Gierałtów

Church tower of Gersdorf am Queis

Gierałtów (formerly Gersdorf am Queis ) is a village in the rural municipality Nowogrodziec (Polish Gmina Nowogrodziec) in the powiat Bolesławiecki of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship (Polish Województwo dolnośląskie) in southwest Poland .

Before 1945 it belonged to the Bunzlau district in the German Empire . Before the First World War, a factory for glazed clay facing bricks was built here.

Gierałtów is located on the Queis River , about six kilometers west of Nowogrodziec (formerly Naumburg am Queis), 20 kilometers west of Bolesławiec (formerly Bunzlau) and 121 kilometers west of Breslau (now Wrocław).

Today the village has about 1200 (1933: 1623) inhabitants.

literature

• Georg Adam Keyser: General Village Geography of Germany: or alphabetical description of the villages, spots, donors, monasteries, castles, fortresses, lordships, knights and country estates, Vorwerke, Meyerhöfe, iron and copper hammers, salt and paint works, glassworks, Paper mills, also isolated houses and sheep farms [et] c. according to their location, to whom, and to which district, offices, or courts they belong. A to L, Volume 1, Keyser, 1789, p. 250.

Web links

• Gersdorf home parlor. In: collections according to regions of origin. Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe, accessed on June 13, 2016 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′  N , 15 ° 19 ′  E