Siedlęcin

Siedlęcin ( German Bober Röhrsdorf ) is a village in the rural community Jeżów Sudecki is powiat Jeleniogórski, Poland. It lies between the Modre Sea to the southeast and the Wrzeszczyński Lake in the west, four kilometers north-west of Jelenia Góra.

History

The town was first mentioned in 1305 as Rudgersdorf. Other forms of the name were 1369 Rudigersdorff, 1668: Boberröhrsdorff, 1687 and 1786 Bober Bober Röhrsdorff - Röhrsdorf. In 1905 the spelling Bober Röhrsdorf has been introduced. From 1816 to 1945, the village belonged to the district of Hirschberg.

After the Second World War, the village became part of Poland and first found in 1945, the name Borowice, Bobrowice, Sobięcin use. Since 1946 is the place name Siedlęcin. Between 1975 and 1998, the village was part of Jelenia Gora Voivodship and has since been to the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.

Structures

• The Gothic parish church of St. Nicholas from the 14th century, was rebuilt several times in the following years. While the lower rib- vaulted choir, the nave terminates a wooden ceiling. The onion spire dates from 1915.
• The late Baroque, formerly Protestant Bethauskirche is today the Catholic auxiliary church Maria Hilf. It is a hall building with mansard roof and roof skylights, built from 1780 to 1782.
• The Gothic residential tower was built for Duke Henry I of Jawor. Its construction is dated to the years 1313/1314, in the 15th century, it was increased. Art historically significant are the 1880 discovered Gothic murals in the main hall on the 3rd floor of the residential tower. They are probably made ​​around 1345/46. The painter came from the area of ​​present-day northern Switzerland. The wall paintings are also unique in terms of their secular content, they represent scenes from the Arthurian legend; they are also the only medieval paintings in Europe, the show with Lancelot a Knight of the Round Table. But there are also depictions of religious content as the heavenly Jerusalem on the vault, or St. Christopher, the patron of all knights and a model of steadfast loyalty to his Lord Christ, so an example of a good Christian and vassals. The tower has been created next to a ford across the Bober on the way from Prague to Wroclaw and was originally surrounded by fortifications, which were leveled to 1840. During the 2nd World War, private art goods from Berlin were transferred to various Silesian castles etc. in the residential tower Bober Röhrsdorf where they were confiscated after the war by the Red Army and brought into the USSR.