Wierzbięcin, Lubusz Voivodeship

Wierzbięcin ( German Kochendorf ) is a village in the Polish rural community Trzebiel is in the district Zary ( Lubusz Voivodeship ).

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Geography

Wierzbięcin lies just 10 kilometers east of the German - Polish border crossing Bad Muskau Łęknica. The village, together with the neighboring villages Karsówka ( Mühlbach ) and Siemiradz ( Neudorf ) a mayor's office.

History

History

The village was probably founded in the 13th or 14th century by German settlers. Proven in 1458, it was already one of the Lower Silesian principality of Sagan.

Owner of the manor included the lords of the heathen and of doctor blade in the 16th and 17th centuries. End of the 18th century Kochendorf was a saga cal feud.

By resolution of the circle Sagan Kochendorf came in 1932 to the circle Rothenburg. The inhabitants were gepfarrt in the Protestant Church of Zibelle, the school was in the neighboring village of Mühlbach.

After the Second World War, the village in 1945 was located east of the Oder- Neisse line and thus came to Poland. Under the name Wierzbięcin the village came to the powiat Żarski, the Polish part of the former Sorauer circle. The village was the church Niwica incorporated ( Zibelle ) and came in 1976 after the dissolution of the same to the municipality Trzebiel.

Demographics

Around 1800, were occupied in Kochendorf ten gardener places.

1910 lived 103 inhabitants in the village. By 1933, the number rose by about half to 150, then to 1939, there was a decrease to 142 inhabitants recorded.

Place name

The German name is probably due to a locator named Koch. Among the documented traditional forms, which usually differ only slightly from the last official spelling, Coxdorf stands out on a map Schenk of 1760.

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