Małomice
Małomice [ mawɔm iʦɛ ʲ ] ( German Mallmitz ) is a town with about 3,600 inhabitants in Poland. It lies between Szprotawa ( Sprottau ) and Żagań ( Sagan ) at Bober four kilometers ahead of the opening of the Queis. The city is a powiat Żagański, Lubusz Voivodeship. The town lies on the railway line between Berlin and Krakow. About 45 km to the north is the Zielona Góra voivodship; Małomice is 55 km east of the German border and 85 km north of the Czech border.
History
Małomice goes back to a Slavic settlement. After 1877 the Bober tool from deer antlers had been found occupied excavations in the 1930s based on vessel finds a probable age of the from 1000 to 1200.
The first written mention of the village on the edge of Mallmitz - Sprott Auer Heath is from 1329. The village lived from agriculture and Raseneisensteingräberei. Approximately 1572 awarded the Lords of Schoenaich Mallmitz limited civic rights. 1496 was the establishment of a St. Mary's Chapel, which was gepfarrt to the church in Eisenberg. This chapel, which also served as the family tomb of Kittlitz in 1737 it was rebuilt in Baroque style. 1741 followed by the construction of a Protestant church. A year later the Silesian village came to Prussia, and in 1816 part of the district Sprottau.
More important than the village was the extensive ancient manorial, had extensive possessions in the principalities Sagan and Glogau. Particularly emphasized by the Barons of Schoenaich Fabian of Schoenaich, one of the largest landowners in Lower Silesia and Lusatia, who held dominion 1400-1680, it was inherited by the Counts of Rederns. 1740 were out Mallmitz the dominions Primkenau and Kotzenau owned by the Barons of Rederns. About the succession came Mallmitz 1766 the viscount of Dohna who possessed the rule until 1945. Seat of government was an old water castle, which has been rebuilt in 1690 into a Renaissance chateau.
The rule included several iron hammers that were in Mallmitz, Eisenberg ( Rudawica ) Neuhammer am Queis, Upper Eulau ( Iława Śląska ) and the " Old Hammer" between Mallmitz and Sprottau. The Mallmitzer bog iron was delivered in 1700 to a total of 17 hammer mills along the Tschirne and Queis. 1801 emerged from the Mallmitzer hammer Marienhütte was taken with a blast furnace and four refining fires in operation, the plant closed in 1933.
1875 received Mallmitz with the branch railway from Arnsdorf ( Miłkowice ) at Liegnitz Sagan to a railway terminal, which had a rapid industrial development result.
After the Second World War Mallmitz became part of Poland and was named Małomice. The place had suffered severe war damage, later, the ruins of the castle and also the Protestant church were demolished. Małomice 1958 was elevated to city -like settlement and received city rights in 1969.
Population Development
Twinning
- Zeuthen, Germany, Brandenburg
Sons and daughters of the town
- Robert Pohl (1869-1956), German teacher and local historian
- Nikolaus Graf Dohna - Schlodien (1879-1956), German lieutenant commander and commander of the SMS seagull
Gmina
The urban and rural community Małomice covers an area of 79.5 km ² with about 5,400 inhabitants. This information can include the following localities: Bobrzany ( Girbigsdorf ) Chichy ( Kunz village), Janowiec ( John village), Lubiechów ( Liebichau ) Śliwnik ( Schadendorf ) and Żelisław (silver). The community belongs to the euro region Spree- Neisse - Bober.