Kowalowa (Mieroszów)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lower Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Wałbrzyski | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 41 ′ N , 16 ° 13 ′ E | ||
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| Telephone code : | (+48) 74 | ||
| License plate : | DBA | ||
Kowalowa (German Schmidtsdorf ) is a village in the powiat Wałbrzyski in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland. It is located two kilometers north of Mieroszów ( Friedland in Silesia ), to whose urban and rural municipality it belongs.
geography
Kowalowa is located in the south of the Waldenburger Bergland near the border with the Czech Republic. Neighboring towns are Unisław Śląski and Sokołowsko in the northeast, Nowe Siodło in the southeast, Mieroszów and Golińsk in the south, Różana in the southwest and Kochanów in the west. Across the border with the Czech Republic, which is reached via the Mieroszów- Meziměstí border crossing , lies Pomeznice ( Grenzdörfel ) in the southeast . In the east rises the 880 m high Ruprechtický Špičák ( Ruppertsdorfer Spitzberg ).
history
The settlement of the upper Steinetal , which at that time was administratively counted as part of the Glatzer Land , took place around 1250 by the East Bohemian Benedictine monastery in Politz . Schmidtsdorf was first mentioned as "Smedisdorf" in 1350 in a list of the villages belonging to the Bohemian castle district of Freudenburg . Together with the Freudenburg it came to the Duchy of Schweidnitz in 1359 . After the death of Duke Bolko II in 1368 it fell to Bohemia under inheritance law, whereby his widow Agnes von Habsburg was entitled to usufruct until her death in 1392 . After the Hussite Wars , Schmidtsdorf and other villages in the former Freudenburg district came under the rule of Fürstenstein , which was owned by the von Hochberg ( Hohberg; Hohberg ) noble family from 1509 . For the year 1711 in Schmidtsdorf: six farmers, seven half-farmers, eight cottagers , five Freihäusler and six housemates . In 1735 seven house weavers lived in Schmidtsdorf.
After the First Silesian War , Schmidtsdorf and Silesia fell to Prussia in 1742 . After the reorganization of Prussia, it belonged to the province of Silesia from 1815 and from 1816 was incorporated into the Waldenburg district, with which it remained connected until 1945. In 1818 181 people lived in Neudorf, in 1840 there were 346, 1905 517 and in 1939 finally 561. Since 1874 Schmidtsdorf belonged together with the rural communities of Görbersdorf and Nieder Waltersdorf to the district of Görbersdorf. In 1877 a new school was built. In addition to agriculture, home weaving was of economic importance. Five house weavers are recorded for 1735 and 25 in 1840. In 1876, 20 hand weaver families lived in Schmidtsdorf. Due to its proximity to Görbersdorf, Schmidtsdorf also developed into a climatic health resort with a sanatorium and pensions.
In 1934, the previously independent rural community of Niederwaltersdorf was incorporated into Schmidtsdorf.
As a result of the Second World War , Schmidtsdorf fell to Poland in 1945, like almost all of Silesia, and was renamed Kowalowa . The German population was expelled. Some of the new residents were displaced from eastern Poland .
From 1975 to 1998 Nowe Siodło belonged to the Wałbrzych Voivodeship ( Waldenburg ).
literature
- Heinrich Bartsch: Unforgettable Waldenburg homeland . Norden (Ostfriesland) 1969, p. 354.
Web links
- Historical and current recordings as well as geographical location
- Directory of the Waldenburg district
- District of Görbersdorf
- History of the city of Friedland and associated villages
- Villages belonging to the Freudenburg castle district (PDF file; 20 kB)
- Freudenburg Castle District
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dz.U. 1975 no 17 poz. 92 (Polish) (PDF; 802 kB)