Piekary (Udanin)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lower Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Środa Śląska | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 2 ' N , 16 ° 26' E | ||
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| Postal code : | 55-340 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 76 | ||
| License plate : | DSR | ||
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| Street : | motorway A4 | ||
| Next international airport : | Wroclaw | ||
Piekary ( German Beckern ) is a former monastery village that today belongs to the rural community of Udanin in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland . Until 1932 it belonged to the Striegau district , then to the Neumarkt district in the German Empire .
geography
Piekary is located about ten kilometers northeast of Striegau. It was on the Striegau - Maltsch railway line . The coal road coming from Waldenburg leads only three kilometers to the west via Striegau and Lüssen to Maltsch past the village. Beckern is easily accessible from the north via the Breslau - Berlin motorway. It lies in a very shallow depression, about 170 to 180 meters above sea level.
history
Before German immigration
Nothing has been handed down in writing about this time, but numerous archaeological finds attest to pre-Christian settlement. South of the village boundary, roughly where the family bath is located today, graves from the older and younger Bronze Age (1450 to 650 BC) and from the earlier Iron Age (650 to 450 BC) were found in the period from 1860 to 1909 BC). In the north of the village, on a plateau between Leisebach and the train station, graves from around 1200 to 1000 BC can be found. Chr. Found. To the west of the village and south of the road to Konary (Kuhnern) was another burial ground, which, after the urns, humpback vessels and accessory vessels, dates back to 1200 to 800 BC. Can be classified. In the south, south-east and north, other finds from similar periods were made.
First mentions
The village is first mentioned in a document in 1305 as Peckir circa Pelascovitz (Beckern near Pläswitz ). A Konrad von Be (k) kern can be found in other documents. Germans probably immigrated to the area before these were mentioned, but this cannot be precisely determined.
Monastery village
On March 5, 1347, Mrs. Helke, the mother of the knight Conrad von Czirn, donated the entire village of Beckern to the monastery in Striegau “with a happy face”. In the same year the Beckner Church of St. Martin is mentioned for the first time. In 1576 12 farmers lived in Beckern and had 390 hectares of arable land available. After the village church burned down in 1719, it was rebuilt in 1723 and consecrated to John the Baptist. When the region became Prussian in 1742, the Striegauer Stift not only had to tax the income at fifty percent. In addition, a lot of money had to be spent on economic arrangements: construction of a linen and lace factory, promotion of rapeseed cultivation and planting of mulberry trees for sericulture in the monastery villages. Prussia even ordered the nuns to set up spinning schools and raise bees in their villages. The monastery was forced to pledge the income from the monastery villages, including from Beckern, and to take out mortgages. The end of the monastery era was approaching. In 1765, eleven farmers, seven gardeners, 4 free-men and 9 cottagers lived in Beckern. In 1785 Beckern has 235 Catholic inhabitants and covers 546 hectares of arable land. A royal cabinet order of 1810 repealed all monasteries and nationalized their goods. After 463 years, Beckern ceased to be a monastery village.
church
Mentioned for the first time in 1335, the church is definitely the oldest building in the village. At the time of the Thirty Years' War, Luther's teaching had also gained a foothold in Beckern. According to an episcopal visitation report from 1651, the church at that time was made of stone with a vault over the altar and a wooden roof that was very torn. Little by little the village was re-Catholicized. The church burned down in 1719 and was rebuilt four years later, with today's baroque interior. In 1828 the church received a massive roof and in the following year the current steeple. The octagonal baptismal font is made of sandstone and dates from 1492. Two bells hang in the tower, one of which dates from 1557. A third bell was removed for armament purposes during World War II. Beckern was a Kuhnern branch until 1900, and since then the community has been its own parish, to which Gäbersdorf and its St. Ursula, Diesdorf, Förstchen, Lohnig and Taubnitz branch belonged. Until 1946 four pastors were active in Beckern. The first Polish pastor, Piotr Purgol, is said to have spoken fluent German.
Sons and daughters of the place
- Emanuel Adler (1845–1926), composer and organist
literature
- Julius Filla: Chronicle of the city of Striegau, from the oldest times up to the year 1889. P. 12; 20; 99; 167; 277
- Paul Boenisch: The historical development of rural conditions in Central Silesia. Dissertation from the University of Jena. Merseburg 1894 - p. 33 ff .; 44; 48; 52
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of sites in the Beckern district, Striegau district. In: Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu, Sygn. 739
- ^ Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu, Rep. 123. Documents of the Benedictine monastery in Striegau
- ^ Theo Richter: Never again expulsion: Beckern - Chronicle of a Silesian monastery village , 2004
- ↑ Ruth Lipinski: Heimatkirchen tell Heimatgeschichte in: Bote from the Silesian Burgenland monthly magazine No. 8 and 9/1994, p. 58