Brody (Powiat Żarski)

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Brody
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Brody (Poland)
Brody
Brody
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lebus
Powiat : Żarski
Gmina : Brody
Area : 3.06  km²
Geographic location : 51 ° 48 '  N , 14 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 48 '0 "  N , 14 ° 47' 0"  E
Height : 62 m npm
Residents : 969 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 68-343
Telephone code : (+48) 68
License plate : FZA
Economy and Transport
Street : Forst (Lausitz) - Lubsko
Next international airport : Wroclaw



Brody ( German Pförten ) is a place in the eastern Lower Lusatia in the powiat Żarski of the Lubusz Voivodeship in Poland , on the border with Germany . It has 969 inhabitants (2011) and is the seat of the rural municipality of the same name with 3413 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019).

Until 1945 Pförten was a town.

geography

Brody lies on an old road from Cottbus via Lubsko (Sommerfeld) to Zielona Góra (Grünberg) on a lake (Pförtener See) . It is located twelve kilometers northeast of Forst and 30 kilometers northwest of Żary (Sorau) .

Surname

The name Pförten was probably derived from a ford through the marshland, which is also indicated by the Slavic name Brode mentioned .

In 1946 the place was given the official Polish name Brody . He was called that in Sorbian before .

history

14th to 16th century

Pförten was first mentioned in 1398. At that time it belonged to the lords of Ileburg auf Forst. In 1454 it was first mentioned as a town ( oppidum ) when it was passed on by King Ladislaus Postumus of Bohemia to the siblings Ulrich IV., Wenceslaus III. and Friedrich III. and her cousin Wenzel von Bieberstein was enfeoffed and given customs rights. Ecclesiastically it belonged to Nieder Jehser (Jesiory Dolne) until the end of the 15th century. The population was mostly Slavic .

Since the Reformation, services have also been held in Lower Sorbian .

17th and 18th centuries

In 1635, Pförten became Saxon , like the rest of Lower Lusatia. Since then, the Lower Sorbian language and culture have been pushed back. In 1667 the rule and town went to Count Ulrich Hipparchos von Promnitz , separated from the rule of Forst. In 1698 the Sorbian (Wendish) language was banned from worship.

In 1740 Heinrich Graf von Brühl , the most important minister in Electoral Saxony, bought the rule and city of Pförten. He had the castle expanded and in 1746 reunited the rule with Forst. In the following years he had the town redesigned into a splendid baroque residence and fitted with three city gates. Brühl, who was known for his lavish and sumptuous lifestyle, welcomed his guests and the prince electors in Pförten and not in the royal seat of Dresden .

Handicraft businesses for court keeping settled in the town. These included a book printer, a silk refinery, a furniture factory and a large linen weaving mill.

As a result of the Seven Years' War , courtly life on the gates came to a standstill and the businesses that were geared towards it died. In 1758 Frederick II ordered a detachment of hussars to Pförten and had the castle of Brühl, whom he hated deeply, burned down. In 1763, Pförten, like all Brühl's property, was confiscated by the new Elector Friedrich Christian . After the death of Count Brühl and the Elector in the same year, the administrator Xaver returned the property to the von Brühl family .

19th and early 20th centuries

The city came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 with Niederlausitz . In 1816/18 it was incorporated into the Sorau district. Since then it has had only limited city rights.

The castle was rebuilt from 1919 to 1924. Pförten belonged to the Brühl family until 1945 .

Since 1945

After 1945 the place came to Poland . The German population either fled or was expelled. Poles from central and former eastern Poland as well as Ukrainians moved to the place now renamed Brody . Brody has had no city rights since 1945.

Since 2010 the Schlosspark Brody belongs to the European Park Association Lausitz "From Count Brühl to Prince Pückler". Five more parks have been part of it since 2017.

Population numbers

  • 1800: 792
  • 1933: 1126
  • 2011: 969

Attractions

Pförten Castle
Pförten Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection
Forster gate
  • Pförten Castle , built in 1680, rebuilt 1741–49, destroyed in 1758, rebuilt in 1919–24;
Schlosspark (founding member of the European Park Association Lausitz )
  • Church of All Saints, 18th century
  • Forster Tor (Brama Zasiecka), 1747/48.

local community

The rural community (gmina wiejska) Brody includes the village itself and 14 other villages with school administration offices. It covers 240 km² and has been a member of the Spree-Neisse-Bober Euroregion since September 21, 1993.

Partner communities

Sons and daughters of the place

Sorted by year of birth

literature

  • Paweł Kotlewski: Z historii Brodów i okolic. = From the history of Pförtens and its surroundings. Self-published, Brody and Obernhof (Lahn) 2009, ISBN 978-83-929238-0-0 .
  • Claudius Wecke, Sven Zuber: Castle and Park Pförten = Brody. In: Palaces and Gardens of the Neumark, booklet 8. Freundeskreis Palaces and Gardens of the Mark. LINIE DREI, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941675-38-4 .

Web links

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

Footnotes

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on July 4, 2017
  2. ↑ Peter Kunze : Sorbian reminiscences from forest and surroundings . In: Lětopis . Volume 53. Issue 1. Bautzen 2006. P. 35ff.
  3. ^ Heinrich Graf von Brühl and the Lordship of Forst-Pförten, City of Forst (pdf, 2 MB)
  4. ↑ Regina Weiß: Park Association draws larger circles in: Lausitzer Rundschau June 14, 2017, Weißwasser edition, accessed on March 3, 2018
  5. ↑ Rolf Ullmann: Four became nine ( memento of the original from September 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Sächsische Zeitung February 26, 2018, accessed on March 3, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sz-online.de
  6. ↑ (hnr.): Lausitzer Parkverbund grows from four to nine in: Der Märkische Bote March 3, 2018, Senftenberg u. Surrounding area, accessed on March 3, 2018
  7. ↑ Regina Weiß: Park Association draws larger circles in: Lausitzer Rundschau June 14, 2017, Weißwasser edition, accessed on March 3, 2018
  8. ↑ Rolf Ullmann: Four became nine ( memento of the original from September 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Sächsische Zeitung February 26, 2018, accessed on March 3, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sz-online.de
  9. ↑ (hnr.): Lausitzer Parkverbund grows from four to nine in: Der Märkische Bote March 3, 2018, Senftenberg u. Surrounding area, accessed on March 3, 2018