Åšwierzawa

Świerzawa [ ɕfjɛ'ʐava ] ( German Schoenau on the Katzbach ) is a town in Poland, in Lower Silesian Voivodeship. You more than twelve kilometers south of Złotoryja at the mouth of Steinbach in the Kaczawa ( Katzbach ) and belongs to the Euro region Neisse on.

History

There are conflicting views about the origins of the town Schönau. For a report of an old chronicles founded in 1159 and a Slavic settlement predecessor. A first mention of Sonowe finds himself in a confirmation document from the year 1268, but the southeast village located Altschönau concerns and gives rise to the presumption that the city did not exist at this time. For the early time of its establishment during the colonization of the forests in the south and west by Goldberg ( Złotoryja ) by the Dukes of Liegnitz speaks the shape of the city, which is strongly reminiscent of an elongated street village with village green.

Also unconfirmed is the other, formerly a widespread view that Duke Bolko I. founded by Lowenberg and Jawor the city until 1296 to after 1278 were made division of the Duchy of Legnica for his villages in the upper valley of the Katzbach, previously to the Goldberger precincts were to create a new center. This is contradicted also that Bolko I. already in 1295 Scenowe undertook a certification.

Proven Schönau was since the end of the 13th century became the center of a soft image and has been documented as a city in 1321. The town had but two city gates, the Hirschberg and the New Town Gate, no city fortifications. From 1381 to 1382 was on the market the Assumption Church as a branch church of St. John. At the beginning of the 15th century, the town church was also charged to the parish church and the late Romanesque on a hill between Schönau and Röversdorf ( Sędziszowa ), this St. John's Church was built around 1215 from now the city only as a cemetery church.

In 1534, the city bought from the Erbvogtei, which was since 1321 in the hands of families and Titze Zedlitz, the Otto von Zedlitz. 1608 a fire destroyed much of the city, including the city hall. Here, all municipal documents and records were lost. In the following years Schönau always remained in the shadow of Goldberg and Hirschberg, Schönau citizens lived from agriculture and the crafts.

In 1742 Schönau came to Prussia and was raised in the district reform of 1818 along with Bolkenhain the seat of a county. In 1896, the city was connected to the connection of Goldberg Schönau Merz village on the railway network. In 1932 the city lost by the merger of the counties Schönau and Goldberg Haynau to the district Goldberg the county seat.

After the end of World War II Schönau came the municipal law to Poland and the place of the 1945-1948 Szonów, then Świerzawa was lost. From 1957 Świerzawa became a city -like settlement.

Policy

Twinning

• Obercunnersdorf, Germany

Community

The field of urban and rural community Świerzawa size of 157.72 km ² which 7,845 inhabitants ( 2005) live. This includes the following eleven Soltysships: Biegoszów ( Hundorf ), 159 inhabitants, Dobków (small Helmsdorf ), 520 E. Gozdno ( Herrmann Waldau ), 89 E., Lubiechowa ( High Liebenthal ), 580 E., Nowy Kościół ( Neukirch ), 1211 E. , Podgórki ( low Hartmann village), 481 E. Rzasnik (Schön Waldau ), 443 E. Rzeszówek ( Reich Waldau ), 239 E. Sędziszowa ( Röversdorf ), 515 E. Sokołowiec ( Falk grove ), 689 E. and Stara Krasnica ( Altschönau ), 572 inhabitants.