Nowogrodziec

Nowogrodziec [ nɔvɔgrɔʥɛʦ ] (Eng. Naumburg am Queis ) is a small town in Lower Silesia in the western part of Poland - located on the eastern shore of the Queis approximately 120 km west of Wrocław. The powiat the Boleslawiecki nationals urban and rural municipality has approximately 15,000 inhabitants (of which in the city of 4,000 to EUR 16.17 km ²) and is a member of the euro region Neisse.

History

As a city Naumburg was founded by Silesia at the ford of the northern high road through the Queis and provided with Magdeburg Rights in 1233 by Duke Henry I. In the town consisted of 13 century a monastery of the Magdalene gutters from which only ruins remain. Until 1815 Naumburg border city was at the Upper Lusatia. In addition to the cloth-making mainly pottery was produced in Naumburg. The city was the Silesian pottery town and lay in the importance and size of the guild long before the better-known for its pottery Boleslawiec. In 1938 incorporated the district Ołdrzychów ( Ullersdorf am Queis ) is the last of Electoral Saxony Postmeilensäule with the No. 112 (counting from Leipzig) in the course of the Via Regia, near the old border of Upper Lusatia and Silesia ( Queis Bridge ), in the form of an all- mile column of 1725, which was restored on the occasion of the EU accession of Poland in 2004.

Rural community of Nowogrodziec

Nowogrodziec includes not only the city center, a rural community with the following districts:

  • Czerna ( Tschirne, 1937-45 Tonhain )
  • Gieraltów ( Gersdorf a Queis )
  • Godzieszów ( Gunthersdorf )
  • Gościszów ( Gießmann village)
  • Milikow ( Herzogswaldau )
  • Nowa Wies ( Nine Village )
  • Ołdrzychów ( Ullersdorf a Queis )
  • Parzyce ( Paritz )
  • Wykroty ( Waldau / Upper Lusatia )
  • Zabłocie ( animal garden )
  • Zagajnik ( Haide Waldau / Upper Lusatia )
  • Zebrzydowa ( Siegersdorf )

Community partnership

  • Grossdubrau ( Upper Lusatia )

Personalities

  • Joseph Schnabel ( born May 24, 1767 in Naumburg am Queis; † July 16, 1831 in Breslau), church musician, Domkapellenmeister, university music director in Wroclaw
  • Hugo Emil Schober ( born July 3, 1820 Waldau, † February 21, 1882 in Tharandt ), German agronomist
  • Gertrud Bäumer ( born September 12, 1873 in Hohen Limburg, today Hagen, † March 25 1954 in the v.Bodelschwingh institutions in Bethel ), German women's rights activist and politician who lived from 1933 to 1944 / 45 in the rural community Gießmann village (now Gościszów )
  • Rudolf Rückert ( born January 15, 1929 in Naumburg am Queis ), German politician ( CDU) and Mayor of Salzgitter
  • Hans Skirecki ( born April 18, 1935 in Siegersdorf ), German writer and translator

References

Voivodeship (Poland) Vehicle registration plates of Poland Gmina Wrocław Henry I the Bearded Via Regia Lusatiae Superioris Weaver Ceramic Gromadka Osiecznica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
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