Wołów

Wolów [ vɔwuf ] ( German Wohlau ) is a city in Poland and is part of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. Wolów is the seat of powiat Wołowski and has about 12,300 inhabitants.

Geography

The city is located north of the Oder in the west part of the Cat Mountains, 46 km north- west of Breslau, on the railway line from Wroclaw to Berlin via Rzepin.

History

Already in 1285 seems to have had the status of a city Wohlau. In 1329 it coincided with the Duchy Oels as a fief to the crown of Bohemia. From 1413 it was the seat of the Duchy Wohlau. The city's name is derived from the Polish word for bull or cow; actually the oldest surviving city seal already shows 1473 a bull, which is still to be found in the city arms today. 1526 came Wohlau with Bohemia to the Habsburgs, but remained until 1675 a residence of the Silesian Piast of Liegnitz - Brieg - Wohlau. After the First Silesian War it fell with almost all of Silesia to Prussia. The city suffered severe damage in 1945, but was rebuilt after the war and expanded.

Community

The urban and rural community Wolów includes not only the township another 37 districts ( German name until 1945) with a mayor's office:

  • Boraszyn ( Borschen )
  • Bolzano ( bushes )
  • Dębno (Schön oak)
  • Domaszków ( Dombsen )
  • Garwol ( sheaves )
  • Gliniany ( Gleinau )
  • Golina ( Heider village)
  • Gródek ( Grottky, 1937-1945 Berghain )
  • Krzydlina Mała (small Kreidel )
  • Krzydlina Wielka (Great Kreidel )
  • Lipnica ( Leipnitz )
  • Lubiąż ( Leubus )
  • Łososiowice ( Loss joke)
  • Mikorzyce ( Schönbrunn )
  • Miłcz ( Arnsdorf )
  • Moczydlnica Dworska ( Herrnmotschelnitz )
  • Mojęcice (Moon contactor)
  • Nieszkowice ( Nisgawe, 1937-1945 Niederau )
  • Pawłoszewo ( Pavelschöwe ​​, 1937-1945 Paulshöhe )
  • Pełczyn ( Polgsen )
  • Piotroniowice ( Petranowitz, 1937-1945 Iseritztal )
  • Prawików ( Praukau )
  • Proszkowa ( Prosgawe, 1937-1945 Grafstein )
  • Rataje ( Rathau )
  • Rudno ( Reudchen )
  • Siodłkowice ( Schilkowitz, 1937-1945 Simonshöh )
  • Sławowice ( Schlanowitz, 1937-1945 Föhrenwalde )
  • Wolów Stary ( Old Wohlau )
  • Stęszów ( Stan 's )
  • Stobno ( bars )
  • Straszowice ( Niegsen )
  • Tarchalice ( Tarxdorf )
  • Uskorz Maly ( Small Ausker )
  • Uskorz Wielki (Great Ausker )
  • Warzęgowo ( Wersingawe, 1937-1945 Hohenau )
  • Wrzosy ( Heath Vorwerk )
  • Zagórzyce ( Sagritz, 1937-1945 birch grove )

Other villages in the municipality without mayor's office are: Biskupice ( Bischofsau ) Kąty (edges), Kłopotówka, Kretowice (Monk Furth ), Łazarzowice ( Lahserwitz ) - Pierusza (Peru 's ), Smarków, STRAZA, Wodnica ( Wilhelm Thal ), Wróblewo ( Wilhelm Thal ) and Żychlin ( Zychline ).

Twinning

  • Buchholz in der Heide Nord, Germany
  • Hilden, Germany
  • Canteleu, France

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Maria Cunitz (1610-1664), astronomer
  • Christian Knorr von Rose Roth (1636-1689), poet, writer and composer
  • Heinz Hübner (1914-2006), German jurist
  • Oskar Müller (1896-1970), German politician ( KPD), MP, Hessian State Minister for Labour and Welfare
  • Friedrich thinking (* 1942), German teacher and writer
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