Walim

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Walim
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Walim (Poland)
Walim
Walim
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lower Silesia
Powiat : Wałbrzych
Geographic location : 50 ° 42 '  N , 16 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 42 '0 "  N , 16 ° 27' 0"  E
Residents : 2600 (2004)
Postal code : 58-320
Telephone code : (+48) 74
License plate : DBA
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Wroclaw
Gmina
Gminatype: Rural community
Surface: 78.75 km²
Residents: 5416
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 69 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 0221082
Administration (as of 2015)
Community leader : Adam Hausman
Address: ul. Boczna 9
58-320 Walim
Website : www.walim.pl



Walim [ 'valim ] (German Wüstewaltersdorf , written until 1917 Desert Waltersdorf ) is a place in the powiat Wałbrzyski in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland. It is the seat of the rural community of the same name and is located twelve kilometers southeast of Wałbrzych (German Waldenburg ).

geography

The location on a map from 1900

Walim is located in the northwest of the Owl Mountains on voivodship road 383, which leads from Jugowice (Hausdorf) over the Przełęcz Walimska pass to Dzierżoniów (Reichenbach in the Owl Mountains) . Neighboring towns are Kokrza (Mühlbach) in the north, Michałkowa (Michelsdorf) , Glinno (Heinrichau) and Toszowice (Toschendorf) in the northeast, Modlęcin (Friedersdorf) and Domachów (Wilhelmsthal) in the east, Siedlików (Zedlitzhaide) and Rzeczka (Dorfbach) in the southeast, Grządki (Grund) and Głuszyca (Wüstegiersdorf) in the southwest, Jedlinka Górna (Blumenau) in the west and Dolki (Niedergrund) and Sędzimierz (Neugericht) in the northwest. To the south-east lies the 1014 m high mountain Hohe Eule , the highest point in the Owl Mountains.

history

View over Walim
Hedwig's Church
Barbarakirche
Ruins of the old weaving mill

Middle Ages and Early Modern Times

Wüstewaltersdorf was probably settled around 1220 and was first mentioned in 1305 as Waltheri villa (Waltersdorf) . It belonged to the Duchy of Schweidnitz , with which it fell under inheritance law to Bohemia after the death of Duke Bolko II . The field name Walterspach referred to the silver mining, which was stopped at the end of the 15th century. During the Hussite Wars , Waltersdorf was destroyed after 1425 and rebuilt from 1530 to 1548. Around 1600 the place name Wüstewaltersdorf came up for Waltersdorf . The frequently changing noble owners included those of Haugwitz , von Beyer and von Peterswaldau. In the middle of the 16th century it belonged to Melchior von Seydlitz , who built a new settlement for Protestants from Bohemia, Moravia and the County of Glatz . After the Thirty Years' War , the Protestant church was handed over to the Catholics in 1654. In the same year Wüstewaltersdorf came to the von Zedlitz family , whose most famous representative was the Prussian Minister of State Karl Abraham von Zedlitz . He was visited several times by King Friedrich II in Wüstewaltersdorf . In the 18th century Wüstewaltersdorf developed into a center of the textile industry. In 1737 "Zedlitzhaide" was founded.

Prussian rule

After the First Silesian War in 1742, Wüstewaltersdorf fell to Prussia, along with most of Silesia . In the same year a Protestant prayer house and a Protestant school were built. For the year 1743 14 farmers and 11 gardeners as well as 143 house weavers are recorded. Weekly linen markets have been held since 1765. In 1777 the "Eckardtsberg Colony" and in 1788 the "Friedrichsberg Colony" were founded. In 1779 a linen department store was built in which the linen markets were held until 1830. In 1805 the Seylersche orphanage was donated. 1808 sold the von Zedlitz Wüstewaltersdorf.

After the reorganization of Prussia, Wüstewaltersdorf belonged to the province of Silesia from 1815 and was incorporated into the Waldenburg district from 1816 , with which it remained connected until 1945. From 1827 it came in several shares to different owners, so that the dominium was dissolved. The Meyer-Kauffmann textile factory was established in 1843, followed by a jacquard weaving mill in 1848, which was relocated to Blumenau in 1854. Since 1874, the rural community of Wüstewaltersdorf was the seat of the district of the same name , which also included the rural communities of Dorfbach, Grund, Schlesisch Falkenberg and Zedlitzhaide. In 1892 the newspaper "Der Bote aus dem Eulengebirge" was founded. In 1903 the textile factories Websky, Hartmann and Wiesen AG employed 1,100 people. With the commissioning of the Wüstewaltersdorfer Kleinbahn AG in 1914, further economic development and excursion traffic were promoted.

During the Second World War , part of Wüstewaltersdorf belonged to the Riese complex , a satellite camp of the Groß-Rosen concentration camp , which was set up for the Todt organization .

Since November 1943 there was a labor camp in Wüstewaltersdorf for around 1500 mostly Jewish prisoners in a disused weaving mill (Websky, Hartmann and Wiesen AG). In 1944 the camp was initially cleared due to a typhus epidemic and converted into a hospital with 600 beds for the Todt Organization.

As part of Poland

As a result of the Second World War, Wüstewaltersdorf fell to Poland in 1945, like almost all of Silesia, and was renamed Walim . The German population was expelled unless they had already fled . Some of the newly settled residents were forcibly evacuated from eastern Poland . In 1957, Walim was elevated to a city-like settlement. From 1975 to 1998 it was part of the Wałbrzych Voivodeship .

Parish parts

The following places belong to the rural community of Walim:

Attractions

  • The parish church of St. Barbara was built as a Protestant church in 1548 and used as a Catholic church from 1654. The main architectural altar dates from the 1780s. The figure of Our Lady with child in the choir is from the end of the 18th century, the risen Christ from around 1860.
  • Numerous town houses from the 18th / 19th centuries century
  • Family crypt of the von Zedlitz family
  • Project Riese tunnel system : South of the city there is an entrance to an underground tunnel and hall system, which was probably laid out from 1943 to 1945 as a leader's headquarters.
  • In 1742 a Protestant prayer house was built, which was rebuilt in the Baroque style in 1751. After the destruction in 1945, it was rebuilt.

Sons and daughters of the place

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ^ Website of the municipality (BIP), Wójt Gminy Walim , accessed on March 31, 2015
  3. ↑ The Giant Complex (PDF; 215 kB)
  4. ↑ History in Wüstewaltersdorf 1943 ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wuestewaltersdorf.de
  5. ↑ The labor camps in the Riese project ( Memento from January 4, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )