Działoszyn, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Działoszyn ( German Königshain ) is a village with 710 inhabitants in the municipality Bogatynia in Poland. It is located five kilometers south of Ostritz in the Polish part of Upper Lusatia and part of the powiat Zgorzelecki to.

Geography

The elongated Waldhufendorf runs along an old trade route from Ostritz to Reichenau in a shallow valley up to the Königshainer comb. Neighboring towns are Posada in the northwest, Bratków in the north, the east, and Wyszków Zatonie in the south.

History

The first mention of Königshain comes from a country purchase the monastery of St. Marienthal from the possession of Bolko of Bieberstein on Friedland from 1280. After the monastery had in 1304 extended his possessions in Königshain, it acquired in 1346 the remaining part of the place of the Dohnaer viscount. Since 1384 can be located in a church to prove. As a monastic village Königshain remained Catholic after the Reformation. In 1493 the church was replaced by a new one which was dedicated to St. Bartholomew. In 1766 the church had become too small and there began a new building, designed by Johann Joseph Kuntz from Reichenberg. On July 13, 1769 fair was made by the Auxiliary Bishop of Prague Andreas Kaiser.

Built in 1773 Archbishop Anton Peter Příchovský Příchovice in Königshain the " brotherhood to the everlasting adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Altar ," which was confirmed by Clement XIV in the same year. After King grove was reached in 1635 as part of Upper Lusatia from Bohemia to the Electorate of Saxony, the church belonged until 1783 to the archbishopric of Prague and then to the diocese of Bautzen.

Between 1818 and 1821 a new parsonage was built and renovated from 1822 to 1823, the school house. The owner of the Kretschams held the local jurisdiction. 1770 a fire destroyed the Kretscham, same thing happened again in 1852. In 1830, the city had 1275 inhabitants who lived mainly from agriculture and linen weaving and spinning. 1840, the floor of the church was equipped with granite slabs from the Königshainer mountains. By 1853 the population had increased to 1479. 1847 was a spinning school that was destroyed five years later when Kretschambrand.

1933 lived 1094 people belonging to the Amtshauptmannschaft Zittau community. After the end of the Second World War, the two kilometers east of the Neisse situated village to Poland and the German inhabitants came were expelled. The first place was given the name Królewszczyzny and remained a separate municipality. Around 1970 was the annexation to Bogatynia.

Attractions

• Baroque St. Bartholomew's church with altar
• Numerous half-timbered houses, including a gatehouse
• Triangulierungsstation Königshain ( " Nagelsche pillar") of the Royal Saxon triangulation on the Heideberg ( Porębka ) east of Königshain (2011 reorganized )