Chojnów
Chojnów ( German: Haynau ) is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in western Poland.
Geography
The city is located about 18 kilometers west of the county town Legnica ( Liegnitz ) on the Skora ( Skora ).
History
The place Haynau was first mentioned in 1272 and received a city charter in 1333. The city announced the affiliation of Silesia to Poland, Bohemia and the German Empire, which it passed in 1742 from Austrian in Prussian possession.
During the War of Liberation defeated in the Battle of Haynau on 26 May 1813 Prussian Blücher riding association under the French corps Maison.
After the Second World War Haynau 1945, together with the east of the Oder - Neisse border located Silesia part of Poland and was named Chojnów. Its inhabitants were expelled and repopulated the city with Polish immigrants.
Community
The rural community Chojnów to which the city does not belong, had on 30 June 2010 9,398 inhabitants. The municipality is divided ( German name until 1945) in 22 districts with a mayor's office.
- Biała ( Bielau )
- Biskupin ( Bischdorf )
- Budziwojów ( Baudmannsdorf ) / Dzwonów (low Schelldorf )
- Czernikowice ( United Tschirbsdorf, 1936-1945 sand Waldau )
- Dobroszów ( Doberschau )
- Goliszów ( Göllschau )
- Gołaczów
- Groble ( Tammen village)
- Jaroszówka ( Vorhaus )
- Jerzmanowice ( Haynauisch Hermsdorf Hermsdorf 1936-1945 )
- Konradówka ( Konradsdorf ) / Piotrowice ( Petersdorf )
- Krzywa ( Kreibau )
- Michów ( Michel villages outworks )
- Niedzwiedzice ( Bärsdorf - Trach )
- Okmiany (Kaiser Waldau )
- Osetnica (stone village)
- Pawlikowice ( Pohl village) / Gołocin ( Gohlsdorf )
- Rokitki (rice layer )
- Stary Lom ( Altenlohm )
- Strupice ( Straupitz )
- Witków ( Wittgendorf )
- Zamienice ( Samitz )
Other villages in the municipality are Bronim, Brzozy ( Birkfleck ) Dębrzyna, Kobiałka, Pątnów ( Panthenau ) and Targoszyce.
Attractions
The single-tower cathedral was rebuilt in the 15th century in the Gothic style and is the largest three-nave brick church Silesia.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776-1810), German physicist
- Theodor Bail (1833-1922), German botanist and mycologist
- Admiral Gustav von Senden- Bibran (1847-1909)
- Wilhelm Sander (1838-1922), German psychiatrist
- Georg Michaelis (1857-1936), German Chancellor
- Oswald Lange (1912-2000), German rocket scientists
- Hartmut Olejnik (* 1930), German landscape architect
- Horst Mahler ( * 1936), German lawyer and political extremist