Oppeln
a town of Prussian Silesia, on the Oder, 51 miles S. E. of Breslau.
Since 1816, when it was erected into a seat of government for Upper Silesia, the town has been much beautified both with new edifices and with parks and gardens. Its church of St. Adalbert was founded in 995; and there is an old castle on an island in the Oder. The manufactures before the World War included pottery, cigars, cement, beer, leather, etc., and there was a consider able trade in grain and cattle.