Podgórzyn, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Podgórzyn [ pɔdguʒɨn ] ( German greed village) is a town in southwestern Poland and seat of the rural municipality ( gmina wiejska ). It is located in the powiat Jeleniogórski of Lower Silesia at the foot of the Giant Mountains, part of the Euro region Neisse and has numerous guest beds.
Geography
The municipal area extends about 12 km south of Jelenia Góra ( Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains ) on the southern edge of the Hirschberg Valley along, some places are already part of the Giant Mountains.
The main town Podgórzyn itself, to 350-480 m above sea level. Sea level at the river Podgórna in each case about 15 km to the tourist centers Karpacz ( Karpacz ) in the southeast and Szklarska Poręba (Schreiberhau ) located in the west, forms the gateway to the central portion of the Polish mountain part. The highest mountain in the municipality is the Small balaclava (Polish Maly Szyszak ) at 1,440 m above sea level. NN. In the south, the municipality borders the Czech Republic; the state border runs along the main ridge of the Giant Mountains.
History
Podgórzyn is probably founded by the Cistercian monastery of the Heinrichau from the 13th century. The place is first mentioned in 1305 as Gerardi villa in a monk's chronicle during 1348 in a deed of the Piast dynasty of the Duchy of Świdnica and Jawor already the name Gierßdorf used.
Greed village changed hands several times the owner and arrived in 1600 and then again in 1683, after an expropriation imperial behest during the Thirty Years' War and decades of litigation in the possession of this part of Silesia very influential noble family Schaffgotsch. This circumstance gave greed village a long-lasting economic boom. Already at the beginning of the 17th century, a bell foundry was built with attached cannon forged in place, their products have been exported to Spain. 1681 followed by a paper mill and the end of the 18th century, two sawmills. During the first half of the 19th century, a glass-cutting started its operations.
Tourism flourished in the 19th century. In 1911, the Hirschberg Valley Railway is opened, a tram line with Cieplice and Hirschberg connects greed village in the Giant Mountains and their last stop docking in the starting point of the local hiking trails in the Giant Mountains.
After the Second World War and the annexation of Lower Silesia, Poland by greed village was renamed in 1946 in Podgórzyn and expelled the German population. 1975-1998 Podgórzyn part of the former province Jelenia Góra, which is since 1999 part of the new Province of Lower Silesia.
Attractions
Well worth seeing is the picturesque landscape at the transition from the Jelenia Góra Valley to the Giant Mountains, some with old oak avenues. A special feature are the greed Teiche ( stawy Podgórzyńskie ) at the foot of the mountains dar. It is a system of interconnected large fish ponds, yet whose origins go back to the Cistercians of the 13th century, and at the same time to the highest complex of its kind in this part of Central Europe. Of the fish restaurants in the ponds from can also admire very well the mountain panorama.
Between Podgórzyn and the village Sosnówka the completed in the 1990s Sosnówka Dam ( Zbiornik Sosnówka or Jezioro Sosnówka ) with a dam of 1.5 km in length and 20 m in height and an area of 1.7 km ² ( extends as drinking water a reservoir for the public locked). You can explore the castle in the district is also Staniszów ( Stonsdorf ). Quite near Podgórzyn is also the castle Chojnik ( Kynast castle ).
The municipal area above Borowice ( Baberhäuser ) and Przesieka (Hain ) belongs to Karkonoski Park Narodowy ( Giant Mountains National Park ). Numerous hiking trails in all parts of the mountains. About the spindle Pass ( Przełęcz Karkonoska, tschech. Slezské saddleback ) with the Polish Bergbaude Schronisko Odrodzenie and the Czech SPINDLEROVA Bouda ( Spindler Baude ) leads over to Spindleruv Mlyn ( Spindleruv Mlyn ) in the Czech Republic.
Community
The rural commune ( gmina wiejska ) Podgórzyn sits down except the eponymous capital still composed of the following districts:
- Borowice ( Baberhäuser )
- Głębock ( Glausnitz )
- Marczyce ( March village)
- Miłków ( Arnsdorf )
- Przesieka ( Park in the Giant Mountains)
- Ściegny (stone Seiffen )
- Sosnówka ( Seidorf )
- Staniszów ( Stonsdorf )
- Zachełmie ( Saalberg )
Partnerships
- Spindleruv Mlyn ( Spindleruv Mlyn ) Czech Republic
Say
In the village greed Rubezahl saga plays The mendacious Tuchscherer. According to the legend dished a Tuchscherer during a hike on Rubezahl boastful tall tales. In parting conjured Rubezahl the Tuchscherer a huge nose in the face, which was surrounded by smaller noses. It was not until the next day Tuchscherer promised to never again tell lies, he was returned to its original appearance.