Gorzów Śląski
Gorzow Slaski [ gɔʒuf ɕlõsci ] ( German: Landsberg in Upper Silesia ) is a city in Poland. It is located 16 km north-east of Kluczbork on the left bank of the Prosna and heard the Opole Voivodeship on. The city and its surrounding areas have a German minority.
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History
The place is believed to have been founded before 1270, because since that time a Castellan is detectable, the exact location of the old castle, which was built in 1241 as an outpost in the struggle against the Golden Horde, it is not known. The river Prosna formed the historic border between Silesia and Great Poland, the area around Landsberg on the west bank at the time was part of the Duchy of Wroclaw.
The first mention of the city Landesberch stat unde hus dates from 1294 when Duke Henry V of Wroclaw this area to Duke Henry III. was forced to resign from Glogau. Landsberg came in 1312 to the Duchy of oil which in 1323 the Duchy Brieg and finally in 1368 to the Duchy of Opole. Due to its border location Landsberg had often suffered from fighting, 1394 and 1446 were the Poles and devastated the associated as a fief to the crown of Bohemia since 1329 city.
In 1499 acquired Hans Frankenberg Proschlitz of the rule, which still had eight more places next to the city, from the possession of the Duke John of Opole. Until 1717 Landsberg belonged to this family.
The town, which was laid out in regular features around a central ring, probably had at no time a city wall. Its inhabitants were farming citizens and craftsmen. 1585 founded the pottery their guild, 1630 did so the shoemakers and tailors in 1700. In addition to these trades also several master weavers were based in Landsberg. In the city there was an ironworks that handles degraded in the environment Keuper- Eisenstein and was decommissioned in 1914.
1696 and 1734 were large parts of Landsberg's city fire victims. In 1742, Landsberg to Prussia. 1804 acquired Friedrich Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe- Ingelfingen the rule. 1816 Landsberg became part of the newly established district Rosenberg.
The Protestant parish church was built in 1857, 1895 replaced the Catholic community the wooden Trinity Church by a solid construction.
Landsberg lived mainly from cross-border trade with Poland and had 1830, the right to hold six fairs. In 1896, the Raging Pauline called narrow- gauge railway to Rosenberg its operation, which was expanded in the other direction in 1916 to the Polish Wieluń. In 1899, the railway border station Zawisna four kilometers north of Landsberg towards the Polish border town Praszka. After the First World War, the city lost its importance, the passage of seasonal workers has decreased significantly, cross-border trade came to a standstill.
In the years 1926-1928 the reconstruction of the railway line to standard gauge took place. The adjacent village of Landsberg in 1929 incorporated into the city. 1930 he acquired the Upper Silesian Land Company the south of the city center manor Landsberg of the Prince of Hohenlohe and established a settlement there.
After the end of the Second World War, the city came under the administration of Poland. In Polish it is called Gorzow Slaski. The City of district Więckowice Nowe heard (Vienna Schukowitzgasse, 1936-1945: Wiesbach OS).
According to the last census in Poland from 2002 belong to 17,0 % of the municipality population of the German minority, a further 2.6 % identified themselves as Silesians. The share of German origin but is probably much higher, not least because 489 persons ( 6.2%) did not specify their nationality.
Population Development
Sons and daughters of the town
- Julius Landsberger (* 1822 in Skronskau, † 1894 in Köthen ), Rabbi
- Nathanael Pringsheim (* 1823 in New Wziesko, now part of Dobijacz, † 1894 in Berlin), German botanist
- Heinrich von Aulock (* 1824 in Upper Seichwitz; † March 5, 1885 ), physician and member of the Reichstag
- Siegfried difficulty (* 1838, † 1915 in Lübeck), pharmacist and chemist, father of Erich Mühsam
- Gertrude Guillaume Schack - (* 1845 in Uschütz, † 1903 in Surbiton, United Kingdom), suffragist
- Herbert soft man (* 1896, † 1983 in Hamburg), German politician
- Götz Gode (* 1905, † 1969 in Dresden), German writer
- Friedhelm Winkelmann (* 1929), German theologian
Gmina
The urban and rural community Gorzow Slaski covers an area of 154.12 km ² with a population of 7,750 ( 2005). This includes the towns of: Budzów ( Busow, 1936-45: Forest field ), Dębina ( Dupine, 1936-45: Kost Berg), Gola ( Gohle ), Jamy ( Jamm, 1936-45: Weidental ) Jastrzygowice ( Jastrzigowitz, 1936-45: Hartwigsdorf ) Kobyla Góra ( essence village), Kozlowice ( Kosel joke, 1936-45 Josefshöhe ) Krzyżanowice ( Krysanowitz, 1936-45: Kreuzhütte ), Nowa Wies Oleska ( Neudorf ), Pakoszów ( Donnersmark ) Pawłowice Gorzowskie (Paul village), Skrońsko ( Skronskau, 1936-45: Buchental ) Uszyce ( Uschütz, 1936-45: Wittenau ), and Zdziechowice Dolne ( Seichwitz, 1936-45: Richterstal ) with Dobijacz ( Dobiatz, 1936-45: mountain Hut).