Piotrowice Świdnickie

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Piotrowice Świdnickie (Poland)
Piotrowice Świdnickie
Piotrowice Świdnickie
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lower Silesia
Powiat : Świdnica
Geographic location : 50 ° 56 '  N , 16 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '0 "  N , 16 ° 27' 0"  E
Residents : 743 (2011)
Postal code : 58-140
Telephone code : (+48) 74
License plate : DSW
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Wroclaw



Piotrowice Świdnickie (German Peterwitz ) is a place in the municipality Jaworzyna Śląska ( Königszelt ) in the Powiat Świdnicki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland .

Geographical location

Piotrowice Świdnickie is located 11 kilometers northwest of the district town Świdnica . Neighboring towns are Łażany and Żarów in the north-west, Bożanów ( Eckersdorf ) and Wierzbna in the south-east, Nowice ( Neudorf ) in the south, Jaworzyna Śląska in the south-west, Czechy ( Czechs ) in the west and Pastuchów in the north-west.

history

Ruins of Peterwitz Palace (2012)
Exaltation of the Cross Church

Peterwitz was probably founded at the end of the 12th century on the edge of the Preseka . After 1241 it was implemented under German law and settled with German farmers, whose fields were won through further clearing and draining of swamps. The church was built around 1260 and in 1266 a pastor Gerhard was mentioned. After the division of the Duchy of Breslau in 1278, Peterwitz belonged to the Duchy of Schweidnitz . Together with this it fell to the crown of Bohemia after the death of Duke Bolkos II in 1368 .

Peterwitz was the seat of a manor and a hereditary scholtisei , which is documented as a knight's seat for the year 1416. In the 15th century it was owned by the Lords of Liebenthal as a fiefdom of the Bohemian King , followed by the Lords of Logau . In 1469 it belonged to Diprand von Reibnitz , from whom his son Niklas inherited it. Georg von Reibnitz sold Peterwitz in 1559 to the brothers Christoph, Jakob and Georg von Zedlitz . From the middle of the 16th century, the Peterwitz church served as a Protestant church. 1568–1594 Jakob von Zedlitz was the sole owner. He built the Renaissance moated castle from 1590–1599 and in 1600 united the manors of Laasan , Saarau , Peterwitz and Neudorf to form a majorate . In 1609 Peterwitz was in the possession of Abraham von Zedlitz, from whom Siegmund von Nostitz presumably acquired it in 1622 , who resided in Laasan Castle. After that, the Peterwitz Castle served as a manor for servants. The destruction of the Thirty Years' War was repaired under the Nostitz . They carried out the Counter-Reformation and returned the church to the Catholics in 1654. Subsequently, the church lost the status of a parish church and became a subsidiary church of Puschkau.

After the First Silesian War , Peterwitz fell to Prussia in 1742, like almost all of Silesia . In 1742 Baroness Beate Abigail von Siegroth, widow after Karl Gottlieb von Nostitz since 1741, built a Protestant prayer house in Peterwitz. A year later she married the Prussian field marshal Wilhelm Dietrich von Buddenbrock , who was buried in the church of Peterwitz after his death in 1757. After the death of his widow Beate Abigail in 1770, the Counts of Burghauß inherited Peterwitz , who were followed in 1885 by the Counts of Pfeil-Burghauß . As early as 1874, the district of Peterwitz was formed, which consisted of the rural communities Neudorf, Peterwitz and Saarau and the associated manor districts. A large Protestant church was built between 1880 and 1883. In 1939 there were 1,226 inhabitants in Peterwitz.

As a result of the Second World War , Peterwitz fell to Poland along with almost all of Silesia in 1945 and was renamed Piotrowice Świdnickie . The Protestant church was left to decay and demolished in the late 1950s. The German population was expelled. 1975-1998 Piotrowice Świdnickie belonged to the Wałbrzych Voivodeship (German Waldenburg ). This was dissolved with the administrative reform in 1999. Since then, Piotrowice Świdnickie has been part of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.

Attractions

  • The Church of the Exaltation of the Cross, built around 1260, is said to be the second oldest village church in the Schweidnitzer Land.
  • The Peterwitz Castle was built in the late 16th century by Jakob von Zedlitz in the Renaissance style. After the destruction of the Thirty Years War, it was rebuilt in the second half of the 17th century and modernized in 1799 and 1894. After the Second World War it was left to decay and devastated . In the 1970s, security measures were taken on the ruin.

literature

Web links

Commons : Piotrowice Świdnickie  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Poland census on March 31, 2011