Wojciechowice (Kłodzko)

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Wojciechowice (Poland)
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Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lower Silesia
Powiat : Kłodzko
Gmina : Kłodzko
Geographic location : 50 ° 27 '  N , 16 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '10 "  N , 16 ° 42' 40"  E
Height : 350-450 m npm
Residents : 600 (March 31, 2011)
Telephone code : (+48) 74
License plate : DKL
Economy and Transport
Next international airport : Wroclaw



Wojciechowice (German Königshain ) is a village in the powiat Kłodzki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland . It is four kilometers northeast of Kłodzko ( Glatz ), to whose independent rural municipality it belongs.

geography

Wojciechowice stretches for four kilometers along a road that leads from Glatz in the valley of the Königshain Brook ( Jodłownik ) in a north-easterly direction to the top of the Wartha Mountains ( Góry Bardzkie ). Neighboring towns are Boguszyn ( Friedrichswartha ) in the northwest, Podzamek ( Neudeck ) in the southeast, Jaszkówka ( Neuhannsdorf ) and the desert Joswików ( Josephstal ) in the south and Kłodzko in the southwest. East of the end of the village is the 751 m high mountain Ostra Góra ( Königshainer Spitzberg ).

history

Königshain (Wojciechowice) from the south

Königshain was founded in 1324 and from the beginning belonged to the Glatzer Land , with which it shared the history of its political and ecclesiastical affiliation. The parish church of St. Michael was first mentioned in 1360. During the Reformation , Catholicism was initially able to assert itself in Königshain. According to a survey by the dean David Fechtner from Glatzer, there was still a Catholic priest working in the Königshain parish on May 20, 1577. Later, St. Michael's Church served as a Lutheran house of worship. After the county of Glatz was recaptured by the imperial troops after the military actions in 1622, the church was again assigned to the Catholics. Because of the lack of Catholic priests prevailing at the time, the parish of Königshain, along with the parishes of Rengersdorf and Eisersdorf, was supplied by Hieronymus Keck, the dean of the County of Glatz .

At the beginning of the 1750s, Andreas Faulhaber was a chaplain in Königshain. After the Silesian Wars , Königshain and the County of Glatz came to Prussia in 1763 through the Peace of Hubertusburg . After the reorganization of Prussia, it belonged to the province of Silesia since 1815 and was incorporated into the district of Glatz from 1816–1945 . In 1939 903 inhabitants were counted. As a result of the Second World War , like almost all of Silesia, it fell to Poland in 1945 and was renamed Wojciechowice . The German population was expelled. Some of the new residents were displaced from eastern Poland . 1975–1998 Wojciechowice belonged to the Wałbrzych Voivodeship (German Waldenburg ).

Attractions

The parish church of St. Michael
  • The Catholic parish church of St. Michael ( Kośćiół Michała Archanioła ), mentioned in 1360, was rebuilt as a Gothic hall church in the 15th century and rebuilt around 1730. The tower with an eight-sided pointed spire was built at the end of the 19th century. The decor is neo-Gothic .
  • The rectory from the first half of the 18th century was rebuilt in the 19th century.
  • The small pilgrimage church "Maria Trost" ( Wzgórze Marii ) on the Spittelberg on the southwestern edge of the village was built in 1715. The facility includes a Marian column and stations of the cross .
  • About one kilometer south of Königshain is the “Zajazd Kukułka” ( Tailor's Shop ) with a wonderful view.

literature

Web links

Commons : Wojciechowice  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on June 29, 2017
  2. ^ Arno Herzig , Małgorzata Ruchniewicz : History of the Glatzer country . Hamburg-Wrocław 2006. ISBN 3-934632-12-2 , p. 108
  3. ↑ Norbert Bartonitschek:  Faulhaber, Andreas. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 22, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2 , Sp. 315-316.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )