Kotowice (Nowogród Bobrzański)

Kotowice
	Kotowice
	Kotowice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lebus
Powiat :	Zielona Góra
Gmina :	Nowogród Bobrzański
Geographic location :	51 ° 48 ' N , 15 ° 22' E Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '45 " N , 15 ° 21' 47" E
Residents :	411 (2011)
Postal code :	66-007
Telephone code :	(+48) 68
License plate :	FZI
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Kotowice ( German Kottwitz ) is a village in the urban and rural municipality Nowogród Bobrzański (Naumburg am Bober) in the powiat Zielonogórski (Grünberg district in Silesia) in the Polish Lebus Voivodeship .

Geographical location

The village is located in Lower Silesia , about twenty kilometers south of the city of Zielona Góra (Grünberg in Silesia) and 50 kilometers northwest of the city of Glogau .

history

The village used to consist of several farms and farms. It was probably created by a member of the von Kottwitz family from Upper Lusatia . In 1474, Hans and Heinz von Berge were enfeoffed with Kottwitz. In the Thirty Years' War the Berge family became impoverished, and Kottwitz lay desolate; the last owner named Berge was Georg Heinrich von Berge († 1663). The Rittmeister Sigismund von Berge was only administrator of the goods in 1672. In 1673 Joachim von Luck bought them , and later they came to Heinrich von Haßlinger and the Freiherr von Skronski. In 1744 Haßlinger pledged his estate to the tax officer Rothe in Sagan, whose heirs still owned it around the middle of the 19th century.

Districts:

Main part of the village
Mittelvorwerk
Niedvorwerk (three passed farmers goods)
Genetic material (two farms and two large gardeners)
Obervorwerk (called Pfenning-Vorwerk)

The village initially belonged to the Sagan district and when it was dissolved in 1932 it was incorporated into the Grünberg district, which in 1933 transferred the former Sagan shares to the Freystadt i. Lower Silesian. in the administrative district of Liegnitz of the Prussian province of Silesia of the German Empire .

Towards the end of the Second World War , the region was occupied by the Red Army in the spring of 1945 , and a short time later Kottwitz was placed under Polish administration. The villagers were subsequently evicted by the local Polish administration . Kottwitz was renamed Kotowice .

Population figures before 1945

1933: 408
1939: 401

Parish until 1945

The parish of Kottwitz became Protestant after the Reformation . Ambrosius Würfel is mentioned as a Catholic pastor in 1524. From 1688 Catholic pastors were installed. In 1742 the parish was declared dissolved and Protestant pastors were employed again.

Sons and daughters of the place

Reinhold Brunzel (* 1866), German politician (SPD)
Karl Haupt (1829–1882), pastor and folklorist

literature

A. Leipelt: History of the city and the Duchy of Sagan . Sorau 1853, pp. 205-206.
Georg Steller: Land and landlords in the Principality of Sagan (1400 to 1940) . Sagan 1940, Kommissionsverlag Buchhandlung W. Daustein, Sagan, page 111 u. 112

Individual evidence

↑ Sołectwo Kotowice , nowogrodbobrz.pl
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e A. Leipelt: History of the city and the Duchy of Sagan . Sorau 1853, pp. 205-206.
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Freystadt district (Freistadt, Polish Kozuchów). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[1] Sołectwo Kotowice , nowogrodbobrz.pl

[AL-2] A. Leipelt: History of the city and the Duchy of Sagan . Sorau 1853, pp. 205-206.

[MR-3] A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Freystadt district (Freistadt, Polish Kozuchów). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).