Wojciechowice, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Wojciechowice ( German Königshain ) is a village in the powiat Kłodzki in Lower Silesia in Poland. It is located about four kilometers northeast of Kłodzko ( Glatz ), whose rural community it belongs to.
Geography
Wojciechowice stretches four kilometers on a road that Glatz in the valley of Königshainer creek ( Jodłownik ) in a northeasterly direction to the top of the pass the Bardo Mountains ( Gory Bardzkie ) leads. Neighboring towns are Boguszyn the northwest, Podzamek to the southeast, and the desert Jaszkówka Joswików ( Josephstal ) in the south and Kłodzko in the southwest. East of the village is the end of the 751 m high mountain Ostra Góra ( Königshainer Spitzberg ).
History
Königshain was founded in 1324 and was one of the first to the Glatzer country with which it shared the story of his political and religious affiliation. The first mention of the parish church of St. Michael was 1360th During the time of the Reformation Catholicism in Königshain has asserted initially on. According to a survey of deans Glatzer David Fechtner appeared on May 20, 1577 in Königshainer parish still a Catholic priest. Later, the St. Michael's Church served as a Lutheran church. After the county of Glatz had been recaptured by the military actions in 1622 by the imperial troops, the church was again assigned to the Catholics. Because of the prevailing shortage of Catholic priests supplied the parish Königshain together with the parishes Rengersdorf and Eisersdorf the then dean of the County of Glatz, Jerome Keck.
At the beginning of the 1750s was Andrew Faulhaber Kaplan in Königshain. After the Silesian Wars Königshain came together 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 from 1816 to 1945 the county Glatz incorporated. 1939 counted 903 inhabitants. As a result of the Second World War, it fell in 1945 as almost all of Silesia to Poland and was renamed Wojciechowice. The German population was expelled. The new inhabitants were partly displaced persons from eastern Poland. 1975-1998 belonged to Wojciechowice Voivodeship Wałbrzych.
Attractions
- The Catholic parish church of St. Michael in 1360 mentioned ( kościół Michała Archanioła ) was rebuilt in the 15th century as a Gothic hall church, and rebuilt about 1730. The tower with octagonal spire was built in the late 19th century. The interior is neo-Gothic.
- The parsonage from the first half of the 18th century was rebuilt in the 19th century.
- The small pilgrimage church " Maria Trost " ( Wzgórze Marii ) on the western edge of the village on Spittelberg was built in 1715. The complex includes a Marian column and Stations of the Cross.
- About a kilometer south of Königshain its destination restaurant, " Schronisko Kukułka " is (Schneider Baude ) with great views.