Eulau (Sprottau)

Eulau (Polish: Iława ) was a rural community in the Prussian province of Silesia or Lower Silesia , which was incorporated into the town of Sprottau (Polish: Szprotawa ) in 1925 .

history

middle Ages

The first mention of the place can be found in the chronicle of Bishop Thietmar von Merseburg and refers to the meeting of Emperor Otto III. with the Polish Duke Bolesław Chrobry in Ilva Castle in 1000 on the emperor's journey to the canonization of Adalbert of Prague in Gniezno . This castle is now generally equated with the former large castle complex Chrobry on the south bank of the Bober (Polish: Bóbr ) in today's Sprottau district of Iława .

At the turn of the 13th to the 14th century, the place is called Ylavia (1295) and Ylavia slavica (1318). 1448 the place is called Eyle .

Modern times

The current district of Iława (until 1945 Eulau) emerged in several steps from originally five administratively separate units - three villages and two manor districts - the place names of which have partly changed over time.

In 1811 Klein- , Nieder- and Ober-Eulau are mentioned, and in 1845 these three villages are also mentioned in a detailed overview of all places in Prussian Silesia.

Small-Eulau , allodial of in Mallmitz resident Earl and Viscount Alfred to Dohna- Mallmitz , left (south) of the Bober and about 3 km west of Sprottau, had 372 inhabitants, 40 houses, two manors or outworks which one called the Kottwitzer ( ), a windmill , an inn , two handicraft businesses , a trader and the paper mill of the merchant and councilor Julius Baller with five handmade paper and a paper machine. The Neuhauser colony with 6 houses and 48 inhabitants, 150 m to the south, belonged to the village.
Ober-Eulau , about 1.5 km west-northwest of Sprottau on the road to Sagan , was also an allodium of the Counts and Burgraves of Dohna, had 367 inhabitants, 55 houses, an estate, two distilleries , two taverns, five craftsmen and a grocer .
Finally, Nieder-Eulau , to the right of the Bober and across from Klein-Eulau , was responsible for the administrative village , the royal rent office Neusalz- Sagan, and a third was owned by the Magdalen convent of Sprottau . It had 279 inhabitants in 40 houses, a Protestant school, a Catholic church, a craftsman and five traders. In addition, there was the ironworks and enamelling plant founded in 1829, called Wilhelmshütte , with a blast furnace , two cupola furnaces , two enamel furnaces and a mechanical engineering workshop.

On March 3, 1874, the three rural communities of Klein-Eulau, Ober-Eulau and Nieder-Eulau (with Wilhelmshütte) and the two manor districts of Klein-Eulau and Ober-Eulau were combined to form the district of Eulau (No. 11) in the Sprottau district. The first head of office appointed for a six-year term was Adolph Mestern, general director of Wilhelmshütte in Nieder-Eulau. The following population figures in the district of Eulau have been handed down for 1885:

Klein-Eulau	781
Neu-Eulau manor district	46
Nieder-Eulau	441
Ober-Eulau	809
Manor district Ober-Eulau	67

On the 1: 100,000 map of the German Empire from 1893, only Klein-Eulau and Ober-Eulau are shown, and as can be seen from the municipal directory from 1900, Nieder-Eulau and Ober-Eulau became the rural municipality of Groß- Eulau at some point around the turn of the century. Eulau merged. On January 1, 1908, the Eulau district comprised the two rural communities Klein-Eulau and Groß-Eulau and the manor districts of Klein-Eulau and Ober-Eulau, and their population figures on December 1, 1910 were as follows:

Klein-Eulau	890
Klein-Eulau manor district	39
Gut district Ober-Eulau	72
Groß-Eulau	2103

It is noteworthy in this context that the development plan of Sprottau from 1927 shows Ober-Eulau on the left (west) and Groß-Eulau on the right (east) of the road to Sagan.

On April 1, 1923, the two rural communities Groß-Eulau and Klein-Eulau were merged to form the new rural community Eulau , and this was finally incorporated into the town of Sprottau on June 1, 1925. On September 30, 1929 the manor districts of Klein-Eulau (partially) and Ober-Eulau were incorporated into the municipality of Sprottau, and the district of Eulau was dissolved.

Footnotes

↑ Josef Partsch: Silesia: A country studies for the German people. Part I: The whole country. Hirt, Breslau, 1896, p. 33
↑ Johann G. Knie: Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, spots, cities and other places of the royal. prussia. Province of Silesia…. , 2nd edition, Graß, Barth and Comp., Breslau, 1845, p. 125
^ Karl Weinhold: On the history of the development of place names in German Silesia , in: Journal of the Association for History and Ancient Silesia , Volume 21, Breslau, 1887, pp. 239-296 (here p. 250)
↑ The Maiden Monastery Magdalenerinnen-Ordens zu Sprottau , in: Fragments from the history of the monasteries and foundations of Silesia from their creation to the time of their abolition in November 1810. Breslau, 1811, pp. 246-250 (here: 249)

↑ Johann G. Knie: Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, spots, cities and other places of the royal. prussia. Province of Silesia…. , 2nd edition, Graß, Barth and Comp., Breslau, 1845, p. 125

↑ Klein-Eulau with the Dohnas manor and the Vorwerk Kottwitz and Ober-Eulau with the Dohnas manor belonged to the Fideikommissherrschaft Mallmitz of the counts and burgraves of Dohna, which also included the places or manors Girbigsdorf, Johnsdorf, Kaltdorf, Mallmitz and Schadendorf ( D Pastorff: Schlesisches Güter-Adressbuch: Directory of all manors and independent manor and forest districts .... Fifth edition. Wilh. Gottl. Korn, Breslau, 1894, p. 342 ).

↑ Most of the Dohnasch estates and farms were leased ; see e.g. B. the lease advertisement in the Leipziger Zeitung of April 30, 1949: First supplement to no. 120 in the Leipziger Zeitung, April 30, 1849, p. 2178

↑ Working group of East German family researchers: Sprottau district

^ Map of the German Empire 1: 100,000 (371) Sprottau (1893)

^ Municipal directory Germany 1900: District Sprottau

^ Map Sprottau development plan, 1927, with Ober-Eulau and Groß-Eulau and map Sprottau development plan, 1927, with Klein Eulau

↑ The remaining part of the Klein-Eulau manor district came to the Mallmitz community (Polish: Małomice ) in the Mallmitz district.