Stara Białka
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lower Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Kamienna Góra | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 45 ' N , 15 ° 58' E | ||
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| Telephone code : | (+48) 75 | ||
| License plate : | DKA | ||
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| Street : | Kamienna Góra - Miszkowice | ||
| Next international airport : | Wroclaw | ||
Stara Białka (German Alt Weißbach , also Altweißbach ) is a district of the rural community Lubawka ( Liebau ) in the powiat Kamiennogórski in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland.
geography
Stara Białka is located in the Giant Mountains , eleven kilometers southwest of Kamienna Góra . Neighboring towns are Pisarzowice in the north, Janiszów ( Johnsdorf ) and Przedwojów ( Reichhennersdorf ) in the northeast, Krzeszów in the east, Jawiszów ( Kleinhennersdorf ) in the southeast, Paprotki ( urban Hartau ) in the south, Miszkowice and Jarkowice ( Hermsdorf ) in the southwest and Szarocin in the northwest.
history
Alt Weißbach was first mentioned in 1305 as Wysbach and later also called Wiesenbach . It belonged to the Duchy of Schweidnitz-Jauer , with which it came to the Crown of Bohemia in 1392 . After the First Silesian War , it fell to Prussia together with Silesia in 1742 . After the reorganization of Prussia in 1815, it belonged to the province of Silesia and from 1816 was incorporated into the Landeshut district, with which it remained connected until 1945. It formed its own rural community and since 1874 it belonged together with Johnsdorf, Nieder Blasdorf and the manor district of Nieder Blasdorf to the district of Blasdorf b. Liebau i. Schles . In 1939 370 people lived in Alt Weißbach.
As a result of the Second World War , Alt Weißbach fell to Poland in 1945, like almost all of Silesia, and was renamed Stara Białka . The German population was expelled. Some of the new residents were displaced from eastern Poland . 1975-1998 Stara Białka belonged to the Jelenia Góra Voivodeship .
Attractions
- The subsidiary church of St. Matthew was built in 1606-1609 as a Protestant church in the Renaissance style and in 1654 assigned to the Catholics. The richly carved main altar contains a bas-relief of the Last Supper and Resurrection and figures of the evangelists. The stone pulpit stands on a twisted column. On the nave wall there are three epitaphs from the beginning of the 17th century. The wooden baptismal font is from 1651. On the outer wall there is a baroque stone epitaph from 1735.
- The church is surrounded by a defensive wall with an arched gate and loopholes. The wall was renovated in 1884.
literature
- Dehio -Manual of Art Monuments in Poland Silesia . Munich Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , p. 864
