Łażany

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Łażany
Coat of arms is missing
Help on coat of arms
Łażany (Poland)
Łażany
Łażany
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lower Silesia
Powiat : Świdnica
Gmina : Żarów
Geographic location : 50 ° 57 ′  N , 16 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  N , 16 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E
Residents : 665 (Dec. 31, 2010)
Telephone code : (+48) 74
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Wroclaw



Łażany (German Laasan ; also Lazan ) is a place in the municipality Żarów in the powiat Świdnicki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland . It is located 14 kilometers north of Świdnica on the Striegauer Wasser .

history

Laasan belonged to the Duchy of Schweidnitz and was probably founded by Duke Bolko I through forest clearing and implemented under German law at the end of the 13th century. The church, first mentioned in 1335, also dates from this period. Laasan was the seat of a manor , a heritage office and at the same time a parish. In the 14th century Laasan was owned by the Knights of Seidlitz , who also called themselves von Lazan . Its best known representative was the governor of Breslau, Heinrich von Lazan . After the death of Duke Bolko II in 1368, Laasan fell to the Crown of Bohemia together with the Duchy of Schweidnitz . Around the middle of the 15th century Laasan came to the knights of Mühlheim-Puschke from neighboring Puschkau and in 1600 to the barons of Zedlitz on Peterwitz . They united the manors of Laasan, Saarau , Peterwitz and Neudorf ( Nowice ) into a majorate and lived at Laasan Castle.

In 1622 the Barons von Nostitz became majorate owners . They rebuilt the village after the destruction of the Thirty Years War and carried out the Counter Reformation . In 1654 the church was returned to the Catholics.

After the First Silesian War , Laasan fell to Prussia in 1742, like almost all of Silesia . In 1743 Beate Abigail von Siegroth, widow after Karl Gottlieb von Nostitz since 1741, married the Prussian Field Marshal Wilhelm Dietrich von Buddenbrock . They were inherited by the Counts of Burghauß , who were followed in 1885 by the Counts of Pfeil-Burghauß .

In 1796 Germany's first cast iron bridge was built in Laasan . It was made in the Silesian ironworks Malapane and led across the Striegau water. After the reorganization of Prussia, Laasan belonged to the province of Silesia from 1815 and was incorporated into the Striegau district from 1816 to 1932 and then the Schweidnitz district until 1945 . The same name since January 1, 1874 made Laasan District , which also includes the rural community of Hummel and the Gutsbezirk Laasan belonged.

The Laasan factory district, established in 1850, was of economic importance . To it belonged the Ida and Marienhütte founded by Carl Friedrich Kulmiz and important chemical factories of the joint stock company Silesia, an iron foundry , a machine factory, brown coal mines as well as blue and white clay mines . In 1939 the factory site was incorporated into Saarau .

As a result of the Second World War , Laasan came to Poland in 1945 along with almost all of Silesia and was renamed Łażany . The German population was expelled. 1975-1998 Łażany belonged to the Wałbrzych Voivodeship (German Waldenburg ). This was dissolved with the administrative reform in 1999. Since then, Łażany has been part of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.

Attractions

Laasan Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection
  • The Laasan castle built in the second half of the 16th century in Renaissance style. In 1720, Karl Gottlieb von Nostitz arranged for a renovation in the Baroque style. After 1945 it was left to decay. Parts of the walls are preserved up to the top of the wall.
  • The Church of the Holy Trinity , first mentioned in 1335 , was rebuilt and expanded in 1569 by Formosa von Nimptsch , widow of Sigmund von Mühlheim. The painting of the main altar was created by the painter Ferdinand Winkler from Neisse . On the eastern outer wall there is a stone epitaph belonging to the landlord Sigmund von Mühlheim († 1594).

Population development

  • 1885: 1,692 inhabitants
  • 1939: 1,299
  • 2010: 665

literature

Web links

Commons : Łażany  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Główny Urząd Statystyczny, Portret miejscowości statystycznych w gminie Żarów (powiat świdnicki, województwo dolnośląskie) w 2010 r. Online (xls file)