ZÅ‚otnik

Zlotnik ( German Rein forest ) is a town in western Poland. It belongs to the rural community Zary ( German Sorau ) in Żarski powiat, Lubusz Voivodeship.

By 1945, the place was in the district Sorau (Lausitz ) in the Prussian province of Brandenburg. The range of Niederschlesisch - Märkischen Railway ( NME ), which connected Berlin with Wroclaw, led by clean wood. On their route are also the cities of Frankfurt (Oder), Guben, Sagan and Liegnitz.

At the end of the Second World War, the most Reinswalder fled from the advancing front. The decisions of the Potsdam Agreement, the area was placed under Polish administration and returning after the war inhabitants had to place in the summer of 1945 left.

Many of the displaced found about your contacts within the Old Lutheran congregation a new home in the North Hessian Balhorn. The resulting settlement there Distelberg was built by displaced people.