Osiecznica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Osiecznica [ ɔɕɛt͡ʃɲit͡sa ] ( German: Wehrau ) is a village and capital of the same rural community in the western part of Poland - about 70 km south of Zielona Góra and 120 km north-east of Dresden in powiat Boleslawiecki the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. The community is a member of the euro region Neisse and has about 7000 inhabitants.
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History
Rule Wehrau
Wehrau was in the Middle Ages landesherrlichem area in Upper Lusatia. With the 1393 made by Duke John of Görlitz pledge on the heath area between Big Tschirne and Queis to the Lords of Rechenberg on Kliczków the rule Kliczków oberlausitzischen proportion who received Rechberger 1579 by Emperor Rudolf II as a feud was born.
Between 1612 and 1631 was the separation of the dominions Wehrau and Kliczków, the owner of the domain Wehrau took its seat since 1620 in low- ford. 1690 Balthasar Erdmann Graf von Promnitz on Sorau, Triebel, Halbau, Burau and Freiwaldau also owner of Wehrau who had a palace built in the same year by the Grisons architect Giulio Simonetti. He changed the name of the rule in rule Wehrau.
Since 1725 Wehrau was no rule but merely a heritage that was reunited in 1747 with the reign Kliczków. Owner of the rule was in 1800 Johann Christian Reich Graf zu Solms -Tecklenburg.
Village
The village Wehrau was a center of glass, iron and paper. The mid-19th century built glassworks was restructured in 1936 to Glasschleiferei Andreas hut. Already in 1690, Count of Promnitz create a blast furnace for smelting of iron ore from lawn Heiligensee, 1786 was yet another operation. 1861 Wehrau were operated each two fresh fire and steel hammers in the iron hammer. The iron hammer was in 1869 in the ironworks and Emaillerwerk Lorenz village. Already in the 16th century a paper mill was operated in the village, 1786 is reported from two paper mills, however, appeared towards the end of the 19th century its operation.
Of significance were the stately limestone quarries, in the several drainage adit were driven and numerous inhabitants offered work. Between these fractures and the village also sand quarries were located.
After 1815 Wehrau was in the Prussian part of Upper Lusatia and Silesia region was assigned to the Boleslawiec with the rule villages in 1818.
The construction of the railway between Hirschberg and Sagan got Wehrau 1904 a railway connection. 1825 lived in Wehrau 2500 inhabitants, the village had 400 houses. In 1939 there were only 793 inhabitants.
In Osiecznica, which is part of Poland since 1945, is a branch company of the quartz group works to reduce silica sand for the glass and ceramics industries.
A geological feature is the devil weir, a waterfall of Queis that breaks a rock formation here.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Edgar Rabsch (1928-1990), German organist, choirmaster and composer
- Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817), German mineralogist
Gmina
For the rural community Osiecznica include eight Soltysships that manage the following localities:
- Kliczków ( Kliczków )
- Luboszów ( Lipschau - Dohm )
- Ławszowa ( Lorenz village)
- Osiecznica ( Wehrau )
- Osieczów ( Aschitzau )
- Ołobok ( Mühlbock )
- Parowa (deep ford )
- Poświętne ( Heiligensee )
- Przejęsław ( Prinzendorf )
- Świętoszów ( Neuhammer a Queis )
- Tomisław ( Thommendorf )
Świętoszów is the site of a military training area, which was the largest in Silesia before 1945.