Iłowa
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lebus | ||
| Powiat : | Żagański | ||
| Gmina : | Iłowa | ||
| Area : | 9.11 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 30 ' N , 15 ° 12' E | ||
| Height : | 125 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 3892 (June 30, 2019) | ||
| Postal code : | 68-120 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 68 | ||
| License plate : | FZG | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Żary - Lubań | ||
| Rail route : | Żary – Węgliniec | ||
| Next international airport : | Wroclaw | ||
Iłowa [ iˈwɔva ] ( German Halbau ) is a small town on the Kleine Tschirne (Czerna Mała) in the far north of the part of Upper Lusatia that belongs to Poland . The city belongs to the powiat Żagański of the Lubusz Voivodeship . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name with 6,881 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019).
history
In 1356, the brothers received from Kotwitz the half village on the Czirne by Emperor Charles IV. As a fief; they owned semi-buildings until 1567. In 1440 the city of Görlitz destroyed a castle belonging to the von Kottwitz family because it had turned out to be a robbery . In 1570 Christoph von Schellendorf bought the manor. In 1626, Christoph Freiherr von Schellendorf had the manor house rebuilt.
The majority of the place was in Upper Lusatia and thus passed from Bohemia to the Electorate of Saxony in 1635 . In 1682, Count Balthasar von Promnitz acquired the property.
The Eisenhammer zur Halbe , mentioned in 1459, was located on the Kleine Tschirne and belonged to the Duchy of Sagan . In 1668 a Protestant border church was built. On May 17, 1679, the Upper Lusatian part was given town charter by Elector Johann Georg II . In 1804 the church in Kunau (Konin Żagański) was consecrated and became an independent parish.
In 1815, Halbau fell to Prussia and was assigned to the Sagan (Żagań) district, and from 1932 to the Sprottau (Szprotawa) district in the province of Lower Silesia .
The extended manor Halbau, which included many villages, belonged to the castle. The widow of a Count Promnitz, who died in 1744, married Friedrich August von Kospoth , which brought the castle and estate to this family. The widow of Erdmann Graf von Kospoth, who died in 1861, sold the estate to Conrad Freiherr von der Reck in 1862 .
In 1830, Halbau lost its town charter and was henceforth a market town.
Glass factories and textile factories were located in Halbau. Due to the lawn iron ore deposits, there were also many smaller ironworks and hammers in the area, as well as the Zeipau Dachstein works .
In 1825 there were 1000 inhabitants living here, spread over the manor Halbau, Oberlausitzisch Halbau and Schlesisch-Halbau. In 1905 there were 1,500 and in 1939 3480 inhabitants. On March 1, 1936, the place Zehrpaket (Dolany), in which 125 people lived in 1925, was incorporated into Halbau. During the Second World War , a satellite camp of the Groß-Rosen concentration camp was set up in Halbau .
In 1957 Iłowa was raised to an urban settlement (osiedle) and in 1962 the place received city rights again.
local community
The town itself and ten villages with school offices belong to the town-and-country community (gmina miejsko-wiejska) Iłowa. It covers a territory of about 153 km².
Partner communities
- Jänschwalde , Brandenburg
- Rietschen , Saxony
Personalities
- Karl Gottlieb Prätzel (1785–1861), poet, writer and journalist
- Friedrich Boser (1809–1881), genre and portrait painter
- Ewald Glombitza (1878–1969), KPD politician and member of the Saxon state parliament
- Christian Lehmann (* 1934), cameraman.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Verlag CH Beck, Munich (9 volumes; 2005–2009).
- ↑ Isabell Sprenger: Groß-Rosen . A concentration camp in Silesia. Böhlau Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-412-11396-4 .