Szczodre
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lower Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Wroclaw | ||
| Gmina : | Długołęka | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 12 ' N , 17 ° 11' E | ||
| Residents : | 1033 (Dec. 31, 2010) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 71 | ||
| License plate : | DWR | ||
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| Next international airport : | Wroclaw | ||
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| Website : | www.szczodre.pl | ||
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Szczodre [ ˈʃʧɔdrɛ ] (German Sibyllenort , Polish 1945–1948: Sybilin ) is a village in the municipality of Długołęka (Langewiese), Powiat Wrocławski in the Polish Voivodeship of Lower Silesia . It is located 12 kilometers northeast of Wroclaw .
history
The place Palici was mentioned for the first time in 1245 and as Paulowitzi in 1305 . After 1315 the village got the name of the new owner, the Lords of Rastelwitz . In 1516 the district of Neudorf was created.
In the Thirty Years' War in 1643 both villages were destroyed. In 1653 Neudorf was rebuilt, while Rastelwitz was left in a desolate position .
Duke Christian Ulrich I von Württemberg-Oels bought Neudorf from Balthasar Wilhelm von Prittwitz in 1685 and had a baroque castle built here between 1685 and 1692 , which was named after his second wife Sibylle Maria von Sachsen-Merseburg . At the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century the castle was rebuilt and enlarged. Under the last Duke of Oels, Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , it was extended and rebuilt in 1852 in the neo-Gothic style (imitation of the Tudor style ); at last it comprised 400 rooms. The last Duke of Oels died on October 18, 1884 in Sibyllenort, where he had lived for a long time. He was single and had no legitimate heirs. In his will he bequeathed a considerable part of his Silesian possessions, including Sibyllenort Castle, to his nephew, the then Saxon King Albert .
After 1918 Sibyllenort became the permanent residence of the last King of Saxony, Friedrich August III. who died here in 1932.
Until the end of the Second World War , Sibyllenort belonged to the district of Oels . In 1933 there were 571 inhabitants in Sibyllenort, in 1939 there were 554.
In 1939 the castle was used as the main air force depot. On January 26, 1945, parts of the castle were blown up by the Wehrmacht , and the entire building burned down.
The castle stood in ruins until 1978 and was almost completely demolished in the following years, one of the towers only in the late 1980s. Today only the vacant remainder of a side wing, the gatehouse and the huge, overgrown park testify to the former large and representative palace complex.
The village church, which Queen Carola had restored and equipped with an Italian marble altar, still has a plaque commemorating King Albert of Saxony, with his date of birth and death and the words "Goodbye - Carola", which is shown on the Polish website (under "Historia"). In 2010 there were 1033 people in Szczodre.
Personalities
- Wilhelm , Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, † October 18, 1884 in Sibyllenort
- Albert I , King of Saxony, † June 19, 1902 in Sibyllenort
- Friedrich August III. , King of Saxony, † February 18, 1932 in Sibyllenort
- Friedrich August von Oels , Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, lived in Sibyllenort
The former Crown Princess of Saxony Luise von Toskana tells the following about Sibyllenort in her memoir:
"In the summer of 1902 we were in the country, but our usually pleasant holiday was clouded by the serious condition of King Albert , who was on the point of death. The King and Queen were staying at the Castle of Sibyllenort near Breslau in Silesia, a beautiful residence given by the last Duke of Brunswick to the then King of Saxony. The castle contains four hundred rooms, and it was the scene of many scandalous orgies in the later forties. The Duke, who was a great admirer of the fair sex, had a private theater there, and the ballet was composed of numerous pretty girls, whom he kept in harem-like seclusion. I remember seeing some rather startling pictures when I visited the castle as a girl of sixteen, but these were very properly banished by Queen Carola's orders, and Sibyllenort became a highly decorous royal residence. "
literature
- Luise of Austria-Tuscany : My Own Story. Nash, London 1911.
- Klaus Ullmann: Silesia Lexicon. For everyone who loves Silesia. Kraft, Würzburg 1992, ISBN 3-8083-1168-1 .
- Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical places . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-520-31602-1 .
Web links
- German-language site
- Pictures from Sibyllenort
- Old and new pictures of Sibyllenort (Wratislaviae Amici) Polish
- Material on Sibyllenort Castle in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin