New Silesia

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Location of New Silesia
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New Silesia on a map of Silesia by Franz Ludwig Güssefeld (1799)
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             Borders of New Silesia             Limits of the Duchy of Siewierz
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    • New Silesia was a small Prussian area that had fallen to Prussia after the Third Partition of Poland in 1795 and consisted of the two districts of Pilica and Siewierz. It was northwest of Krakow and south of Czestochowa .

    It had an area of ​​2230 km² and counted 76,634 inhabitants in 1796 in 17 cities, 264 villages and 36 hamlets. The Siewierz District comprised 9 towns ( Będzin , Koziegłowy , Modrzejów until 1801, Mrzygłód , Niwki until 1801, Olsztyn , Siewierz , Sławków and Czeladź ) as well as 102 villages and 22 hamlets. There were 8 towns in Pilica County ( Janów , Kromołów , Lelów , Ogrodzieniec , Pilica , Szczekociny - the smaller part on the left bank, Włodowiceand Żarki ), 162 villages and 14 hamlets.

    The little country included on the western edge the owned by the bishops of Krakow located Duchy Severia or Siewierz, with the same capital and Koziegłowy and Czeladź.

    The province was administered from Breslau , only the administration of justice was carried out from Petrikau and then from Kalisch, since the Polish laws continued to apply in the country and knowledge of which was more widespread in the neighboring South Prussian government. The main town was Siewierz, which had previously been the seat of the bishops of Krakow in their function as dukes of Siewierz . The 48 Roman Catholic parishes were attached to the Diocese of Wroclaw on October 9, 1800 (until 1811). After the defeat of Prussia in the Fourth Coalition in 1807, the area came after the Treaty of Tilsit the Duchy of Warsaw and in 1815 the Russian Titularkönigreich Poland .

    New Silesia was often considered to be the beginning of the Zagłębie Dąbrowskie historical-industrial landscape , because it was at this time that industrial development began in the area. Leopold von Buch drew the first geological map of the area in 1805. The coal , which the citizens of Będzin used for heating, was now to be used industrially. The name of the first colliery in the area from 1796 and of the Reden district in Dąbrowa Górnicza , because it was named after the chief miner Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden , comes from this time . The Hoym mine from 1797 not far from Reden was the second oldest in the area.

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ a b Andrzej J. Wójcik: Dzieje rozpoznania kopalin na obszarze dawnego księstwa siewierskiego oraz pierwszy opis i mapa geologiczno-górnicza regionu . Instytut Historii Nauki PAN, Warszawa 2010 (Polish, online [PDF]).

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