Twardocice

Twardocice
	Twardocice
	Twardocice
Basic data
State :	Poland
Powiat :	Złotoryja
Geographic location :	51 ° 6 ′ N , 15 ° 46 ′ E Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ N , 15 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E
Residents :	676 (2011)
Postal code :	59-524
Telephone code :	(+48) 76
License plate :	DZL
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Ruins of the Twardocice Church

Twardocice (German Harpersdorf ) is a village in the rural municipality Pielgrzymka in the powiat Złotoryjski of the Polish Voivodeship of Lower Silesia .

history

Twardocice was first mentioned in documents in 1206. From the 16th to the early 18th century, the radical Reformation Schwenkfeldians lived in Harpersdorf and the surrounding villages. In 1826, the farmer Melchior Dorn, the last Silesian who openly confessed to the Schwenkfeldians, died in Harpersdorf.

After the Second World War , the German population was expelled from the place.

In 2011 the village had 676 inhabitants.

Personalities

Konrad von Zedlitz and Neukirch (1789–1869), Prussian major general
Heinrich Lichner (1829–1898), German composer
Carl Jentsch (1833–1917), German priest and Curatus
Peter Sundarp (* 1943), German film distributor and cinema operator

Web links

Commons : Twardocice - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Horst Weigelt: Zinzendorf and the Schwenckfelder. In: Martin Brecht / Paul Peucker (eds.): New aspects of Zinzendorf research. (= Works on the history of Pietism. Volume 47) Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-55832-5 , pp. 64–83.

[1] Horst Weigelt: Zinzendorf and the Schwenckfelder. In: Martin Brecht / Paul Peucker (eds.): New aspects of Zinzendorf research. (= Works on the history of Pietism. Volume 47) Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-55832-5 , pp. 64–83.