Kotlarnia

Jacob Walde (Polish: Kotlarnia ) is a village with about 780 inhabitants on the Birawka in Upper Silesia, Poland. It belongs to the rural municipality in the district of Birawa Kędzierzyn - Cosel ( powiat Kędzierzyńsko - Kozielski ) in the Opole Voivodeship.

History

Jacob Walde was founded by the owner of the rule Slawentzitz, Jakob Heinrich Count von Flemming, who had set up in 1709 named after him brass hammer here. For the hammer and a brass mill, wire mill and a mirror factory, which were added soon, recruited Fleming, a native of Saxony, with tax exemptions workers from the Erzgebirge and Brandenburg. Through an exchange transaction came Jacob Walde, as the entire rule Slawentzitz, 1714 in the possession of Count Adolf Magnus von Hoym.

The timber resources of Slawentzitzer forests, the calamine from the rich deposits at Scharley ( Szarlej ) northeast of Bytom and imported from Hungary copper formed a good basis for Jacob Walder brass fabrication. After Silesia became Prussian in 1742, the brass movement expanded rapidly. Within 50 years, created a spoon factory, a Galmeimühle, four new furnaces for brass, five Lattunhütten, wire hut and a Zainhammer.

The new owner of the domain from 1782 Friedrich Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe- Ingelfingen taught in Jacob Walde a Fürstliches hut office, which oversaw the production of iron in the neighboring towns.

Johann Karl basket, which was 1810-1820 Oberhütte Director Jacob Walde, enjoyed its heyday. In addition to the construction of new mills and cottages designed basket the townscape completely new. A central cabin square was where the site of an old grist wooden church in the neo-classical building of 1815 established the Protestant Church, which is a replica of the Church of St. Marie de Batignolles in Paris was the townscape coined. At the large rectangular space also emerged a new rectory and a Protestant school that completed the ensemble with the baroque hut office building and the smelter. On the side streets leading- created homes for the ironworkers.

With the dynamic increase of the industry to Bytom the transport of calamine of Bytom by Jacob Walde became unprofitable in the mid-19th century. In 1848, therefore, almost all the huts had to stop its production and the workers left the place. Jacob Walde was so insignificant that 1908 the parish was transferred to Slawentzitz. By 1945, the town belonged to the county Cosel.

After 1945, the venue became known Kotlarnia. The 1945 burned rectory was rebuilt, but in a non- member of the ensemble of the cabin space matching redesign.

By 1972 Jacob Walde formed a large community ( gmina ), with the local government reform it was from 1 January 1973 part of the municipality Birawa.

Main employer is now a sand pit operation, Kopalnia Piasku " Kotlarnia " SA.

The place Jacob Walde is predominantly inhabited by immigrant miners Polish nationality, while in the other places of the greater community Birawa 80 % of residents have German nationality. In 1999 it came into the church in a dispute over the proposed closure of the school in the Polish-language site.

On 10 January 2011, the City also received the official German place names Jacob Walde.

Population Development

1820: 2000 inhabitants 1861: 954 1885: 457 ( 2.43 km ², with Gutsbezirk ) 1925: 276 1939: 245 ( 0.9 km ²) 1971: 1,600 ( 68 km ² area of ​​the municipality )

Personalities

• Ernst Friedrich Zwirner, the architect of the Cologne Cathedral, was born on February 28, 1802 the son of a master cabin in the woods Jacob.