Radomierzyce, Zgorzelec County

Radomierzyce ( German Radmeritz ) is a village with 316 inhabitants in the eastern part of Upper Lusatia in the southwest of the Republic of Poland. It belongs to the municipality of Zgorzelec powiat Zgorzelecki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.

Geography

Radomierzyce is located about 10 kilometers south of Zgorzelec, and about 10 kilometers south-east of Görlitz. A bridge across the Neisse, which marks the border with the Federal Republic of Germany, connects the village since 2003 with the members of the town of Görlitz place Hagenwerder.

In Radomierzyce the Wittig (Polish Witka ) opens into the Lusatian Neisse. After the division of Upper Lusatia, the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to 1945 Wittig formed the boundary between the remaining with the Kingdom of Saxony, the western part of Upper Lusatia and the Kingdom of Prussia defeated the eastern part. Since 1945, the village is part of the Polish territory.

History and Buildings

While the majority of the building stock of the place from the 19th and early 20th century comes, Radomierzyce is still marked by the buildings that were built during the lifetime of Radmeritzer landlord and Polish- Saxon chamber Joachim Sigismund von Ziegler and Klipphausen. In his order came to 1728 after plans Saxon chief master builder the Free World Protestant nobles Fräuleinstift Joachim stone in the shape of a three-wing moated castle with garden shed, cavalier house and gardens in the French style. Earlier, Ziegler and Klipphausen already perform fundamentally new after a fire, the church until 1713, and erected the stables and the Forstmeisterei. Even the core of the still existing mill on the Wittig goes back to Joachim Sigismund von Ziegler and Klipphausen.

The conclusion to the construction activities with the tomb house for the Canoness in the churchyard of Radomierzyce, which applies in addition to the Kanitz - Kyawschen tomb in Hainewalde as the most splendid noble Gruftbau Upper Lusatia. West of the tomb house of Canoness the grave plate fragment of 1313 died Mr. Lossow is let into the churchyard wall. More grave slabs of the 16th and 17th centuries, with life-size representations of the noble dead in half relief are located on the outside wall of the church. Joachim Sigismund von Ziegler and Klipphausen is buried in a separate tomb house, which he had to attach the apex of the Church Choir. This Radomierzyce features a distinctive stock of physical certificates noble sepulchral culture from the High Middle Ages to the Baroque period.

View of the church from the north

Crypt house of Canoness