Bukówka, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Bukówka ( German Buchenwald. Well Buchenwald b Liebau ) is a district of the rural community Lubawka ( Liebau ) in the powiat Kamiennogórski in the Province of Lower Silesia in Poland.

Geography

Bukówka is located on the Province Road 369, which runs from Lubawka to Kowary. Neighboring towns are Paprotki ( Urban Hartau ) and Stara Białka in the north, Błażkowa ( Blasdorf b. Liebau ) in the Northeast, Lubawka in the east, Niedamirów the southwest, Opawa in the west and Miszkowice and Jarkowice in the northwest. To the northeast lies the Built in the early 20th century Bober Dam Jezioro Bukówka. Across the border to the Czech Republic, which is reached via the border crossing Lubawka - Královec, Královec located in the south-east, the south and Lampertice Žacléř in the southwest.

History

The area around Buchenwald first belonged to Bohemia and arrived in the 13th century Duke Bolko I. Buchwald beginning of the 14th century was probably founded and belonged to the noble family Seidlitz. Together with the Duchy Schweidnitz it came again in 1368 to the Crown of Bohemia. Until 1378 it belonged with Oppau, Tschöpsdorf and Kunz village as Witwengut of Marita of Se ( i) dlitz, a governess of the Duchess Agnes. This year sold Marita's sons Hans Schone bird and Kuncze Hudner Buchenwald and the other mentioned localities with all the possessions and rights to the Cistercian monastery Grüssau. To cover the Turks had control in 1558 Buchenwald be mortgaged with Oppau, Kunz village and Tschöpsdorf. During the pledge period Lutheranism developed in the villages. After returning to the monastery was recatholicisation the population.

After the First Silesian War Buchenwald fell in 1742 together with Silesia to Prussia. 1810, the monastery was secularized. After the reorganization of Prussia in 1815 Buchwald belonged to the province of Silesia and was from 1816 the county Landeshut incorporated, with which it was connected until 1945. It formed its own country and community was since 1874 the seat of the administrative district of the same name. 1903-1905 was the Bober Dam Buchenwald built north of Buchenwald. 1939 lived 418 inhabitants in Buchenwald.

As a result of World War II Buchenwald fell in 1945 as almost all of Silesia to Poland and was renamed Bukówka. The German population was expelled. The new inhabitants were partly displaced persons from eastern Poland. 1975-1998 belonged to Bukówka Voivodeship Jelenia Gora.

Personalities

• Conrad Ansorge (1862-1930), German pianist, composer and music educator