Sienna, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Sienna ( German Heudorf ) is a village in the powiat Kłodzki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland. It belongs to the urban and rural community Stronie Śląskie, from which it is four kilometers south-west.

Geography

Sienna is located in the valley of Heudorfer water ( Sienna Woda ) at the northern foot of the mountain Śnieżnik on the province road 392 that leads from Bystrzyca Kłodzka after Lądek Zdrój. Neighboring towns are Rogóżka in the north, Stronie Śląskie in the northeast, Stara Morawa in the east, and Bolesławów Kletno the southeast, Janowa Góra in the west and Marcinków in the northwest. Southwest rises n.p.m. of 1205 m high Black Mountain ( Czarna Góra ).

History

Heudorf was first mentioned in 1560. It belonged to the county of Glatz and was in the possession of the Bohemian chamber. This sold it in 1684 along with other chamber villages in the district of Landeck Glatzer Governor Michael Wenzel von Althann the dominion side mountain formed from the acquired village communities. After the Silesian Wars Heudorf coincided with the county of Glatz in 1763 with the Peace of Hubertusburg to Prussia. After the reorganization of Prussia belonged since 1815 to the province of Silesia and was first incorporated into the county of Glatz. 1818 was reclassified in the newly formed district Habelschwerdt with which it was connected until 1945. 1939 counted 203 inhabitants.

As a result of World War II Heudorf 1945 as almost all of Silesia fell to Poland and was renamed in Sienna. The German population was expelled. The new inhabitants were partly displaced persons from eastern Poland. Many of them left Sienna in the following decades, again, so many houses and farms were left to decay. In the 1990s, the population was less than 10 % of the population of 1939. Since 1945 belonged to Sienna powiat Bystrzycki, which was founded in 1975, as well as the competent until then Wrocław Voivodeship dissolved. 1975, came to the newly formed Province Wałbrzych, which existed until 1998.

Attractions

  • Built in 1690 the funeral chapel of wood was rebuilt in 1728 as a foundation of the then lord Michael Friedrich von Althann of stone.

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