Kowary

Kowary [ kɔvarɨ ] ( German Schmiedeberg in the Giant Mountains ) is a town in southwestern Poland. The city is part of the powiat Jeleniogórski in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship and is located at the foot of the Giant Mountains and the Landeshuter comb. Kowary belongs to the Euro region Neisse.

History

Schmiedeberg was first mentioned in 1355 in a document, as the densely forested region was cleared by German settlers in the northern Giant Mountains. Notes on an already existing older settlement in connection with a local ore mining include publications on the history of the city from the years before the First World War, and of Ephraim Ignatius Naso, in the 17th century jurist and historian in Schweidnitz, today ( Świdnica ).

A message to local history by Schmiedeberg on the Internet by the present city administration Kowary in Poland says that in 1148 iron ore was found in the area of ​​today's Kowary / Schmiedeberg in 1158 and was removed at the behest of the Polish prince Bolesław Kędzierzawy. This created a small settlement in serfdom, in which the processing of the iron ore obtained was operated by iron hammers. The settlement developed successfully in competition with the not distant Hirschberg. The miners took in 1241 at the Battle of Wahlstatt against the Mongols and their auxiliary peoples part.

On September 4, 1513 Schmiedeberg received by the Czech king Vladislav II, the city charter and the confirmation of the coat of arms. In addition to Wroclaw and Schweidnitz Schmiedeberg was one of the most important centers of the iron industry of the 16th century in Lower Silesia. First of all firearms were a popular product of the local artisans. In the Thirty Years' War, the city was largely destroyed and ended the heyday of the place. Due to a flood of ore pit mining came to a standstill. As a livelihood to the craft of weaving developed on handlooms.

1741 was the place along with the whole of Silesia under the rule of the Prussian King Friedrich II of Hohenzollern. In the 18th and 19th century, there were attempts to revive the mining industry.

After the end of World War II in May 1945 Schmiedeberg had about 4000 inhabitants. The hitherto almost exclusively German population fled before or during the conquest of the city by troops of the Soviet Union to the West or was forced by the Polish authorities to leave the place. Settlers from eastern Poland took over possession. The city's name was translated into Polish. In addition to the textile industry was from 1948 to 1972 and the uranium ore mining of importance.

Incorporations

The places Krzaczyna ( Busch Vorwerk ) Podgórze ( Arnsberg ) and Voikov ( high grassland) have been incorporated.

Attractions

  • Chapel of St. Anne
  • Late Gothic Catholic parish church St. Marien Franziskanerplatz
  • Palace of the Prince of Reuss - Koestritz " Neuhof " (now Nowy Dwór )
  • Palais Ruhberg (now Ciszyca ) and former landscape park, until 1831 owned by the Prince Anton Radziwill
  • Neoclassical City Hall, built in 1768-1769 with the participation of Landeshuter architect Carl Gotthard Langhans
  • Baroque stone bridge with a statue of St. Nepomuk
  • Miniature Park by Marian Piasecki on the former site of carpet weaving

Twin Cities

  • Jaegerspris (Denmark)
  • Kamien Pomorski ( dt.Cammin ) (Poland )
  • Schönau- Berzdorf ( Germany )
  • Vrchlabí ( Hohenelbe ) ( Czech Republic)

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Martin Fruwein († 1621), one of the most active participants of the Czech revolt of 1618
  • Ernst Meister (1887-1939), Prussian State Geologist
  • Friedrich- August Schack (1892-1968), General of the Infantry, the Knight's Cross
  • Lew Hohmann (* 1944), German filmmaker and film scholar

Say

Schmiedeberg is mentioned in several Rubezahl Saying. The legends The magic wand and Rubezahl leads a concert to play in the resort. In the first Rubezahl Sage gives a naturalist a magic wand, in seconds, large distances can be covered with. In the other say Rubezahl punishes Schmiedeberger town musician Knarr. Since Knarr had claimed that with his music to charm even Rubezahl, Rubezahl Knarr and an orchestra enchanted so that it is turned on the occasion of a great concert in monkeys and bears and horribly played without creaking himself could perceive it that way. Knarr never claimed to back can enchant the mountain spirit.

Voivodeship (Poland) Vehicle registration plates of Poland Gmina Rudawy Janowickie Wrocław Alexander Duncker Antoni Radziwiłł Friedrich-August Schack Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Janowice Wielkie Karpacz
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