Godzieszówek

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Godzieszówek (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lower Silesia
Powiat : Świdnica
Gmina : Strzegom
Geographic location : 50 ° 57 '  N , 16 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '29 "  N , 16 ° 16' 21"  E
Height : 225 m npm
Residents : 130 (2006)
Telephone code : (+48) 74
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Wroclaw



Godzieszówek [ gɔd͡ʑɛ'ʂuvɛk ] (German Günthersdorf ) is a village in the urban and rural community of Strzegom in the Powiat Świdnicki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland .

Postcard from Günthersdorf at the beginning of the 20th century
Map excerpt of Günthersdorf from Mes table sheet 5063 from 1936

geography

Godzieszówek is located about five kilometers west of Strzegom, 20 kilometers from the district town of Świdnica and 55 kilometers from Wroclaw .

history

Godzieszówek was first mentioned in 1305 as "Guntheri Villa", but was probably founded by German farmers at the end of the 13th century . The German name of the village goes back to its founder Gunther or Günther. Finds of remains of vessels, which were reported by the head of the office in 1933, suggest a much older first settlement.

The forest hoof village with 14 hooves measured 333 ha in 1305. Of the fourteen hooves, eleven hooves were farm estates, two were given to the village mayor and one to an unknown knight. The interest had to be paid to the Bishop of Breslau and the Duke - hence the name "Herzogsgeschoss", which existed until the 18th century under the name "Ducal Grain Interest ", although there was no longer a Duke at that time.

The large amount of forest that still existed in the Wilhelminian era was almost completely cleared over the course of time, so that nowadays only very few trees can be found in the direct vicinity of Günthersdorf. The forest stock at that time can be inferred primarily from the field names "Gule" or "Guhle" (gola = forest clearing).

The lordship over Günthersdorf went to the Counts of Hochberg auf Rohnstock in 1626, until the lordship was replaced in 1848.

On December 14, 1545, the King of Bohemia, Ferdinand I , granted the city of Striegau the right to malt, brew and give as gifts and the upper and lower courts, the salt market and the Kretschamwerk within a radius of one mile ( mile right ) to operate. In 1626, during the Thirty Years' War, this right was checked by Emperor Ferdinand II , whereupon Joachim von Hochberg auf Günthersdorf was allowed to “use nothing more than the proven upper and lower courts, but not the beer bar”. This meant that Günthersdorf, although as was officially confirmed, "is located below the mile", the beer had to be obtained from Striegau. In 1810 all these restrictions were removed with the introduction of the freedom of trade .

From 1741 Günthersdorf belonged to the Striegau district due to the district constitution enforced by Friedrich II .

In the Second Silesian War in 1744/45, in which the Battle of Hohenfriedberg was fought , Günthersdorf or the Gule was the scene of the main battle between the Austro-Saxon and Prussian troops. In the course of this battle the famous offensive of the Bayreuth Dragoons took place , who drove the enemy troops west with a grandiose victory. Two different monuments in the vicinity reminded of this war: The first was the so-called “Guledenkmal” or “Monument in the Guhle”, which was provided with two inscriptions:

Front:
"In memory of the 1,821 Austrians who died in the Battle of Hohenfriedeberg and 1,320 war comrades from the Electorate of Saxony."

Back:
“Wanderer, bring the news about us to Saxony and Austria. Obedient and true to the commandment, we rest here united in the grave. "

The second memorial, a stone, stands on the road from Thomaswaldau to Günthersdorf and is marked with a reference to the attack by the Bayreuth dragoons, who captured 66 flags within twenty minutes.

From 1758 school lessons were given in a building of the Scholtisei , which was held by a teacher from Häslicht. The school was later expanded and officially referred to as the "Protestant School".

In a village report from 1785 the field is described as “cold, wet and drowned”. Some field names in the area also indicated wet terrain, such as the large pond to the north and the Hausdorfer See to the south, both drained and reforested or converted into meadows. There was also the Lange Beele, a brook that flows from the Gule to the east in the direction of trenches and was previously characterized by the clear water. Another report from 1829 describes the soil as follows:

"In many places heavy and loose, more wet than dry, some places clayey."

On August 1, 1807, four farm estates were burned down by enemy troops who passed through Günthersdorf in the course of the Fourth Coalition War . Furthermore, an estate burned down on January 27, 1818, namely "through malicious investment by the service boy Franz Bürgel".

In 1845 it is mentioned in the village report that the field could be improved considerably through drainage and other measures, so that in 1885 the land value was valued at 32.12 marks and thus came close to medium-sized land .

Although the construction of the Striegau – Bolkenhain railway line in 1890 also affected the Günthersdorf area, the village did not have its own train station. The responsible train station was five kilometers away in Gräben near Striegau.

From 1874 Günthersdorf also had its own registry office , during which the churches responsible for both denominations were located in neighboring Rohnstock . The associated post office was in Thomaswaldau, two kilometers away.

From October 1, 1932, Günthersdorf no longer belonged to the Striegau district, but to the Schweidnitz district.

Even before the end of the Second World War in February 1945 Günthersdorf was occupied by Soviet troops , and from 1946 the expulsion of the German population began , as well as the renaming of Günthersdorf to Godzieszówek.

In the years from 1975 to 1998 the village was administratively part of the Wałbrzych Voivodeship (German Waldenburg ).

Population development

year Residents
1785 148
1829 156
1830 158
1845 184
1885 234
1900 212
1910 303
1925 264
1929 296
1933 284
1939 339
2006 130

literature

  • Leonhard Radler: Günthersdorf and Niklasdorf. In: Daily review. 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Albert Zimmermann: Additions to the description of Silesia: Vom Fürstenthum Schweidnitz , Brieg 1785, p. 221.
  2. CFW Richter: Historical-topographical description of the Striegau district with two stone drawings. Collected from documents, acts, chronicles and manuscripts by CFW Richter. Striegau 1829, p. 452.
  3. ^ Johann Georg Knie: Alphabetical = statistical = topographical overview of all villages, towns, cities and other places in the royal family. Prussia. Province of Silesia; together with the attached evidence of the division of the country into the various branches of civil administration with three separate tables , Breslau 1830, p. 222.
  4. ^ Johann Georg Knie: Alphabetical = statistical = topographical overview of the villages, towns, cities and other places of the royal family. Preuss. Province of Silesia, together with the attached evidence of the division of the country into the districts of the three royal governments, the principalities and districts contained therein, with an indication of the area, the mean elevation above the sea surface, the inhabitants, buildings, the livestock, etc. , Breslau 1845 , P. 192.