Świerki (Nowa Ruda)

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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lower Silesia
Powiat : Kłodzko
Gmina : Nowa Ruda
Geographic location : 50 ° 37 '  N , 16 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '0 "  N , 16 ° 26' 0"  E
Height : 525 m npm
Residents : 690
Postal code : 57-400
Telephone code : (+48) 74
License plate : DKL
Economy and Transport
Street : Wałbrzych - Nowa Ruda
Rail route : Wałbrzych – Kłodzko
Next international airport : Wroclaw



Świerki (German Königswalde , Czech Kralovice ) is a village in the rural municipality of Nowa Ruda in Poland . It is eight kilometers northwest of Nowa Ruda ( Neurode ) and belongs to the powiat Kłodzki .

geography

Geographically, Świerki belongs to the Kłodzko Basin , on the northwestern edge of which it is located. To the northeast rises the 758 m high Königswalder Spitzberg ( Góra Włodzicka ). Neighboring towns are Sierpnice ( Rudolfswaldau ) in the north, Sokolec ( Falkenberg ) in the northeast, Ludwikowice Kłodzkie ( Ludwigsdorf ) in the east, Krajanów ( Krainsdorf ) and Dworki ( Vierhöfe ) in the south and Bartnica ( Beutengrund ) and Głuszyca ( Wüstegiersdorf ) in the north. Beyond the national border are the Czech villages of Šonov ( Schönau ) and Rožmitál ( Rosental ) in the southwest and Benešov ( Straßenau ) and Janovičky ( Johannesberg ) in the northwest.

history

Königswalde belonged to the Neuroder district in Glatzer Land and was close to the border with the Principality of Schweidnitz . It was first mentioned in 1352 under the name Kunigswalde , when Hans Wüsthube sold the Neurode estate, to which it belonged, to Hensel von Donyn . When this branch of the Burgraves Donyn expired in 1465 in the male line, Königswalde came to Georg Stillfried-Rattonitz . It remained with his descendants until the beginning of the 19th century when Anton Alexander von Magnis acquired the property on Eckersdorf . The Freirichtergut , which has been documented since the middle of the 15th century and was called Heidelberg , formed a separate part .

After the First Silesian War in 1742 and finally after the Peace of Hubertusburg in 1763, Königswalde and the County of Glatz became part of Prussia in 1763 . After the reorganization of Prussia, it belonged to the province of Silesia from 1815 , which was divided into districts. The district of Glatz was responsible from 1816–1853, and the district of Neurode from 1854–1932 . After its dissolution in 1933, Königswalde was again part of the Glatz district until 1945.

As a result of the Second World War , in 1945 Königswalde, like most of Silesia, was placed under Polish administration and renamed Świerki . Unless they had fled before, the German population was largely expelled in 1946 . Some of the new residents were displaced from eastern Poland . 1975-1998 Świerki belonged to the Wałbrzych Voivodeship ( Waldenburg ). The parish Świerki belongs since 1992 to the diocese Swidnica ( Schweidnitz ).

In 1939 Königswalde had 1,556 inhabitants, in the 1980s there were 729 and currently there are fewer than 700.

Attractions

  • The Parish Church of St. Nicholas ( Kościół św. Mikołaja ) was built in 1748 on the site of an earlier church. It has a baroque interior.
  • The north-eastern 1100 meter long tunnel was built for the railway line Wałbrzych – Kłodzko ( Waldenburg - Glatz ).
  • Chapel in the abandoned district of Granicznik ( Markgrund )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marek Šebela, Jiři Fišer: České Názvy hraničních Vrchů, Sídel a vodních toků v Kladsku . In: Kladský sborník 5, 2003, p. 367

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