Żarów

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Żarów
Żarów coat of arms
Żarów (Poland)
Żarów
Żarów
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Lower Silesia
Powiat : Świdnica
Area : 6.15  km²
Geographic location : 50 ° 56 ′  N , 16 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  N , 16 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 164 m npm
Residents : 6719
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Postal code : 58-130
Telephone code : (+48) 74
License plate : DSW
Economy and Transport
Rail route : Wrocław Świebodzki – Wałbrzych Głowny
Next international airport : Wroclaw
Gmina
Gminatype: Urban and rural municipality
Gmina structure: 17 school authorities
Surface: 87.98 km²
Residents: 12,412
(Jun. 30, 2019)
Population density : 141 inhabitants / km²
Community number  ( GUS ): 0219083
Administration (as of 2012)
Mayor : Leszek Michalak
Address:
ul.Zamkowa 2 58.130 Żarów
Website : www.um.zarow.pl



Żarów [ ˈʒaruf ] ( German Saarau ) is a city in the powiat Świdnicki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland . It is located twelve kilometers north of Świdnica ( Schweidnitz ).

history

The first mention of Saarau comes from the year 1290. It belonged to the Duchy of Schweidnitz , which after the death of Duke Bolko II. 1368 inherited to the later Bohemian King Wenceslaus . After the First Silesian War , Saarau fell to Prussia in 1742, like almost all of Silesia . After the reorganization of Silesia, it was incorporated into the Province of Silesia in 1815 and from 1816 belonged to the Striegau district, which was connected to the Schweidnitz district in 1932 . The rural community of Saarau belonged to the Peterwitz district until 1880 and then formed its own district until 1945.

An economic upswing followed with the lignite mining, which began in 1847 after the lignite and kaolin deposits were found in 1843 when the railway line Breslau - Freiburg was built. After a temporary shutdown, lignite mining was resumed in 1902.

The Laasan factory district , which was established in neighboring Laasan in 1850, was of economic importance . To it belonged the Ida and Marienhütte founded by Carl Friedrich Kulmiz and important chemical factories of the joint stock company Silesia , an iron foundry , a machine factory, brown coal mines as well as blue and white clay mines . In 1939 the Laazan factory district was incorporated into Saarau.

As a result of the Second World War, Saarau fell to Poland in 1945 and was renamed Żarów . The German population was largely expelled . Some of the newly settled residents were displaced from eastern Poland . 1954 Żarów was raised to the city.

Population development

1787: 95 inhabitants
1825: 133
1843: 170
1885: 1,501
1905: 3,380
1939: 3,573
1961: 6,048
1970: 6,098
2004: 6,836

local community

The districts ( German names up to 1945 ) with a Schulzenamt belong to the urban and rural community Żarów :

  • Żarów (Saarau)
  • Bożanów ( Eckersdorf )
  • Buków ( Bockau )
  • Gołaszyce ( Gohlitsch )
  • Imbramowice ( Ingramsdorf )
  • Kalno ( Kallendorf )
  • Kruków ( Raaben )
  • Łażany ( Laasan )
  • Marcinowiczki ( Klein Merzdorf )
  • Mielęcin ( Pfaffendorf )
  • Mikoszowa ( Niklasdorf )
  • Mrowiny ( Konradswaldau )
  • Pożarzysko ( Hohenposeritz )
  • Przyłęgów ( Preilsdorf )
  • Pyszczyn ( Pitschen )
  • Siedlimowice ( Schönfeld )
  • Wierzbna ( Würben ) and
  • Zastruże ( Sasterhausen )

Other localities in the municipality are Kalno-Wostówka ( Kalendorf - Neu Sorgau ) and Tarnawa ( Tarnau ).

Twin cities

Personalities

  • Wilhelm Wolff (* 1809 in Tarnau; † 1864), publicist, politician, close companion of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and co-founder of the League of Communists
  • Christa Susanne Dorothea Kleinert (1925-2004), German economist, grew up between 1928 and 1936 with her grandparents in Saarau
  • Klaus von Beyme (* 1934), German political scientist, emeritus professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
  • Zbigniew Chlebowski (* 1964), Polish politician, Mayor of Żarów from 1990 to 2001.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. ↑ Peterwitz District
  3. ^ Saarau district
  4. ↑ The Genealogical Place Directory