Okrzeszyn

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Okrzeszyn (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lower Silesia
Powiat : Kamienna Góra
Geographic location : 50 ° 36 '  N , 16 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '0 "  N , 16 ° 1' 0"  E
Residents : 278
Postal code : 58-420
Telephone code : (+48) 75
License plate : DKA
Economy and Transport
Street : Trutnov - Chełmsko Śląskie
Next international airport : Wroclaw



Okrzeszyn (German Albendorf ) is a district of the rural community Lubawka ( Liebau i. Silesia ) in the powiat Kamiennogórski in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland.

geography

Okrzeszyn is located in the extreme south of the powiat Kamiennogórski directly on the border with the Czech Republic. Neighboring towns are Błażejów ( Blasdorf b. Schomberg ) and Uniemyśl ( Berthelsdorf ) in the north, Chełmsko Śląskie ( Schömberg ) in the northeast, Horní Adršpach in the east, Chvaleč the southeast, Petříkovice and Trutnov in the southwest, Zlatá Olešnice in the west and Bečkov , Bernartice and Královec in the north-west.

history

Church of the Birth of Mary with a neo-Gothic tower
Main altar of the Church of the Nativity of Mary
Ruins of the former St. Michaels Church
Okrzeszyn

Albendorf was probably founded in the 11th century and belonged to Bohemia . In 1359, together with Berthelsdorf and the area of ​​the upper stones around Friedland, it came to Bolko I von Schweidnitz , who donated the area to the Cistercian monastery Grüssau , with which it remained connected as an abbey village until the secularization in 1810. In 1368 it came to the Crown of Bohemia together with the Duchy of Schweidnitz-Jauer . In 1378 the Grüssau monastery also acquired the Albendorfer Scholtisei .

After the First Silesian War , Albendorf fell to Prussia in 1742, along with Silesia . After the reorganization of Prussia, it belonged to the province of Silesia from 1815 and from 1816 was incorporated into the Landeshut district, to which it belonged until 1945. It formed its own rural community and was the seat of the administrative district of the same name .

In addition to agriculture, house weaving, a brewery and a distillery were of economic importance. Since 1899 Albendorf was the terminus of the Ziederthalbahn .

As a result of the Second World War , Albendorf fell to Poland in 1945, like almost all of Silesia, and was initially renamed Albinów and a short time later Okrzeszyn . The German population was expelled. Some of the newly settled residents were displaced from eastern Poland . Due to the closure of the border with what was then Czechoslovakia , Okrzeszyn was isolated from other places, so that its tourist importance declined. From 1947, uranium was searched for for more than three years in the former “New Gabe God” coal mine. The search was stopped because the yield was too low. Passenger traffic on the railway was stopped on January 1, 1954, while freight traffic continued to Okrzeszyn until the end of 1959. The railroad tracks were dismantled in 1973. The former station building is still preserved. 1975-1998 Okrzeszyn belonged to the Jelenia Góra Voivodeship .

Attractions

  • The subsidiary church “Mariä Geburt” was built in 1724 as a foundation of the Grüssau monastery. The main altar with the statues of saints was created around 1670 by Georg Schrötter for the monastery church in Grüssau and later brought here. The side altars and the pulpit date from the 2nd half of the 18th century. The neo-Gothic tower was built in 1856.
  • The former rectory southwest of the church is from 1794. It is a two-storey late baroque building with a gable roof.
  • Ruins of the former St. Michaels Church

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ P. Ambrosius Rose: Grüssau Monastery . Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-8062-0126-9 , p. 35