Powidzko

Powidzko
	Powidzko
	Powidzko
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lower Silesia
Powiat :	Trzebnica
Geographic location :	51 ° 27 ' N , 16 ° 58' E Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '0 " N , 16 ° 58' 0" E
Residents :	200
Telephone code :	(+48) 71
License plate :	DTR
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Wroclaw
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Powidzko ( German Powitzko , 1937-1945: Urdorf ) is a village in the municipality Żmigród in the powiat Trzebnicki of the Polish Voivodeship of Lower Silesia . It is located about five kilometers southeast of today's Zmigród and has about 200 inhabitants.

German until 1945, the village lost its Slavic name in the course of the Germanization of the Silesian place names during the National Socialist era . For many centuries the village belonged to the estate complex of the Trachenberg rule, which had been owned by the Hatzfeldt family since the 17th century.

The Powitzko manor had an area of 178 hectares, including 137 fields, 23 meadows and 7 pastures.

On January 9, 1658, the imperial field marshal Melchior Graf von Hatzfeldt , landlord of Trachenberg, died here .

Attractions

Village church of St. John the Baptist , built 1787–88, baroque and classicism , with a medieval wooden crucifix ;
in the vicinity of the village: border post of the free estates Trachenberg, Militsch and the possessions of the Trzebnica monastery .

Sons and daughters of the village

Carl Christoph von Hoffmann (born August 6, 1735 - January 9, 1801), Prussian privy councilor and chancellor of the University of Halle

literature

Silesian Goods Address Book , Breslau 1937