Krzeszów (Kamienna Góra)

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Krzeszów
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Krzeszów (Poland)
Krzeszów
Krzeszów
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lower Silesia
Powiat : Kamienna Góra
Gmina : Kamienna Góra
Geographic location : 50 ° 44 '  N , 16 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 44 '3 "  N , 16 ° 3' 51"  E
Residents : 1400
Postal code : 58-405
Telephone code : (+48) 75
License plate : DKA
Economy and Transport
Street : Kamienna Góra - Mieroszów
Next international airport : Wroclaw



In front of the Grüssau monastery
Sculptures on the facade of the Grüssau monastery church

Krzeszów ( German Grüssau ) is a district of the rural community Kamienna Góra ( Landeshut ) in the powiat Kamiennogórski in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland. The Betlejem location, two kilometers to the west, belongs to Krzeszów .

Statue of the Bohemian St. Johannes Nepomuk
St. Joseph Church
Cistercian monument

geography

Krzeszów Six kilometers southeast of Kamienna Gora in a mountain valley by the stream Zadrna ( Zieder ). Neighboring towns are Czarny Bór and Grzędy in the northeast, Unisław Śląski in the east, Gorzeszów and Krzeszówek in the southeast, Jawiszów ( Kleinhennersdorf ) and Chełmsko Śląskie in the south, Ulanowice and Lubawka in the southwest and Przedwojów ( Reichhennersdorf ).

history

Grüssau, whose area belonged to Bohemia until 1289 , was first mentioned on May 8, 1242 as "Grissobor" in the deed of foundation of the Benedictine Provosty of Grüssau . The foundation was made by Duchess Anna of Bohemia , widow of Duke Henry II the Pious. The provost's office was settled by Benedictine monks from the Bohemian Opatowitz monastery , from whom Duke Bolko I acquired the Grüssau area in 1289. With Grissobor , the border forest was probably initially meant, the name of which was first used for newcomers and which was only transferred to the newly founded Cistercian monastery (with monastery library) and the settlement around the monastery in 1292 . In the following, the later new was referred to as "antiqua Gryssow" ( Alt Grüssau ).

Grüssau was the headquarters of the eponymous Stiftsland , which in the 14th century included almost 40 villages and the two monastery towns of Liebau and Schömberg. After the death of Duke Bolko II , the Stiftsland together with the Duchy of Schweidnitz came under inheritance law to the Crown of Bohemia , with Bolko's widow Agnes von Habsburg being entitled to usufruct until her death in 1392 . In 1426, Grüssau was sacked by Hussite troops and 70 monks were killed. In the Thirty Years' War it was burned 1,633th

As a result of the First Silesian War , Grüssau and Silesia fell to Prussia in 1742 . In 1810 the monastery property was secularized. After the reorganization of Prussia, Grüssau came to the province of Silesia in 1815 and from 1816 belonged to the Landeshut district . Since 1874 Grüssau was the seat of the district of the same name . In 1885 it had mostly Catholic residents in 1969. In 1899 Grüssau was connected to the Landeshut – Albendorf line of the Ziederthal Railway Company .

During the Second World War , Grüssau experienced a checkered history due to the events associated with the confiscation of the monastery buildings . In 1945 the place was taken by the Red Army as part of the Vistula-Oder operation . According to the agreements of the Potsdam Agreement , Grüssau fell to Poland in 1945, like almost all of Silesia, and was first renamed Gryszów , then Krzeszobórz and finally Krzeszów in 1947 . The German population was expelled unless they had already fled. Some of the new residents were displaced from eastern Poland , which had fallen to the Soviet Union. The Grüssau monastery was settled in 1947 by Polish Benedictine nuns from Lemberg . From 1975 to 1998 Krzeszów was part of the Jelenia Góra Voivodeship .

literature

Web links

Commons : Krzeszów  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grzegorz Grajewski (2005), pp. 496 and 502.
  2. ^ Ambrosius Rose: Grüssau Monastery. Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-8062-0126-9 , p. 15.