Korfantów

Korfantów ( German Friedland in Upper Silesia ) is a town with 1,800 inhabitants in Poland. It is located 22 km east of Nysa ( Neisse ) on the right bank of Steinau and belongs to the powiat Nyski in the Opole Voivodeship.

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History

The timing of the city's founding is unknown, as the north-eastern village of Friedland. 1323 is documentary evidence of a Heinrich von Friedland. In 1327 Friedland was a part of Bohemia. The first mention of the church to Hurthlanth in 1335 is also the first written evidence of the city.

Friedland had many landlords in its history. Among them were the Schaffgotsch as the owner in the time from 1535 to 1594, under which the Reformation was carried out. Heinrich Wencel of Nowagk made ​​this in 1629 with the Counter-Reformation reversed. The Nowagk followed in 1670 by the Counts of Burghauß. 1825 was a rebuilding and enlargement of originating from the year 1616 the castle around which a landscape park was created.

1885 inherited Carl Graf von Pueckler Friedland and called himself by Pueckler Burghauß.

Since 1742 the city Friedland belonged to Prussia and she was deprived of the municipal law because insignificance. 1816 Friedland was part of the district Falkenberg.

1867 The market was Friedland back the city rights and the village of Friedland was incorporated. 1928 the Gutsbezirk became a part of the city.

1909 was the consecration of the new building of Trinity Church. The Catholic priest Valentin Wojciech was in 1920 appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Breslau.

At the beginning of the 20th century, a machine factory moved to. Otherwise, the light industry was predominant, there were curtains and lace weaving, shoe factory, also a sawmill, a brickyard and a wire fence factory.

During World War II Friedland was bombed and suffered damage. The cemetery was badly damaged, the Michaelis chapel in the cemetery burned down and the castle was badly damaged, the town church was hit on the stairs.

1945, the city was Polish and lost its city charter again. Residents were to camp Łambinowice ( Lamsdorf ) deported ( sat as Stalag VIII B 344) and Polish refugees from the fallen to the Soviet Union territories located in 1946. Friedland was renamed after the Polish partisans and politicians Wojciech Korfanty that the city had never set foot in Korfantów.

Since 1993 Korfantów is a city again and is twinned with the Mecklenburg Friedland.

Population Development

Personalities

  • Theodore of Kolde (1850-1913), a Protestant church historian and Luther researchers.
  • Carl Friedrich von Pueckler castle Hauss (1886-1945), politician and Nazi SS officer.
  • Curt Thomalla (1890-1939), German writer, neurologist and social medicine
  • Mia Pankau (1891-1974), German silent film actress
  • Judy Winter ( born 1944 in Friedland as Beate Richard ), German theater and film actress and voice actress.

Gmina

The urban and rural commune ( gmina miejsko - wiejska ) Korfantów covers an area of ​​179.78 km ², living on the 9,876 people ( 2005). This includes the following localities:

  • Borek ( Leopold village)
  • Gryżów ( Griesau )
  • Jegielnica ( Juglitz )
  • Kuropas ( Korpiz, 1936-45: Korndorf )
  • Korfantów ( Friedland O.S. )
  • Kuznica Ligocka ( Ellguth Hammer )
  • Myszowice ( Mauschwitz, 1936-45: Mauschdorf )
  • Niesiebędowice ( Nussdorf )
  • Piechocice ( Piechotzütz, 1936-45: Bauerngrund )
  • Plešnica ( Plieschnitz, Plieschratz, 1936-45: Fuchsberg )
  • Przechód ( Psychod, 1936-45: Forest ford )
  • Przydroże Małe (Klein Quick village)
  • Przydroże Wielkie (Great Quick village)
  • Puszyna ( Puschine, 1936-45: Erlenburg )
  • Rączka ( Rainisch )
  • Rynarcice ( Rennersdorf )
  • Rzymkowice ( ring joke)
  • Ścinawa Mała ( Steinau O.S. )
  • Ścinawa Nyska (stone village)
  • Stara Jamka ( until 1918: Polish Jamke, then Jamke, 1936-45: Heinrichshof OS)
  • Węża ( Prock village)
  • Wielkie Łąki ( Hiller village)
  • Włodary ( Volkmannsdorf )
  • Włostowa ( Floste )

Twin Cities

  • Friedland (Mecklenburg)
  • Friedland ( Lower)
  • Friedland (Lower Saxony)
  • Prawdinsk ( Friedland in East Prussia ), Russia
  • Frýdlant v Čechách ( Friedland ( Jizera Mountains ) ), Czech Republic
  • Frýdlant nad Ostravicí ( Friedland at the Ostravice ), Czech Republic
  • Mieroszów ( Friedland in Lower Silesia ), Poland

References

Voivodeship (Poland) Vehicle registration plates of Poland Alexander Duncker House of Schaffgotsch Protestant Reformation Stalag VIII-B Kamiennik, Opole Voivodeship Gmina Skoroszyce
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