Janowice Wielkie
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lower Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Jelenia Gora | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 53 ' N , 15 ° 55' E | ||
| Residents : | 2194 (March 31, 2011) | ||
| Postal code : | 58-520 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 75 | ||
| License plate : | DJE | ||
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| Gminatype: | Rural community | ||
| Gmina structure: | 6 school offices | ||
| Surface: | 58.09 km² | ||
| Residents: | 4302 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Population density : | 74 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Community number ( GUS ): | 0206052 | ||
| Administration (as of 2010) | |||
| Mayor : | Jerzy Grygorcewicz | ||
| Address: | ul.Kolejowa 2 58-520 Janowice Wielkie |
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| Website : | www.janowicewielkie.pl | ||
Janowice Wielkie ( German Jannowitz ) is a place in the Powiat Jeleniogórski ( Powiat Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains ) in the Polish Voivodeship of Lower Silesia and the seat of the rural municipality of the same name.
Geographical location
The village is located in Lower Silesia in the Hirschberg Valley in the Giant Mountains , east of the city of Jelenia Góra ( Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains ).
history
In 1945 the place was named Jannowitz and belonged to the district of Hirschberg in the administrative district of Liegnitz in the Prussian province of Lower Silesia of the German Empire .
Jannowitz Castle originally belonged to Count Schaffgotsch , later to Count Stolberg .
After the end of the Second World War , Jannowitz was placed under Polish administration by the Soviet occupying power, along with almost all of Silesia . The Poles introduced the Polish name Janowice Wielkie for Jannowitz . Unless the local German residents had fled beforehand, most of them were subsequently expelled from Jannowitz by the local Polish administrative authorities .
Jannowitz Castle.
View from the town of the Giant Mountains.
Population development
| year | Residents | Remarks |
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| 1933 | 1,796 | |
| 1939 | 1,869 |
local community
The municipality of Janowice Wielkie covers an area of 58.09 km² with 4,100 inhabitants. The rural community has six districts ( sołectwo ; German names ) with a Schulzenamt:
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Personalities
- Wilhelm zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1807–1898), German politician, died here.
- Constantin zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1843–1905), German politician, was born here and died here.
- Hugo Scheinert (1873–1943), painter and lecturer at the Royal School of Arts and Crafts in Breslau, lived and worked here.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on March 9, 2018
- ↑ population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
- ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. hirschberg.html # ew39hbrgjannow. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ The Genealogical Place Directory
Towns of Karpacz (Krummhübel) | Kowary (Schmiedeberg i. Riesengeb.) | Piechowice (Petersdorf) | Szklarska Poręba (Schreiberhau)
Rural municipalities Janowice Wielkie (Jannowitz) | Jeżów Sudecki (Grunau) | Mysłakowice (Zillerthal-Erdmannsdorf) | Podgórzyn (Giersdorf) | Stara Kamienica (Old Kemnitz)