Witków (Jaworzyna Śląska)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lower Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Świdnica | ||
| Gmina : | Jaworzyna Śląska | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 53 ' N , 16 ° 25' E | ||
| Residents : | 322 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) (+48) 74 | ||
| License plate : | DSW | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Świdnica - Wrocław | ||
| Next international airport : | Wroclaw | ||
Witków (German Wickendorf ) is a village in Gmina Jaworzyna Śląska (German Königszelt ) in the Powiat Świdnicki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland .
history
Wickendorf was founded by German settlers in the course of the eastern colonization . In 1392 the place appears in a document as Wittchindorff . In 1497 the Schweidnitz patrician Georg Ungerothen was the landlord of Wickendorf.
The village was devastated during the Thirty Years War . Wickendorf was Protestant to the Friedenskirche Schweidnitz and Catholic to the church in Arnsdorf. On the road from Schweidnitz to Striegau , the then owner of Arnsdorf, Ölse, Jauernick and Wickendorf Graf von Nimptsch had two columns, St. Depicting Nepomuk and Maria erect.
After the First Silesian War in 1742, Wickendorf fell to Prussia and became part of the Schweidnitz district in the Alt Jauernick district . The mayor of Schweidnitz and Prussian councilor Gottfried von Kehler had acquired Arnsdorf and Wickendorf from Count von Nimptsch. In 1785 they belonged to his son Karl von Kehler.
In 1880 a Protestant school with 1 teacher and 73 children was founded in the village. In 1895 the rural community had 60 inhabited houses, 1 schoolhouse, 103 ordinary households with 484 inhabitants, of which 347 were Protestant and 137 were Catholic. In 1892 Alt Jauernick, Neu Jauernick, Arnsdorf and Wickendorf were combined to form the new Evangelical parish of Wickendorf, but a church in the village was not built until 1908/09.
When it was taken over by Soviet troops and the Polish administration in 1945, Wickendorf was renamed Witków . The German residents were expelled and replaced by Poles .
Attractions
- Catholic parish church of Our Lady of Fatima, originally Protestant, built in 1908/09
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Schweidnitz district: according to its physical, statistical and topographical conditions: a contribution to the promotion of local studies for school and home ~ Silesian Digital Library. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
- ^ Yearbook for Silesian Church History . Verlag "Unser Weg", 1977 ( google.de [accessed on February 3, 2019]).
- ^ Wickendorf (Schweidnitz district) - GenWiki. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .