Trawniki is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

() in the administrative district of

Gmina Pawłowiczki __NOTOC__ Gmina Pawłowiczki is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Kędzierzyn-Koźle County, Opole Voivodeship, in southwestern Poland. Its seat is the village of Pawłowiczki, which lies approximately southwest of Kędzierzyn-Koźle and ...

, within

Kędzierzyn-Koźle County __NOTOC__ Kędzierzyn-Koźle County () 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 Polish local government reforms passe ...

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, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately north-west of

Pawłowiczki Pawłowiczki () is a village in Kędzierzyn-Koźle County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Pawłowiczki. It lies approximately south-west of Kędzierzyn-Koźle and so ...

, west of

Kędzierzyn-Koźle Kędzierzyn-Koźle () is a city in south-western 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 Voivodeship. Founded from the merger of the prev ...

, and south of the regional capital

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Etymology

The name of the village is of Polish origin and comes from the word ''trawnik'', which means "

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". The oldest mention in documents comes from 1224, when it was part of fragmented

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-ruled Poland. In the ''

Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland The Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic Countries () is a monumental Polish gazetteer, published 1880–1902 in Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns ...

'' from 1892, it was mentioned as ''Trawnik''. Under

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, the village was renamed to ''Grünweide'' in 1936 to erase traces of Polish origin.

References

Villages in Kędzierzyn-Koźle County {{Kędzierzyn-Koźle-geo-stub