Szczepanów, Kamienna Góra County

Szczepanów ( German Tschöpsdorf ) is a district of the rural community Lubawka ( Liebau ) in the powiat Kamiennogórski in the Province of Lower Silesia in Poland.

Geography

Szczepanów located in Rehorngebirge in the Province Road 369, which runs from Lubawka to Kowary. Neighboring towns are Paprotki ( Urban Hartau ) and Lubawka in the northeast, Niedamirów the southwest, Opawa in the west and Miszkowice and Jarkowice in the northwest. In the north, which was built in the early 20th century Bober Dam Jezioro Bukówka is. Across the border to the Czech Republic, which is reached via the border crossing Lubawka - Královec, Královec lie in the southeast, Cerna Voda and Lampertice in the south and Žacléř in the southwest.

History

The area around Tschöpsdorf first belonged to Bohemia and arrived in the 13th century Duke Bolko I. The establishment of Tschöpsdorf, which was initially referred to as " Czepansdorf ", probably made ​​at the beginning of the 14th century. Together with the Duchy Schweidnitz it came again in 1368 to the Crown of Bohemia. Until 1378 it belonged to the noble family Seidlitz, most recently as the Witwengut Marita of Se ( i) dlitz, a governess of the Duchess Agnes. In this years selling Marita's sons Hans Schone bird and Kuncze Hudner the village Tschöpsdorf together with Oppau, Buchenwald and Kunz village with all its possessions and rights of the Cistercian monastery Grüssau. To cover the Turks tax 1558 Tschöpsdorf with Oppau, Kunz village and Buchenwald had to be pledged. During the pledge period Lutheranism developed in the villages. After returning to the monastery was recatholicisation the population.

After the First Silesian War Tschöpsdorf fell in 1742 together with Silesia to Prussia. 1810, the monastery was secularized. After the reorganization of Prussia in 1815 Tschöpsdorf belonged to the province of Silesia and was from 1816 the county Landeshut incorporated, with which it was connected until 1945. It formed its own rural community and belonged to the administrative district Oppau since 1874. 1939 lived 212 inhabitants in Tschöpsdorf.

As a result of World War II Tschöpsdorf fell in 1945 as almost all of Silesia to Poland and was renamed Szczepanów. The German population was expelled. The new inhabitants were partly displaced persons from eastern Poland. 1975-1998 belonged to Szczepanów Voivodeship Jelenia Gora.