Orłowiec
Orłowiec ( German Schoenau also Schönau b. Landeck ) is a village in the south of the powiat Kłodzki in the Province of Lower Silesia in Poland. It is located five kilometers north of Lądek -Zdrój ( Bad Landeck ), whose community it belongs to.
Geography
Orłowiec lies to the east of the Glatzer boiler in Reichensteiner Mountains. It is reached by a road that branches north of Lądek -Zdrój of the Province Road 390 and on the pass Przełęcz Różaniec ( Rosary pass ) ends. The continuation of the road across the border leads to Bila Voda. Neighboring towns are Wrzosówka, Lutynia and Wojtówka the southeast and Droszków in the West. North of Orłowiec the county border runs for powiat Ząbkowicki three kilometers east of the border with the Czech Republic. South-east rises the 900 -meter-high blueberry Koppe ( Borówkowa ), west of the 680 m high Kahleberg ( Lysy Garb ).
History
Orłowiec was first mentioned in 1352 as Schonaw. It belonged to the rule Karpenstein in Glatz and was dedicated to the parish church Reyersdorf. Beginning of the 17th century the manor Schönau the Friedrich von Reder on Reyersdorf, which was expropriated in 1625 by the emperor because of his participation in the Bohemian uprising. This Schönau came together with Reyersdorf to the Baron von Neuhaus, who had acquired as a colonel on the part of the Imperial merits at the siege of Glatz. He had initially been awarded the rule of neurodegeneration, but fell after the conversion of Bernard of Stillfriedplatz back to this. 1628 had 4,000 dollars for the construction of Glatzer deanery will be provided at the direction of the Emperor of the goods Reyersdorf and Schönau. 1748 exchanged Maximilian von Haugwitz from Pish Schukowitzgasse the Good Schönau against the rule Gellenau with Johann Georg von Ullersdorf. This belonged to the Order of Malta and was a canon at the cathedral in Hradec Kralove. The sound of his mother for the Königgrätzer cathedral capital of 17,000 guilders, he transferred to the estate Schönau.
After the Silesian Wars Schönau coincided with the county of Glatz in 1763 with the Peace of Hubertusburg to Prussia. After the reorganization of Prussia belonged since 1815 to the province of Silesia and was first incorporated into the county of Glatz. 1818 was reclassified in the newly formed district Habelschwerdt to which it belonged until 1945. Since 1874, the country was incorporated into the municipality of Schönau District Reyersdorf. 1939 counted 359 inhabitants.
As a result of World War II Schönau 1945 as almost all of Silesia was lost to Poland and was renamed Orłowiec. The German population was expelled. The new inhabitants were partly displaced from eastern Poland. Since many of them left again in the coming decades Orłowiec, the vast number of houses and farms were left to decay. In the 1990s, the number of inhabitants amounted to about a quarter of the population by 1939. Orłowiec 1975-1998 belonged to the province Wałbrzych.
Attractions
- The branch church of St. Sebastian was built from 1770 to 1780. It has a late Baroque interior that is Michael Klahr Younger attributed.
- The farm in the lower village, the manor house was built in 1787, is located in a poor state of repair.
Personalities
- Franz Volkmer (1846-1930), educator and local historian