Podgórzyn

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Podgórzyn
Podgórzyn coat of arms
Podgórzyn (Poland)
Podgórzyn
Podgórzyn
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lower Silesia
Powiat : Jelenia Gora
Geographic location : 50 ° 50 ′  N , 15 ° 41 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 57 "  N , 15 ° 41 ′ 1"  E
Height : 280 m npm
Residents : 1700 ()
Postal code : 58-562
Telephone code : (+48) 75
License plate : DJE
Economy and Transport
Street : Piechowice - Kowary
Next international airport : Wroclaw Nicolaus Copernicus Airport
Gmina
Gminatype: Rural community
Gmina structure: 10 school offices
Surface: 82.47 km²
Residents: 8260
(June 30, 2019)
Population density : 100 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 0206082
Administration (as of 2007)
Mayoress : Anna Latto
Address: ul. Żołnierska 14
58-562 Podgórzyn
Website : www.podgorzyn.pl



Podgórzyn [ pɔdˈguʒɨn ] (German Giersdorf ) is a place in the powiat Jeleniogórski in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland. It is the seat of the rural community of the same name and belongs to the Euroregion Neisse .

geography

The municipality extends about 12 km south of Jelenia Góra ( Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains ) along the southern edge of the Hirschberg Valley , some sub-towns are already in the Giant Mountains .

The main town Podgórzyn itself, at 350-480 m above sea level. NN on the Podgórna river, about 15 km away from the tourist centers Karpacz ( Krummhübel ) in the southeast and Szklarska Poręba ( Schreiberhau ) in the west, forms the gateway to the central section of the Polish mountain range. The highest mountain in the municipality is the Small Balaclava (Polish: Mały Szyszak ) at 1,440 m above sea level. NN. The municipality borders the Czech Republic in the south ; the state border runs on the main ridge of the Giant Mountains.

history

The Hirschberger Talbahn in Nieder-Giersdorf with the Giant Mountains in the background, around 1925
The Hirschberger Talbahn

Podgórzyn is believed to have been founded by the Cistercians from the Heinrichau monastery from the 13th century. The place is first mentioned in writing as Gerardi villa 1305 in a monk's chronicle, while in 1348 the name Gierßdorf is already used in a document of the Piast dynasty of the Duchy of Schweidnitz-Jauer .

Giersdorf changed hands several times and came into the possession of the Schaffgotsch family, who were very influential in this part of Silesia , after an expropriation by imperial orders during the Thirty Years' War and decades of legal dispute . This circumstance gave Giersdorf a long-lasting economic upturn. As early as the beginning of the 17th century, a bell foundry with an attached cannon forge had been built in the village , the products of which were exported to Spain. A paper mill followed in 1681 and two sawmills at the end of the 18th century . During the first half of the 19th century a glass grinding shop started operations.

Tourism flourished as early as the 19th century. In 1911 the Hirschberger Talbahn was opened, a tram line that connected Giersdorf with Bad Warmbrunn and Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains and whose final stop was placed at the starting point of the local hiking trails in the Giant Mountains .

During the Second World War , now in the Polish area of Dolnoslaskie , Giersdorf was renamed Podgórzyn in 1946 and the German population was expelled. From 1975 to 1998 Podgórzyn belongs to the former Jelenia Góra Voivodeship, which has been part of the new Lower Silesian Voivodeship since 1999 .

Attractions

The picturesque landscape at the transition from the Hirschberg Valley to the Giant Mountains is well worth seeing , some with old oak avenues. The Giersdorf ponds ( stawy Podgórzyńskie ) at the foot of the mountains represent a specialty . It is a system of large interconnected fish ponds, the origins of which go back to the Cistercians of the 13th century, and at the same time the highest complex of this type in this area Part of Central Europe. The mountain panorama can also be admired particularly well from the fish restaurants by the ponds.

The Sosnówka Dam ( Zbiornik Sosnówka or Jezioro Sosnówka ) , which was completed in the 1990s and has a dam of 1.5 km in length and 20 m in height and an area of ​​1.7 km² (as drinking water), extends between Podgórzyn and the district of Sosnówka . Reservoir closed to the public). The castle in the Staniszów ( Stonsdorf ) district is also worth seeing . Very near Podgórzyn lies the castle Chojnik ( Chojnik Castle ).

The municipality above Borowice ( Baberhäuser ) and Przesieka ( Hain ) belongs to the Karkonoski Park Narodowy ( Giant Mountains National Park ). Numerous hiking trails lead to all parts of the mountains. Over the Spindlerpass ( Przełęcz Karkonoska , Czech. Slezské sedlo ) with the Polish mountain hut Schronisko Odrodzenie and the Czech Špindlerova bouda ( Spindlerbaude ) you get over to Špindlerův Mlýn ( Spindleruv Mlyn ) in the Czech Republic.

local community

The rural community ( gmina wiejska ) Podgórzyn is made up of the following districts in addition to the eponymous capital:

Partnerships

Say

In Giersdorf, the Rübezahl saga The lying cloth cutter plays . According to the legend, a cloth shearer served up boastful lies during a hike to Rübezahl. To say goodbye, Rübezahl conjured up a huge nose in the shearer's face, which was surrounded by smaller noses. It wasn't until the next day the cloth cutter promised never to tell lies again that he got his original face back.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Szukacz.pl, Podgórzyn - Informacje dodatkowe ( Memento of April 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ^ E. Berger, Rübezahl and other mountain sagas , Gustav Fock bookstore, page 109 ff.