Wilka
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lower Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Zgorzelecki | ||
| Gmina : | Sulików | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 2 ' N , 15 ° 1' E | ||
| Residents : | 143 (2006) | ||
| Postal code : | 59-975 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 75 | ||
| License plate : | DZG | ||
Wilka (Sorb. Wjelkow , 1937–45 Wilke ) is a district of Sulików in Poland .
history
One of several headquarters of the Barons von Gersdorff was in Wilka. The village belonged to the Prussian province of Silesia and formed a municipality in the Lauban district . As a place in Lower Silesia, it shares the history of Silesia between Germans, Poles and Sorbs and officially bears the two names Wilke / Wilka. On January 14, 1937, Wilka was renamed Wilke. In 1933 the place had 337 inhabitants, in 1939 only 287. Since the end of the Second World War the village has belonged to Poland and is officially called Wilka .
The railway to Zawidów runs through the village .
South of the village, the Witka was dammed to the Niedów reservoir from 1962 to serve as a cooling water reservoir for the Turów power station .
Sons and daughters of the village
- August Christian Adolf Zestermann (1807–1869), art historian and educator
- Erich von Schickfus and Neudorff (1880–1955), major general
Web links
- Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the Reich in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. lauban.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- http://home.foni.net/~adelsforschung1/sitz32.htm