Wierzbna (Żarów)

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Wierzbna (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lower Silesia
Powiat : Świdnica
Geographic location : 50 ° 53 '  N , 16 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '0 "  N , 16 ° 30' 0"  E
Residents : 623 (Dec. 31, 2010)
Postal code : 58-130
Telephone code : (+48) 74
License plate : DSW
Economy and Transport
Street : Świdnica - Żarów
Next international airport : Wroclaw



The church

Wierzbna (German Würben ) is a place in the municipality Żarów in the Powiat Świdnicki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland .

Geographical location

Wierzbna is eight kilometers north of the district town Świdnica . Neighboring towns are Bożanów ( Eckersdorf ) and Żarów in the north, Siedlimowice ( Schoenfeld ) and Gołaszyce ( Gohlitsch ) in the northeast, Śmiałowice ( Schmellwitz ) and Klecin ( Klettendorf ) to the east, Sulisławice ( Zülzendorf ) in the south, Bagieniec ( Teichenau ) and Tomkowa ( Tunkendorf ) in the southwest, Bolesławice in the west and Jaworzyna Śląska in the northwest.

history

Würben was the ancestral seat of the Counts of Würben . "Comes Johannes de Werbno" and his brother Nikolaus are documented for the year 1214. They are said to have been involved in the founding of Schweidnitz and in the settlement of the area by Germans. The church of Würben, attested to in 1283, was probably built around 1240 and was the own church of the Counts of Würben. It is considered the oldest village church in the Schweidnitzer Land.

After the division of the Duchy of Breslau in 1278, Würben came to the Duchy of Schweidnitz . At the beginning of the 14th century, Würben was implemented under German law. After the death of Duke Bolko II , it fell to Bohemia under inheritance law together with the Duchy of Schweidnitz, with Bolko's widow Agnes von Habsburg having a usufruct until her death in 1392 . There is evidence of a castle from 1403, which fell into disrepair after 1463. In the 14./15. Century, after the Counts von Würben settled in Moravia , Würben came into the possession of the Cistercian monasteries Kamenz and Grüssau . From 1586 until the secularization in 1810, Würben belonged to the Grüssau monastery alone. In 1667 it was first referred to as "oppidum" ( spots ). In 1680 Abbot Bernhard Rosa built a Grüssau priory in Würben, which was initially intended as a place of relaxation for the monks. For this purpose he built a two-story west wing on the old church. The priory did not develop into a monastery. Since the church at that time had become too small for the parish, it was rebuilt and enlarged under Abbot Innozenz Fritsch . It was inaugurated on July 4, 1730 by the Breslau auxiliary bishop Elias Daniel von Sommerfeld .

After the First Silesian War , Würben fell to Prussia in 1742, as did almost all of Silesia . After the secularization of the monastery property, Würben acquired the Lords von der Goltz , who chose the priory building as their residence and had the orangery converted into a Protestant church and school. After the reorganization of Prussia, Würben came to the province of Silesia in 1815 and from 1816 belonged to the district of Schweidnitz , with which it remained connected until 1945. In 1874 the district of Würben was formed, which consisted of the rural communities Eckersdorf, Kallendorf and Würben and the associated manor districts. From 1859 to 1945 Würben belonged to the descendants of Prince August of Prussia , who called themselves "von Waldenburg". In 1939 Würben consisted of 1060 inhabitants.

As a result of the Second World War , Würben fell to Poland in 1945 along with almost all of Silesia and was renamed Wierzbna . The German population was largely expelled. 1975–1998 Wierzbna belonged to the Wałbrzych Voivodeship (German: Waldenburg). This was dissolved with the administrative reform in 1999. Since then, Wierzbna has belonged to the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.

Attractions

  • The Church of the Assumption of Mary , which was probably built around 1240 as a Romanesque hall building, is documented for the year 1283. It was later rebuilt in the Gothic and then in the Renaissance style. In 1729/30, under Abbot Innozenz Fritsch, the Schweidnitz master mason Christoph Köhler carried out a further renovation and enlargement of the church. At the same time, it received largely new interior fittings. For the high altar, parts of the main altar with the altarpiece by Michael Willmann , which was removed from the old Grüssau monastery church in 1728, were used. The side altars St. Joseph and St. Anna also come from the old Grüssau monastery church. On the south wall of the choir there are fragments of a figural wall painting from the mid-15th century.
  • The castle of the Grüssau Cistercians was built after 1650 and rebuilt in 1684 for Abbot Bernhard Rosa by master bricklayer Martin Urban. It was expanded and modernized in the 19th century and in the 1920s. After the transition to Poland in 1945, it was left to decay.

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  1. ↑ Główny Urząd Statystyczny, Portret miejscowości statystycznych w gminie Żarów (powiat świdnicki, województwo dolnośląskie) w 2010 r. Online (xls file)