Pilcz

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Pilcz (German Piltsch , Czech Pileč ) is a village in the powiat Kłodzki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland. Since 1937 it has been a part of Rengersdorf, which was renamed Krosnowice after the transition to Poland in 1945 . With this it belongs to the rural community Kłodzko ( Glatz ) from which it is five kilometers south.

geography

Pilcz is located on a rocky hill in the valley of the Glatzer Neisse , into which the Landecker Biele flows. Neighboring towns are Pawłowa ( Quergasse ) in the north, Jaszkowa Dolna in the northeast, Krosnowice in the south and Stary Wielisław Dolny ( Niederaltwilmsdorf ) in the northwest. To the west rises the 400 m high Polana ( Plattenhübel ).

history

Piltsch was one of the oldest villages in the Glatzer Land , with which it shared the history of its political and ecclesiastical affiliation. It was a Bohemian royal chamber property and was first mentioned in 1331 as "Pilncze". Other spellings were 1349 bey dem Polcze , 1489 Piltsch and 1623 zum Pöltsch . A fortress is said to have stood on a hill, which is said to have been destroyed by the Poles in the armed conflict between Bohemia and Poland for supremacy in Silesia . The wars were settled in 1137 with the Pentecostal Peace of Glatz . This hill is said to have been referred to by the locals as the Schlossberg until modern times .

Since the residents were obliged to act as hereditary guardians of the Glatzer Castle, they enjoyed certain privileges. In 1331 the Bohemian King John of Luxembourg confirmed their rights and freedoms and obliged them to guard the Kłodzko Castle with eight people all year round. The privileges included the free chopping of wood in the royal forest and the freedom to go into the city of Glatz with impunity armed with spears and swords. The Burggrave of Glatzer was obliged to give the guards two pieces of gray cloth for clothes every year. King Wenceslas IV confirmed the privileges and freedoms in a letter drawn up in Glatz on December 30, 1409, and at the same time ordered that the guards should be given a large mug of beer and eight small loaves of bread every night. In 1436 King Sigismund confirmed , in 1489 Duke Heinrich the Elder. Ä. in his capacity as Graf von Glatz, the privileges and rights. This also allowed the residents to pour beer at the Rengersdorfer Kirchweih.

In the middle of the 16th century, the inhabitants of Piltsch were freed from the security services at the Glatzer Castle and instead had to pay a so-called watch fee to the royal rent office every six months. In addition, the free supply of wood from the royal forests was restricted.

During the Thirty Years' War , Piltsch was burned down by the Swedish troops on October 22, 1646. In 1680 several people died of the then rampant plague.

After the Silesian Wars , Piltsch and the County of Glatz came to Prussia in 1763 with the Peace of Hubertusburg . Eight farmsteads as well as one gardener and three cottager jobs are documented for 1799 . The number of inhabitants was 92.

After the reorganization of Prussia, Piltsch belonged to the province of Silesia from 1815 and was incorporated into the district of Glatz from 1816–1945 . Since February 28, 1874, the rural community Piltsch belonged to the district of Rengersdorf. In 1925 there were 94 inhabitants. On April 1, 1937, the rural community Piltsch was incorporated into the community Rengersdorf, with which it fell to Poland as a result of the Second World War in 1945 and was renamed Pilcz .

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  1. ↑ Marek Šebela, Jiři Fišer: České Názvy hraničních Vrchů, Sídel a vodních toků v Kladsku . In: Kladský sborník 5, 2003, p. 376