Podgórki, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Podgórki ( German low Hartmann village ) is a town in the municipality Świerzawa, powiat Złotoryjski, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. It is in Kaczawskie Mountains on the edge of the Jelenia Góra Valley in the Western Sudetes on the road 365 Province of Jelenia Góra by Jawor.
History
In the 16th century it belonged to Deep Hartmann village (as it was then written ) the brothers George and Heinz von Elbel, pawned it to John of Zedlitz and Balzer Reder. The latter sold his share on 25 August 1597 Bernard of Zedlitz. Deep Hartmann village was one of the oldest possession of been established in Silesia Lords of Zedlitz. At low Hartmann village also included a marble quarry and lime kilns and numerous mills.
The village had loud Pierers lexicon of 1863 about 1,300 inhabitants; In 1939 there were 1,083. It was also the seat of the Prussian founded in 1874 Amtsbezirks low Hartmann village from the rural communities Ratschin and low Hartmann village and the Gutsbezirk low Hartmann village. By 1945 the parish village belonged to the circle of government Schönau district Liegnitz in the Prussian province of Silesia.
Castle
The first lock in low Hartmann village was built in 1728 by Carl Gottlieb von Zedlitz.
The Lords of Zedlitz and Neukirch were until 1874, owners of low Hartmann village. Only the royal master of ceremonies Baron Hugo Konrad von Zedlitz and Neukirch (he was the last of his race ), who had taken over the old family estate in 1849, it was sold after 25 years to Count Ferdinand von Harrach. He built the castle located in the village for radically.
After Harrach's death was his son Christoph Johann Friedrich Graf Vitzthum of Eckstadt (1863-1944), 1909-1918 Saxon interior and foreign minister, owner of the castle.