Prochowice
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lower Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Legnica | ||
| Area : | 9.85 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 16 ' N , 16 ° 22' E | ||
| Height : | 110 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 3602 (June 30, 2019) |
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| Postal code : | 59-225 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 76 | ||
| License plate : | DLE | ||
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| Street : | DK 94 Strzelno - Krakow | ||
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DK 36 Prochowice– Ostrów Wlkp. |
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| Next international airport : | Wroclaw | ||
| Gmina | |||
| Gminatype: | Urban-and-rural parish | ||
| Gmina structure: | 12 school offices | ||
| Surface: | 102.62 km² | ||
| Residents: | 7450 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Population density : | 73 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Community number ( GUS ): | 0209073 | ||
| Administration (as of 2009) | |||
| Mayor : | Halina Kołodziejska | ||
| Address: | Rynek 1 59-230 Prochowice |
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| Website : | www.prochowice.com | ||
Prochowice ( German Parchwitz) is a country town in southwestern Poland . It is the capital of the town-and-country municipality of the same name in the Powiat Legnicki of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship and is located near the Oderknie not far from the Leubus Monastery , about 40 km west of Wroclaw .
geography
The Lower Silesia Prochowice is located 15 kilometers northeast of the county seat Legnica (Legnica) and 45 kilometers northwest of Wroclaw at the Katzbach , from the mouth of the Oder .
history
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In the 13th century an urban settlement arose on the traffic routes from Breslau to Glogau and Görlitz , which had had a church since 1217. In 1280 Parchwitz was granted town charter, which was confirmed in 1293 by Duke Bolko I of Schweidnitz . At the turn of the 13th to the 14th century, a castle was built on the left bank of the Katzbach. The Duchy of Liegnitz , to which Parchwitz belonged, broke away from Poland and in 1329 submitted to the Crown of Bohemia .
Accompanied by many changes of ownership, the city achieved a certain degree of prosperity. Crafts and agriculture were important. From 1374 to 1814 Parchwitz had the salt trading monopoly for the area. In 1424 the local town hall was mentioned and in 1426 the stone construction of the St. Andrew's Church was completed. After the devastation by the Hussites on October 11, 1428, Pachwitz was walled from 1430 to 1450. Five entrances were let into the city wall: The Breslauer, Liegnitzer, Glogauer and Wohlauer Tor as well as the brewery gate. In 1484 the burial church of St. Spirito was mentioned.
With Bohemia, Silesia came under the rule of the Catholic Habsburgs in 1526 and after the Liegnitz-Brieger Piast dying out in 1675, the area and the ducal castle became their property. In Pachwitz itself, supported by the Dukes of Liegnitz-Brieg, the Reformation had prevailed - the parish church had become Protestant in 1556, but then had to be returned to the Catholics in 1700. With the Altranstadt Convention in 1707 it became Protestant again (until its residents were expelled in 1945), and a new Catholic church with a school was built at the same time. During the Thirty Years' War Parchwitz was looted and burned down on the orders of Lennart Torstensson in 1642 . Another city fire raged in 1683. Finally, a cholera epidemic in 1658 decimated the population of the city.
In 1742 Parchwitz was assigned to Prussia and in 1816 to the new district of Liegnitz , whose only town next to Liegnitz was Parchwitz . In the 18th century the city experienced an upswing. After the city fire of 1769, it was rebuilt until 1770 with the support of King Frederick the Great . The town hall with guard, city scales and council cellar as well as 46 solid stone houses were built. In 1784 a water pipe was built .
The city chronicle shows that Parchwitz was crossed by 75,000 soldiers in the course of the Napoleonic Wars from 1806 to 1808 , and that in 1813 almost 10,000 soldiers were stationed in the barracks built for this purpose. The city's economic boom continued in the 19th century, the city walls were torn down, the Liegnitz – Steinau railway line was opened in 1898 and numerous businesses were established. The Catholic Church had been unusable since 1838, which is why the Catholic community used the Protestant burial church and in 1847 built the neo-Gothic Church of St. Johannes Baptist elsewhere.
After the Second World War , Parchwitz came under Polish administration in 1945, was named Prochowice and was assigned to the Wroclaw Voivodeship . The companies mainly in the leather and food industries were rebuilt and expanded. From 1975 to 1998 Prochowice was part of the Legnica Voivodeship and since then the newly formed Lower Silesian Voivodeship .
Population development
The population of Parchwitz:
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Attractions
- The town hall in the middle of the ring (market square) was built in 1642 and received its current form in 1769. On the hipped roof there is a ridge turret with an onion dome. The ring and the streets that branch off from here are lined with mostly two-story, eaves-like houses from the 18th and 19th centuries. The oldest residential building in the city is a gable-independent building on the Ring, which is crowned by a bust with the year 1588.
- Parchwitz Castle
- St. Andrew's Church
- John the Baptist Church
politics
Partnerships
Prochowice has a partnership with Warburg , North Rhine-Westphalia .
coat of arms
In a shield divided by silver and blue, a golden hare that ends in a silver fishtail from the middle of the body.
According to Dr. Friedrich Vetter adopted the knight Peter von Parchwitz the "fish hare" in 1263 as his coat of arms. It is supposed to remind of the rich forests and rivers in the area. In 1898 Otto Hupp reproduced the city's coat of arms as a golden "fish bunny" on a red shield. The future mayor Walter Stein changed the color scheme to blue and white and thus tied in with the colors of the historic city flag that had hung on the town hall since 1800.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The state road DK 94 Strzelno - Krakow runs through Prochowice . In addition, DK 36 runs from Prochowice in a westerly direction to Lubin and from there to Ostrów Wielkopolski in the northeast.
education
In Prochowice there is a primary school and a gimnazjum (middle school).
local community
The urban and rural community Prochowice is divided into the following districts in addition to the main town of the same name:
- Cichobórz ( overview )
- Dąbie (Dahme)
- Golanka Dolna
- Gromadzyń (Herrndorf)
- Kawice (Koitz)
- Kwiatkowice (Old Läst)
- Lisowice (Leschwitz)
- Mierzowice (Merschwitz)
- Motyczyn (Möttig)
- Rogów Legnicki (Rogau)
- Szczedrzykowice (Spittelndorf)
- Szczedrzykowice-Stacja (colony at the train station)
Town twinning
- Warburg , Germany
sons and daughters of the town
- Max Fiedler (1868–1924), cantor and composer
- Jan Šołta (1921–2004), historian and economist
- Gerhard Kaske (1925–2019), chemist, physicist and local researcher
- Detlev Poguntke (* 1945 in Merschwitz), mathematician
- Elżbieta Szmytka (* 1956), opera singer
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 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 .
- ↑ a b c d e cf. Johann Georg Knie: Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, spots, cities and other places of the royal family. Preuss. Province of Silesia. Breslau 1845, pp. 893f.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h See community website ab. on November 14, 2009
- ↑ Sources of the population figures : 1830 - 1844 - 1905 - 1910 - 1933, 1939
- ↑ Cf. Otto Hupp: The coats of arms and seals of the German cities. 1898
Municipality: Chojnów (Haynau)
Urban and rural municipality: Prochowice (Parchwitz)
Rural Communes : Chojnów | Krotoszyce (Kroitsch) | Kunice (Kunitz) | Legnickie Pole (Wahlstatt) | Miłkowice (Arnsdorf) | Ruja (Royn)