Jakobswalde

Jakobswalde ; Kotlarnia
	Jakobswalde ; Kotlarnia
	Jakobswalde ; Kotlarnia
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Kędzierzyn-Koźle
Gmina :	Birawa
Geographic location :	50 ° 17 ′ N , 18 ° 22 ′ E Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ N , 18 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E
Residents :	780
Postal code :	47-246
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
Economy and Transport
Street :	Kędzierzyn-Koźle - Sośnicowice
Next international airport :	Katowice
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Jakobswalde (Polish : Kotlarnia ) is a place with approx. 780 inhabitants on the Birawka in Upper Silesia , Poland . He belongs to the rural community Birawa in the Kandrzin-Cosel district (Powiat Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski) in the Opole Voivodeship .

history

Jakobswalde in the 19th century

The hut square with church around 1920/1930

The church

Jakobswalde was founded by the owner of the Slawentzitz estate , Heinrich Jakob Reichsgraf von Flemming , who had the brass hammer named after him built here in 1709 . Flemming, who came from Saxony , recruited workers from the Ore Mountains and Brandenburg with tax exemptions for the hammer as well as a brass factory, wire factory and mirror factory, which were soon added . Through an exchange deal, Jakobswalde came into the possession of Count Adolf Magnus von Hoym in 1714, like the entire Slawentzitz rule .

The abundance of wood in the Slawentzitz forests, the Galmeierz from the rich deposits near Scharley (Szarlej) north-east of Bytom and copper imported from Hungary formed a good basis for the Jakobswalder brass production. After Silesia became Prussian in 1742 , the brass factory expanded rapidly. Within 50 years a spoon factory, a calamine mill, four new kilns for brass, five Lattunhütten , a wire works and a Zainhammer were built .

From 1782 the new owner of the lordship, Prince Friedrich Ludwig zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen , set up the Princely Huts Office in Jakobswalde , which also supervised iron production in the neighboring towns.

Johann Karl Korb, who was the chief hut director in Jakobswalde between 1810 and 1820, the place experienced its heyday. In addition to the construction of new rolling mills and smelters, Korb completely redesigned the townscape. A central Hüttenplatz emerged on which the site of an old grist wooden church of neoclassical building of 1815 established the Protestant Church, which is a replica of the Church of St. Marie de Batignolles in Paris , was coined the townscape. A new parsonage and a Protestant school were also built on the large rectangular square, which completed the ensemble with the baroque steelworks building and the smelter. Houses for the ironworkers were built on the confluent side streets.

Due to the dynamic development of the industry around Beuthen , the transport of the Galmei from Beuthen to Jakobswalde became unprofitable in the middle of the 19th century . In 1848 almost all the huts had to stop their production and the workers left the place. Jakobswalde became so insignificant that in 1908 the parish office was moved to Slawentzitz . Until 1945 the place belonged to the district of Cosel .

After 1945 the place was named Kotlarnia. The parsonage, which burned out in 1945, was rebuilt, but in a redesign that did not match the ensemble of the Hüttenplatz.

Until 1972 Jakobswalde formed a large community (Gmina), with the community reform it became part of the community of Birawa from January 1, 1973 .

The main employer today is a sand mine , Kopalnia Piasku "Kotlarnia" SA

The place Jakobswalde is predominantly inhabited by immigrant miners of Polish nationality, while in the other places of the large municipality of Birawa 80% of the inhabitants are of German nationality. In 1999 there was a dispute in the municipality over the intended closure of the school in the Polish-speaking town.

On January 10, 2011, the place was also given the official German place name Jakobswalde.

Population development

1820: 2,000 inhabitants
1861: 954
1885: 457 (on 2.43 km², with manor district)
1925: 276
1939: 245 (on 0.9 km²)
1971: 1,600 (on 68 km², area of the municipality)

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Jakobswalde shows an ax on a red background.

Personalities

Ernst Friedrich Zwirner , master builder of Cologne Cathedral , was born on February 28, 1802 as the son of a foreman in Jakobswalde.

Web links

Commons : Jakobswalde - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Kotlarnia Mining Company
The school dispute in Jakobswalde (Deutsche Welle) ( Memento from September 27, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
The school dispute of Jakobswalde (Jungle World) ( Memento from December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive )