Leśnik , German Leschnig is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Głogówek
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Gmina Głogówek, German Gemeinde Oberglogau is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Prudnik County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, on the Czech border in Upper Silesia. Its seat is the town of Głogówek (O ...
(Gemeinde Oberglogau), within
Prudnik County
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Prudnik County ( pl, powiat prudnicki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( powiat) in Opole Voivodeship, south-western Poland, on the Czech border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the P ...
,
Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the
Czech border.
It lies approximately north-west of
Głogówek (Oberglogau), east of
Prudnik, and south of the regional capital
Opole
Opole (; german: Oppeln ; szl, Ôpole) ;
* Silesian:
** Silesian PLS alphabet: ''Ôpole''
** Steuer's Silesian alphabet: ''Uopole''
* Silesian German: ''Uppeln''
* Czech: ''Opolí''
* Latin: ''Oppelia'', ''Oppolia'', ''Opulia'' is a city loc ...
. Historically located in
Upper Silesia, in the
Prudnik Land.
Since 2009, the village, like much of the area, has been officially bilingual in German and Polish.
History
The first mention of the town dates back to 1217, when its name was Lesnie. The town is next mentioned in 1388, when Prince
Wladislaw of Oppeln founded a Pauline monastery in the nearby village of
Mochau. The area eventually came under the control of
Austria, but was taken by the kingdom of
Prussia in the 18th century. In 1850 the village was assigned to the parish of Mochau.
Until 1900 the village operated a distillery, and a watermill was functional until it was destroyed in a flood in 1903. In the village there are two chapels; one dedicated to
Saint Urban I and another built to commemorate the plague of 1649. There are also four crosses in the village, erected in 1899, 1906, 1913, and 1954.
References
Villages in Prudnik County
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