Niedów

Niedów ( German Nieda; 1937-45 Wolfsberg ) is a town in Upper Lusatia in southwestern Poland. It is located 13 kilometers south of Görlitz and Zgorzelec is part of the rural municipality in the Province of Lower Silesia.

Geography

Niedów is located in the Valley of the Witka shortly before its confluence with the Lusatian Neisse river and was flooded with the application of the Niedów Reservoir, mostly. The resulting part is located on the right bank of the reservoir. To the north, the Góra Borowa rises.

Neighboring towns are German Ossig, Osiek Łużycki and Kolonia Osiek Łużycki in the north, Lomnica, Wrociszów Dolny and Borów in the northeast, Wilka to the east, Zawidów Osiedle, Ostrozno, Ves and Spytków the southeast, Kostrzyna in the south, Reczyn the southwest, Leuba in the west and Joachim Stein and Radomierzyce in the northwest.

History

Traces point to an existing from the 9th to the 11th century Slavic castle overlooking the valley of Wittig. Excavations on Castle Hill, a rock-cut cistern was found.

The first mention of the town was in 1346, when the church of Nieda the status of a parish church and was under the Dean of Görlitz .. The estate was originally connected to Radmeritz. In 1515 King Vladislav II Jagiello granted Nicholas the Younger of Donin as the last male representative of the line Grafstein and Hirschfelde the sale of goods Radmeritz and Nida on the Görlitz patrician Bernhard Berndt. This heir to his son Martin Lochmann, who both goods in 1550. After Hole 's death both goods were sold to Valentin von Gersdorff on Henner village. At the beginning of the 17th century Hans von Penzig acquired on Wilka also the good Nieda. Nieda was since the 18th century to 1856 also school location and venue of courts in Reutnitz.

As a result of the Treaty of Vienna of 1815, the Wittig became the border between Saxony and Prussia. This Nieda was divided. The greater part of the village, which lay on the right bank of the river, became Prussian and remained at Radmeritz. The left side of the Wittig located, consisting of five plots share remained at Saxony. This resulted in two villages Prussian and Saxon Nieda Nieda. The children from the Saxon Reutnitz were still taught in school in nunmehrigen Prussian Nieda. Nieda Saxon was founded in 1856 part of the Saxon village of Reutnitz while Prussian Nieda belonged to the municipality Radmeritz. Between 1910 and 1922 was the expansion of Nietzsche mill on the Wittig on the power station to the surrounding community. On January 20, 1937, the city was renamed in Wolfsberg. In 1939 he had 84 inhabitants. After the end of World War II Niedów came to Poland and both parts of the village were reunited. The largest part of the village, including the entire former Saxon share and the power station was abandoned and flooded 1960-1964 The construction of the dam. Since the 1980s Niedów became a resort. 2009 lived in Niedów 16 inhabitants on 90.14 acres of land. In the flood of August 2010, the floods swept away the dam of the reservoir.

Attractions

• The Mother of God Church built by the angels, in the 15th century, its Baroque remodeling took place in 1721