Krzyżowa
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lower Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Świdnica | ||
| Gmina : | Świdnica | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 48 ' N , 16 ° 32' E | ||
| Height : | 230 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 220 (2006) | ||
| Postal code : | 58-112 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 74 | ||
| License plate : | DSW | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Dzierżoniów - Świdnica | ||
| Rail route : | Kamieniec Ząbkowicki – Jaworzyna Śląska | ||
| Next international airport : | Wroclaw | ||
Krzyżowa [ kʃɨˈʒɔva ] (German Kreisau , until 1930 Creisau ) is a village with about 200 inhabitants in the Powiat Świdnicki (Lower Silesia) . It is located 10 km east of Schweidnitz and belongs to the Gmina Świdnica . The Moltke Castle in the center of the village has served as the Kreisau International Youth Meeting Center since 1998 , operated by the Kreisau Foundation for European Understanding .
history
Kreisau was best known through the von Moltke family. The Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke , Chief of Staff in the German-Danish War in 1864, in the Prussian-Austrian War in 1866 and in the Franco-German War of 1870/71, acquired the estate on August 1, 1867 as a retirement home.
His great-great-nephew Helmuth James von Moltke was one of the leading figures in the Kreisau Circle resistance group . In 1942 and 1943, three secret meetings of this group took place in the Berghaus, which belonged to the estate as the family home. A possible post-war order without Adolf Hitler was discussed here.
After the war, together with the province of Silesia, Kreisau came under Polish administration and was renamed Krzyżowa. Out of the need to keep the memory of the Kreisau Circle alive, the Kreisau Foundation for European Understanding , in which Poles and Germans , but also people from other European countries and the USA were involved , arose in 1989/1990 as part of the European citizens' movement . On the estate of a German-Polish Krzyżowa found on 12 November 1989 Reconciliation - Fair held at the then-Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the then Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki took part. Helmut Kohl visited the place again in 1998 when the International Youth Meeting Center Kreisau was opened.
Music for Europe
Viviane Hagner and Matthias von Hülsen initiated the Krzyżowa-Music Chamber Music Festival in 2013 . It is under the auspices of the Foreign Ministers of Poland and Germany.
traffic
The Krzyżowa stop is on the Katowice – Legnica railway line .
Sons of the place
- Carl-Dietrich von Trotha (1907–1952), civil servant, member of the Kreisau Circle
- Helmuth James Graf von Moltke (1907–1945), lawyer, founder of the Kreisau Circle resistance group
literature
- Freya von Moltke : Memories of Kreisau 1930-1945 . Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-42653-0 .
- Kreisau-Initiative Berlin and Kreisau Foundation for European Understanding (ed.): Kreisau - Krzyżowa: History and Future Workshop for Europe . DKV-Edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-02179-2 .
Web links
- Kreisau-Initiative Würzburg e. V.
- Freya von Moltke Foundation for the New Kreisau
- Genius loci as a good spirit - Trinational student colloquium on resistance in Kreisau (Ostdeutscher Kulturrat 2008)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Horst (Ed.): Moltke. Life and work in self-testimonies. Letters, writings, speeches , Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Dieterich Collection, Volume 5, Leipzig 1937, p. 296. There also his description of the property during a longer stay in autumn 1867.
- ^ Krzyżowa Music