Bierkowice (Kłodzko)

Bierkowice
	Bierkowice
	Bierkowice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lower Silesia
Powiat :	Kłodzko
Gmina :	Kłodzko
Geographic location :	50 ° 29 ′ N , 16 ° 36 ′ E Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 38 " N , 16 ° 36 ′ 21" E
Height :	320 m npm
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 74
License plate :	DKL
Economy and Transport
Rail route :	Wałbrzych – Kłodzko
Next international airport :	Wroclaw Airport
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Bierkowice (German: Birgwitz ) is a village in the powiat Kłodzki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland. It is located six kilometers northwest of Kłodzko ( Glatz ), to whose independent rural community it belongs.

geography

Historical manor

Crucifixion group in Bierkowice

Bierkowice lies in the valley of stones . To the west rises the 401 m high mountain Orła ( Georgshöhe ). Neighboring towns are Łączna and Młynów in the northeast, Ścinawica in the west, Gołogłowy in the southwest, Korytów in the south, Piszkowice in the southwest, and Gorzuchów and Święcko in the northeast.

history

Birgwitz was first mentioned in 1351 as Birkovicz . It was parish off to Pischkowitz and belonged to the Glatzer Land , with which it shared the history of its political and ecclesiastical affiliation from the beginning.

The oldest known manor owner was around 1360 Hans von Maltitz , who was married to Agnes von Czechau on Mittelsteine . At the beginning of the 15th century, his daughter, who was married to Johann von Haugwitz , owned it. By purchase or inheritance it came to Hans von Haugwitz auf Pischkowitz, to whom the estate was confirmed by the royal office in 1499. Until 1538 it remained united with the Pischkowitz rule. In that year the possessions of Hans von Haugwitz were distributed to his three sons. Birgwitz and the Vorwerk in Niederpischkowitz received the eldest son Georg. He was married to Magdalena von Reichenbach in Peterwitz and around 1554 was a member of the legal adviser in Glatz. After his death in 1560, his sons Georg, Hans and Heinrich initially owned the inherited goods Birgwitz and Niederpischkowitz together. Since Georg died in 1566, Heinrich Niederpischkowitz and Hans received the Vorwerk and the village of Birgwitz. The latter was married to Barbara von Stillfried auf Mittelsteine . After his death in 1597, the second son Georg inherited the Birgwitz estate. Through his marriage to Rosina von Wiese in 1615 he also owned the farm and part of the village of Wiese . In 1623 he sold the Birgwitz estate with all rights to the Glatzer official secretary Johann Grosser von Pilwesche and took his seat on the Vorwerk in Wiese. In 1645 Grosser's children sold the Birgwitz estate, which had fallen into disrepair during the Thirty Years' War , to their sister Dorothea, who was a second marriage to the tax collector Carl von Klinkovsky on Niederullersdorf . A year later, the Swedes burned down the Birgwitzer Vorwerk. In 1662 Dorothea von Klinkovsky bequeathed the ruined Birgwitz estate to her stepson Johann Carl von Klinkovsky, who had inherited the Niederullersdorf estate through his father. After his death in 1697, his over-indebted goods were forcibly auctioned off. On May 5, 1700, Birgwitz was auctioned by the Rückers hereditary lord Johann Isaias von Hartig , who added it to his rule in Koritau.

After the Silesian Wars , Birgwitz and the County of Glatz came to Prussia in 1763 with the Peace of Hubertusburg . After the reorganization of Prussia, it belonged to the province of Silesia since 1815 and was incorporated into the district of Glatz from 1816–1945 .

As a result of the Second World War , Birgwitz fell to Poland in 1945, like all of Silesia, and was renamed Bierkowice . The German population was expelled in 1946. Some of the new residents were displaced from eastern Poland . 1975–1998 Bierkowice belonged to the Wałbrzych Voivodeship (German: Waldenburg ).

literature

Joseph Kögler : The chronicles of the county Glatz . Revised by Dieter Pohl . Volume 3, ISBN 3-927830-15-1 , pp. 155-159

Web links

Commons : Bierkowice - collection of pictures, videos and audio files