Koszęcin
| Koszęcin | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Lubliniec | ||
| Area : | 40.94 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 38 ' N , 18 ° 51' E | ||
| Residents : | 4563 | ||
| Postal code : | 42-286 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 34 | ||
| License plate : | SLU | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Częstochowa - Toszek | ||
| Rail route : | Kalety – Lubliniec | ||
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Kalety – Herby Nowe stop in Strzebiń |
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| Next international airport : | Katowice | ||
| Gmina | |||
| Gminatype: | Rural community | ||
| Gmina structure: | 8 school offices | ||
| Surface: | 129.00 km² | ||
| Residents: | 11,842 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Population density : | 92 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Community number ( GUS ): | 2407062 | ||
| Administration (as of 2015) | |||
| Community leader : | Grzegorz Ziaja | ||
| Address: | ul. Powstańców 10 42-286 Koszęcin |
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| Website : | www.koszecin.pl | ||
Koszęcin (German Koschentin , older also Kaschentin ) is a village and seat of the rural community of the same name in the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland . It has about 4,500 inhabitants.
geography
Neighboring communities
Neighboring municipalities are Kalety , Lubliniec and Boronów .
Geographical location
The place is twelve kilometers southeast of Lubliniec in the Woischnik-Lublinitzer hill country.
history
The first written mention in a document of the Bishop of Cracow comes from the year 1275. Since 1302 the place was owned by the Cistercian monastery Himmelwitz . In 1416 the place name Constantin became common. In 1587 the place came into the possession of the von Kochczitz family, who were expropriated in 1630 because of their denomination as Protestants . The new owner was Baron Nikolaus Philipp von Rauthen in 1647, in whose castle Johann III. Sobieski stopped. In 1693 the Counts Sobeck inherited the Koschentin rule. The last member of this family on Koschentin was Carl Heinrich Graf von Sobeck, who had to sell the property because of his splendid lifestyle. In 1774 the rule of Koschentin came into the possession of the Silesian factory owner Countess Sophie Karoline von Dyhrn zu Schönau (1712–1793), landlady on Loslau and owner of the neighboring rule Lublinitz . In the same year (1774), the countess acquired the manor Ollschin and the Boronów estate with the towns of Boronow, Chwostek, Droniowitz, Hadra and Harbultowitz. The Countess von Dyhrn and her husband Anton Ulrich , the former owner of the Dyhernfurth estate , were great art lovers. The countess had a classical theater built in the palace complex (it is no longer preserved today) and even had her own orchestra. After the Countess' death in 1793, Koschentin inherited her son Count Wilhelm Karl von Dyhrn-Schönau , heir to Loslau, Gimmel etc., who sold the great Koschentin rule to the Hohenzollern in 1799 .
In 1804 Koschentin passed to Friedrich Ludwig Prince zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen . In 1829, under the Hohenlohe family , a three-wing palace was built in the classical style. Both parts of the old castle and the theater building, which was closed in 1784, were included as the castle wing. In addition to the rule of Koschentin, the property also included five manors and 19 villages as well as extensive forests to the left and right of the Malapane in 1860 .
At the end of the 19th century, several industrial companies were established in the town in the Lublinitz district . Even if in Koschentin in the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921 about 65% of the valid votes were cast for remaining with Germany, the place fell as Koszęcin to Poland in 1922 . After the German occupation from 1939 to 1945, the place came back to Poland and the Princely House of Hohenlohe- Ingelfingen was expropriated.
In 1958 Koszęcin was elevated to a town-like settlement and at the same time the places Brusiek, Krywald (Kriewald) , Irki (Irrkau) , Piłka (Pielkau) and Rzyce (Rzytze) were incorporated. The area of Koszęcin increased to 60 km².
Since the 1990s, the community has been trying to get city rights . For this reason, a market square was created in the center of the village.
Attractions
- The Koschentin Castle dates back to the 16th century and originally belonged to the Dukes of Opole . The three-winged complex was given its current form in 1829/30, when the old castle was expanded in a classical style. The castle is surrounded by a 19th century park.
- Schrotholzkirche the Holy Trinity from 1724 with rich furnishings
- other scrap wood churches in Brusiek from the 2nd half of the 17th century and Cieszowa from 1751
Transmitter
In the vicinity of Koszęcin there had been a high-power transmission system for medium waves since 1977 with a 138 meter high steel truss mast insulated from earth. It transmitted on the frequency 1080 kHz with an output of 1500 kilowatts in the beginning; in 1978 it was limited to 750 kilowatts, then in 1990 to 350 kilowatts. At the end of 2006 the medium wave transmitter was finally given up. In many tables this station was listed as "Sender Kattowitz". In 2014, the 138 meter high medium wave transmission mast was blown up; an earthed 110 meter high transmission mast standing next to it is still in operation for directional radio and VHF radio.
Sons and daughters of the place
- Friedrich Wilhelm zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1826–1895), Prussian general and Koschentin hereditary lord
- Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1827–1892), Prussian general and military writer
- Karl Gottfried zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1879–1960), German parliamentarian
- Eugen Fuchs (1856–1923), lawyer
- Tadeusz Zdechlikiewicz , drummer
local community
The rural community (gmina wiejska) Koszęcin covers an area of 129 km² with about 11,500 inhabitants. This includes the school authorities (sołectwo) :
- Brusiek (Bruschiek) , 16 km², 68 inhabitants
- Cieszowa (Czieschowa) , 11 km², 322 inhabitants
- Koszęcin (Koschentin) , 41 km², 4,563 inhabitants
- Piłka (Pielkau) , 2 km², 82 inhabitants
- Rusinowice (Ruschinowitz) , 6 km², 1,288 inhabitants
- Sadów (Sodow) , 11 km², 1,373 inhabitants
- Strzebiń (Strzebien) , 33 km², 3,444 inhabitants
- Wierzbie (Wiersbie) , 8 km², 399 inhabitants
traffic
Koszęcin has connections to the railway network with the Koszęcin and Rusinowice stops on the Kalety – Wrocław railway line and the Strzebiń stop on the Chorzów – Tczew railway line.
Web links
- Municipality website (Polish)
- Website about the municipality (German)
- Dziennik Zachodni article (2009) about a unique memorial to the fallen (Polish)
Footnotes
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Website of the municipality, Kierownictwo - Wójt ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 27, 2015
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendung/medienmagazin/radio_news/beitraege/2015/koszecin.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
