Piechowice

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Piechowice
Coat of arms of Piechowice
Piechowice (Poland)
Piechowice
Piechowice
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lower Silesia
Powiat : Jelenia Gora
Area : 43.29  km²
Geographic location : 50 ° 51 '  N , 15 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 50 '55 "  N , 15 ° 36' 32"  E
Height : 360 m npm
Residents : 6194
(June 30, 2019)
Postal code : 58-571 to 58-573
Telephone code : (+48) 75
License plate : DJE
Economy and Transport
Street : E 65 Szczecin - Prague
Rail route : Jelenia Góra – Szklarska Poręba – Kořenov
Next international airport : Wroclaw
Gmina
Gminatype: Borough
Residents: 6194
(June 30, 2019)
Community number  ( GUS ): 0206031
Administration (as of 2014)
Mayor : Witold Rudolf
Address: ul. Żymierskiego 49
58-573 Piechowice
Website : www.piechowice.pl



Piechowice [ pʲɛxɔˈvʲitsɛ ] (German Petersdorf ) is a city in southwest Poland . It is located in the Powiat Jeleniogórski of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship at the foot of the Giant Mountains . The city belongs to the Euroregion Neisse .

Geography and traffic

Piechowice is located in the Hirschberg Valley between the Giant Mountains in the south and the eastern foothills of the Jizera Mountains in the west. It is located about ten kilometers southwest of Jelenia Góra and five kilometers northeast of Szklarska Poręba . The river Kamienna (Zacken) flows through the city, through which also the trunk road E 65 ( Stettin - Prague ) and the railway line Jelenia Góra - Szklarska Poręba, formerly called Zackenbahn , run. The highest mountain in the urban area is the High wheel (Polish Wielki Szyszak ) 1509 m above sea level. NN, directly on the border with the Czech Republic in the south.

City structure

The core town of Piechowice also includes the following surrounding districts:

  • Górzyniec (Hartenberg)
  • Michałowice (gravel forest)
  • Pakoszów (Wernersdorf)
  • Piastów (Kaiserswaldau)

Culture and sights

Some of the most beautiful parts of the Giant Mountains belong to the municipality of Piechowice. The snow pits ( Śnieżne Kotły ) at an altitude of 1200 to 1450 m are particularly worth seeing - two large glacial cirques with small cirques and sometimes 200-meter-high rock faces directly below the main mountain ridge. As a result of the sun-protected location, the snow in these karen stays well into June.

Other excursion destinations are the 13.5 m high Wodospad Szklarki ( Kochelfall ) and the Złoty Widok ("Golden View") viewpoint above Michałowice with a view of the north side of the Giant Mountains. The Chojnik ( Kynast ) castle ruins are very close by . A significant part of the urban area is within the National Park Karkonoski Park Narodowy (KPN) ( "Giant Mountains National Park"). Wernersdorf Castle (Pałac w Pakoszowie) , a building that was rebuilt in 1725, restored and opened as a hotel in April 2012, is also located in a park on the edge of the Wernersdorf district .

Although only a small town, Piechowice has a rich cultural life. Numerous visual artists are based in the city. There are also two independent theaters founded in the Michałowice district in the early 1990s: the Teatr Nasz , directed by Jadwiga and Tadeusz Kut, and the Teatr Cinema by Katarzyna Rotkiewicz-Szumska and Zbigniew Szumski, which is attracting national and increasingly international attention.

In addition, the town of Piechowicki Ośrodek Kultury regularly organizes cultural events.

  • Chojnik castle ruins
    (Kynastburg)

  • High wheel (left) with the two snow pits, in between on the ridge the snow pit hut

  • View into the large (eastern) snow pit and the snow pit hut

Personalities

Other personalities

  • Johann Tobias Volkmar (1718–1787), German Protestant pastor and geographer; wrote a scientific description of the Giant Mountains
  • Paweł Trybalski (* 1937 in Hostynne near Zamość ), Polish painter and graphic artist. Exhibits worldwide and has lived in the Michałowice district since 1989

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .