Kondratów
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lower Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Yes | ||
| Gmina : | Męcinka | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 3 ' N , 15 ° 58' E | ||
| Residents : | 293 (December 31, 2011) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 76 | ||
| License plate : | DJA | ||
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| Next international airport : | Wroclaw | ||
Kondratów (German Konradswaldau ) is a village in the municipality of Męcinka in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland .
Geographical location
Kondratów is located in western Lower Silesia, in the so-called Sudeten foreland and in the mountainous Silesian language area . The small street village is located in a wide valley surrounded by the Jauer Mountains rising to 480 meters between Złotoryja ( Goldberg ) and Jawor ( Jauer ) in the northwest and east and the Bober-Katzbach Mountains ( Góry Kaczawskie ), which rise up to 724 meters . in the southwest. The Wilsbach, rising from the source at the foot of the Jauer Mountains in the east, crosses the town in a north-westerly direction.
The next larger cities of Kondratów are the former district town Złotoryja in the northwest, Legnica (German Liegnitz ) in the northeast, Jawor in the east and Jelenia Góra ( Hirschberg ) and Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój ( Bad Warmbrunn ) in the southwest. The area around Kondratów is dominated by volcanic rock. In the 13th century gold was mined in the nearby forest of the village.
The village of Kondratów extends in a wide valley of the Wilsbach. For the most part, the houses and courtyards, which are now partially dilapidated, are widely scattered.
history
The history of Kondratów goes back to the year 1263 when the settlement Conradeswald was called. The center of the Konradswaldau community is the Catholic church, the structure of which is in the Gothic style and dates from the 13th century. The building is considered to be the oldest surviving building in the town. Until the expulsion of the German population in 1946, the village was divided into Oberdorf, Mitteldorf and Niederdorf. In Konradswaldau, most of the 717 inhabitants (1939) worked in agriculture. Although there were no particularly large farms in the village, the farmers in the village were considered very wealthy.
Until the end of the Second World War, Konradswaldau was the seat of Colonel Hans von Poncet, who came from a Huguenot family and whose ancestors a. a. Chamberlain of the Green Vault at the Saxon court in Dresden.
The associated estate was located in the immediate vicinity of the baroque palace. After 1945 only a ruin remained of the castle and manor, as well as the remains of the grave of Colonel v. Poncet. The von Poncet family saved themselves in April 1945 from the advancing Red Army by fleeing via the Sudetenland to Murnau in Upper Bavaria.
Today Kondratów is a place with about 290 inhabitants.
Personalities
- Hans Karl Franz von Poncet. Colonel, knight's cross bearer, landlord on Konradswaldau. Born on April 26, 1899 in Gleiwitz ; died on November 23, 1983 in Murnau-Westried (Bavaria). Last combat commander of Leipzig in 1945.
- Marie Luise von Poncet, b. von Harnier, painter, b. April 6, 1904 in Minden Westphalia, daughter of Ludwig Friedrich von Harnier and Sibylle von Schlichting.
- From 1930 to 1946, the home of the sculptor and graphic artist Walter Ibscher (1926–2011) was in the Niederdorf district . His parents ran a small forge there. Ibscher lived in Nuremberg until his death .
literature
- Alfred Eckert: Wind under the wings. Life and work of the sculptor and graphic artist Walter Ibscher . Publishing house Dr. Herbert Winter, Fürth 2006, p. 38ff.
- Wilhelm von Kügelgen : childhood memories of an old man .
- Rainer Sippenauer: Combat commander in Leipzig: Hans von Poncet , 2004.
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of Kondratów Municipality, Ludność , accessed on March 27, 2011
- ^ Poncet, Jean François - Watch Wiki