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Konradów, Opole Voivodeship

village in Opole, Poland

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ11742762 ↗
Source-derived summary

Konradów [kɔnˈraduf] (German: Dürr Kunzendorf) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Głuchołazy, within Nysa County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border.

On 29 January 1945, German SS officers were conducting a death march in the area and murdered 138 prisoners on a road leading to Zlaté Hory.

Editorial summary

“Konradów, Opole Voivodeship” enters the record as village in Opole, Poland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Konradów, Opole and Voivodeship can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1945—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Konradów, Opole and Voivodeship.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Konradów, Opole Voivodeship” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Konradów, Opole and Voivodeship provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11742762. Authority coordinates are 50.296, 17.402. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1945.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Konradów, Opole Voivodeship”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Konradów, Opole Voivodeship primary sources, Konradów, Opole Voivodeship archive and Konradów research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Konradów, Opole Voivodeship”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Konradów, Opole Voivodeship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.