was listed as the native tongue of 901 villagers, German was only listed by 64 people, and 343 people were recorded as bilingual. From 1925 - 1933, a Polish language public school functioned in the village. There was also a branch of the Polish-Catholic School Society. In 1937, the village caused an uproar in the Polish community of Germany due to the county authorities in

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denial of a license to suspend the village's newly acquired church tower bells. The bells had been funded by local Polish parishioners. The German authorities had stated that the tower was too weak to hang the heavy bells. Finally, the authorities agreed to suspend the bells after removing the Polish inscription from them which read, "Hail Mary, pray for us." The

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also registered two more cases of destruction of Polish inscriptions, which were placed on the roadside crosses, at this time. In 1997 the village was heavily effected by the Millennium Flood. The flood destroyed nearly all the season's crops and many roads. The village is partnered with both

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and Körperich in Germany. CisekMemoryStone

General statistics

*Population: 1,485 *Population density: 280 people/km² *Area: 5.3 km² **Forests and forest land: 2 km² 50 acresref>Data: GUS 2005

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File:ChurchinCisek SilesiaPL.jpg, Wayside Chapel is a village landmark. File:Cisek2.jpg, Bilingual signs at the municipal office

History

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