Okrzeszyn, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Okrzeszyn ( German Albendorf ) is a district of the rural community Lubawka ( Liebau i Silesia) in the powiat Kamiennogórski in the Province of Lower Silesia in Poland.

Geography

Okrzeszyn is located in the extreme south of the powiat Kamiennogórski directly on the border with the Czech Republic. Neighboring towns are Błażejów ( Blasdorf b. Schomberg ) and Uniemyśl ( Berthelsdorf ) in the north, Chełmsko Śląskie ( Schomberg ) in the Northeast, Horni Adršpach the east, Chvaleč the southeast, Petříkovice and Trutnov in the southwest, Zlata Olešnice in the west and BECKOV, Bernartice and Královec in the northwest.

History

Albums village was probably founded in the 11th century and belonged to Bohemia. Later it got to Bolko I of Schweidnitz, who donated it to the Cistercian monastery Grüssau with which it was connected as a pin village until the secularization in 1810. 1368 got it along with the Duchy of Świdnica and Jawor to the crown of Bohemia. 1378 acquired the monastery Grüssau the albums villages Scholtisei.

After the First Silesian War Albendorf fell in 1742 together with Silesia to Prussia. After the reorganization of Prussia belonged since 1815 to the province of Silesia and was from 1816 the county Landeshut incorporated, which it remained until 1945. There it formed its own rural community and was the seat of the administrative district of the same name.

Of economic importance of agriculture was next to the house weaving and a brewery and a distillery. Since 1899 Albendorf was the terminus of the Ziederthalbahn.

As a result of World War II Albendorf fell in 1945 as almost all of Silesia to Poland and was initially renamed Albinów and a short time later in Okrzeszyn. The German population was expelled. The newly settled inhabitants were partly displaced persons from eastern Poland. Due to the closure of the border in the former Czechoslovakia Okrzeszyn was secluded from other towns, so that the tourist importance declined. From 1947, in the former coal mine " New gift of God " wanted more than three years after uranium. The search has been set, because the yield was too low. The passenger traffic of the railway line was discontinued on January 1, 1954, the freight wrong until the end of 1959 after Okrzeszyn. The rail tracks were dismantled in 1973. Receive is still the former station building. 1975-1998 belonged to Okrzeszyn Voivodeship Jelenia Gora.

Attractions

• The branch church " Nativity of the Virgin " was built in 1724 as a foundation of the monastery Grüssau. The main altar with the statues of saints was created around 1670 by Georg Schroetter for the monastery church in Grüssau and later spent here. The side altars and the pulpit are from the second half of the 18th century. The neo-Gothic tower was erected in 1856.
• The former rectory of the church is southwest of 1794th It is a two-storey Spätbarockbau with gable roof.
• Ruins of the former St. Michael's Church