Strzelin

Strzelin
	Strzelin
	Strzelin
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Lower Silesia
Powiat :	Strzelin
Area :	10.32 km²
Geographic location :	50 ° 47 ' N , 17 ° 4' E Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '0 " N , 17 ° 4' 0" E
Height :	173 m npm
Residents :	12,460 ; (Jun. 30, 2019)
Postal code :	57-100
Telephone code :	(+48) 71
License plate :	DST
Economy and Transport
Street :	Dzierżoniów - Brzeg
Rail route :	Wroclaw – Kamieniec Ząbkowicki
Next international airport :	Wroclaw
Gmina
Gminatype:	Urban and rural municipality
Gmina structure:	45 villages
	36 school offices
Surface:	171.69 km²
Residents:	22,167 ; (Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density :	129 inhabitants / km²
Community number ( GUS ):	0217043
Administration (as of 2011)
Mayor :	Dorota Pawnuk
Address:	; ul.Ząbkowicka 11 57-100 Strzelin
Website :	www.strzelin.pl
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Strzelin [ ˈstʃɛlin ] ( German Strehlen ) is a city in the Polish Voivodeship of Lower Silesia . It is also the seat of the Powiat Strzeliński ( Strehlen district ). The granite quarries in Strzelin are among the largest in Europe.

Geographical location

Strehlen and its neighboring towns on a map from 1905.

Church of the Czech Protestant parish

The city is located in Lower Silesia on the Ohle at the foot of the Strehlener Mountains ( Wzgórza Strzelinskie ), about 40 kilometers south of Wroclaw .

history

View over the city center of Strzelin with the Church of the Holy Cross and the House of the Dukes of Brzeg

Tower of the old town hall building on the town hall square

Post office

Strehlen received German town rights in 1293 from Duke Boleslaw I of Schweidnitz .

Since the 18th century, Strehlen and its surroundings have been home to an important ethnic minority of Czech-speaking religious refugees and settlers from Bohemia . The place Hussinetz (today: Gęsiniec ) in the district of Strehlen was the most important settlement of these successors of the communities of Jan Hus .

Around 1900 Strehlen had two Protestant, one Old Lutheran and one Catholic churches, a synagogue, a district court and a grammar school.

Until 1945 Strehlen was the administrative seat of the district Strehlen in the administrative district of Breslau in the Prussian province of Lower Silesia of the German Reich .

In January 1945 Strehlen suffered the first air raids, in which the railway junction was the main target. In mid-March the Red Army advanced towards Strehlen. Then there was heavy fighting around the city. Shortly before the end of the fighting, the German Wehrmacht had the towers in the old town, including the town hall tower, blown up on March 24, 1945. When the fighting ended, the entire city was almost destroyed. Only individual fragments of buildings have been preserved. The city's population had been evacuated before the Red Army arrived. After the end of the war, the city was placed under Polish administration by the Soviet occupying power, along with almost all of Silesia . The Poles introduced the place name Strzelin for Strehlen . As far as German residents were still present, they were subsequently expelled from Strehlen by the local Polish administrative authority .

Population development

year	Residents	Remarks
1840	4,260	1987 male and 2273 female residents; 710 married couples; 3,035 Evangelicals, 1139 Catholics and 86 Jews
1844	4,253	thereof 1965 male and 2288 female residents; 706 married couples; 3,050 Evangelicals, 1109 Catholics and 94 Jews
1875	6,289
1880	7,261
1890	9,016	of which 6,471 Protestants, 2,433 Catholics and 108 Jews
1905	8,999	including 2,433 Catholics and 64 Jews.
1925	10.142	of which 7,422 Protestants, 2,578 Catholics, eight other Christians, 59 Jews
1933	11,364	of which 8,488 Protestants, 2,643 Catholics, one other Christian, 51 Jews
1939	12,290	thereof 9,110 Evangelicals, 2,904 Catholics, 34 other Christians, 14 Jews

Attractions

The Church of the Holy Cross at ul. Sw. Floriana was built between 1700 and 1721. After severe war damage, the church was rebuilt.
The Church of Our Lady was built in 1750 and rebuilt in 1979 after being severely damaged during the war. It is located on Staromiejska Street.
The St. Gotthard Church was built in the 14th and 15th centuries. The tower dates from the 12th century.
The town hall tower , built in 1520, forms the last remains of the town hall on the Ring, which was destroyed in 1945. Blown up in 1945 by the German Wehrmacht, only the first two floors stood on the square for decades. The original reconstruction of the tower took place in 2011.
The house of the Brieger princes was destroyed in 1945. Only the outer walls were preserved. In the 1990s, the building was rebuilt true to the original.
Entrance building of the main station from 1896
Remains of the medieval city wall from 1300
Jewish Cemetery
Post office

local community

The urban and rural community ( gmina miejsko-wiejska ) includes the town of Strzelin and the following 36 districts ( official German names until 1945 ) with a Schulzenamt :

Kryniczno
Biały Kościół ( Stone Church )
Biedrzychów ( Friedersdorf )
Bierzyn ( Barzdorf )
Brożec ( Brosewitz )
Chociwel ( Kuschlau )
Częszyce ( Tschanschwitz , 1937–1945 Ohletal )
Dankowice ( Danchwitz )
Dębniki ( oak forest )
Dobrogoszcz ( Dobergast )
Gębice ( Gambitz and Neu Karlsdorf , 1937–1945 Karlsdorf )
Gębczyce ( Geppersdorf )
Gęsiniec ( Hussinetz , 1937–1945 Friedrichstein )
Głęboka ( Glambach )
Gościęcice ( Mehltheuer-Podiebrad , 1937–1945 Mehltheuer )
Górzec ( Gurtsch )
Karszów ( Karschau )
Karszówek ( Karish )
Kazanów ( Schildberg )
Krzepice ( Krippitz )
Kuropatnik ( Töppendorf )
Ludów Polski ( Klein Lauden )
Mikoszów ( Niklasdorf )
Muchowiec ( Mückendorf )
Nieszkowice ( Neobschütz , 1937–1945 Kaltwassertal )
Nowolesie ( Waldneudorf )
Pęcz ( Pentsch )
Piotrowice ( Peterwitz )
Pławna ( Plohe )
Skoroszowice ( Korschwitz )
Strzegów ( Striga )
Szczawin ( Saegen )
Szczodrowice ( dewlaps )
Trześnie ( Birkkretscham )
Warkocz ( Warkotsch , 1937–1945 Friedfelde )
Wąwolnica ( Wammelwitz )
Żeleźnik ( Eisenberg )

Other localities in the municipality without the Schulzenamt are:

Gliczyna
Góra
Grabiny
Kaczów
Maszyce
Mojków
Myszkowice
Plo ( Plohmühle )
Ulica
Zimne Doły

traffic

Strzelin station is located at the intersection of the Wrocław – Międzylesie railway with the disused Brzeg – Łagiewniki Dzierżoniowskie railway . The Grodków Śląski – Głęboka Śląska railway used to end in the station in Głęboka on the latter line .

Sports

The Strzelinianka Strzelin football club is based in the city .

Personalities

Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915)

sons and daughters of the town

Johann Christian Tralles (1652–1698), German physician and city physician in Breslau
Johann Gottlieb Blümner (1763–1837), Rendant at the Higher Regional Court in Breslau
Moritz Pläschke (1817–1888), German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
Heřman z Tardy (1832–1917), reformed pastor and senior church councilor
Johannes Athanasius Kopietz (1843–?), German historian and educator
Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), German doctor and chemist, Nobel Prize winner
Samuel Traugott Milsch (1780–1846), German educator and pastor
Carl von Dobschütz (1861–1946), Prussian general
Fritz Klingmüller (1871–1939), German law scholar and university professor
Herbert von Richthofen (1879–1952), German diplomat
Fritz Neumann-Hegenberg (1884–1924), German painter
Herbert Goldschmidt (1890–1943), Magdeburg local politician
Fred G. Hellwig (1919–1992), blacksmith, sculptor, medalist and industrial designer
Norbert Raba (* 1973), Polish politician

Personalities who have worked on site

Gottfried Ferdinand von Buckisch and Löwenfels (1641–1699), German lawyer and church historian, was a councilor in Strehlen from 1670 to 1676
Franz Xaver Görlich (1801–1881), Catholic clergyman, educator and writer, worked as a pastor in Strehlen from 1842–1857