Iłowa - Iłowa

Iłowa(German: Half building) is a city in the voivodeship Lebus at the Tschirn in Poland. The place lies in the border area of ​​the historical regions Lausitz and Lower Silesia in the Lower Silesian Heath and is particularly known for its castle with the attached castle park.

background

In 1356 the brothers received from Kottwitz the half village on the Czirne from Kaiser Charles IV as a fiefdom; they owned semi-buildings until 1567. 1440 destroyed the city Gorlitz a castle belonging to the von Kottwitz family because it had turned out to be a robbery. In 1570 Christoph von Schellendorf bought the manor. In 1626, Christoph Freiherr von Schellendorf had the manor house rebuilt. The majority of the place was in the Upper Lusatia and thus left in 1635 Bohemia to the Electorate of Saxony above. Count Balthasar acquired it in 1682 from Promnitz the possession.

The iron hammer mentioned in 1459 halfway was due to the Kleine Tschirne and was part of the Duchy of Sagan. In 1668 a Protestant border church was built. On May 17, 1679, the Upper Lusatian part was given by the Elector Johann Georg II. City law. In 1804 the church in Kunau (Konin Żagański) was consecrated and became an independent parish. In 1815, Halbau fell to Prussia and became part of the Sagan district (Żagań), from 1932 to the district of Sprottau (Szprotawa) in the Province of Lower Silesia.

The extended manor Halbau, which included many villages, belonged to the castle. The widow of a Count Promnitz who died in 1744 married Friedrich August von Kospoth, whereby the castle and property came to this family. The widow of Erdmann Graf von Kospoth, who died in 1861, sold the estate to Conrad Freiherr in 1862 from the horizontal bar. In 1830, Halbau lost its town charter and was henceforth a market town. Glass factories and textile factories were located in Halbau. Due to the lawn iron ore deposits, there were also many smaller ironworks and hammers in the area, as well as those Zeipauer Dachsteinwerke.

In 1825 1000 inhabitants lived here, spread over the manor Halbau, Oberlausitzisch Halbau and Schlesisch-Halbau. In 1905 there were 1500 and in 1939 3480 inhabitants. On March 1, 1936, the place Zehrasche (Dolany), in which 125 people lived in 1925, was incorporated into Halbau. During the Second World War, a sub-camp of the Groß-Rosen concentration camp built.^[1][2]

In 1957 Iłowa was elevated to an urban settlement (osiedle) and in 1962 the place was regained city rights.

getting there

The place is south of Żary and Żagań and has a direct connection to the motorway A18. The train station is on the western edge of the town 51.50215.18831 Iłowa Żagańska. The trains go north to Żary and further after Zielona Góra and in a southerly direction to Węgliniec and Zgorzelec.

Tourist Attractions

• 51.50138915.19751  Halbau Castle (Pałac), Ogrodowa. .Baroque palace with a beautiful palace garden. The first thing there was probably a residential tower. Christian von Schellendorf had a palace built there in 1626. If it was originally built in the late Renaissance style, it was left by the barons of Promnitz Baroque style in 1712 and expanded eight years later. Frequent changes of ownership followed. Friedrich Maximilian of Hochberg had it rebuilt and added. The facade can now be assigned to the neo-baroque style.last change: not specified
• 51.50052815.2033062  Christ the King Church (Kościół Chrystusa Króla w Iłowej), Kościelna 4, 68-120 Iłowa. .last change: Dec. 2020
• 51.505315.20253  Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Kościół Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa w Iłowej) last change: Dec. 2020

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  City library and gate to the castle park

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  Christ the King Church

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  Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

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  city ​​Park

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  Tschirne in the Lower Silesian Heath

activities

The castle park invites you to take a stroll. To the east and south-east of the village there is an extensive forest area, which you can walk or explore by bike. This, however, exhausts the offer. A leisure pool can be found in Żary.

shop

The shopping possibilities are exhausted with a few simple supermarkets. ATMs can be found on the small central Freiheitsplatz (Plac Wolności).

kitchen

The place has two small pizzerias in the center. There is a rest stop at the motorway exit.

nightlife

There is practically no night life. The next bars are in the towns to the north Żary and Żagań to find.

accommodation

• 51.5004615.1901191  Rezydencja Janków, Kolejowa 15, 68-120 Iłowa. Tel.: 48 68 360 03 31, 48 68 360 03 32, Fax: 48 68 360 03 33, Email: [email protected]..Price: 100-130 zł / 150-170 zł / 170-190 zł / 250-320 zł (single / double / 3p / app).last change: Dec. 2020
• There are also rooms in a hotel on the service area at the motorway exit.

trips

• 51.61666666666715.3166666666671 Żagań(Sagan) with the Wallenstein Palace is 17 kilometers northeast of the city. The memorial and the museum are located on the access road on the right before the city StalagLuft 3. The same distance further east is the small town 51.564271115.53588712 Szprotawa(Sprottau) with a number of churches.
• Further north of Żagań lies 51.93972222222215.5053 Zielona Góra(Grünberg). It is the seat of government of the Lubusz Voivodeship and is widely known for the largest wine festival in Poland (Winobranie). It takes place every September. The city is about 63 kilometers northeast. A little more than halfway through the city 51.7985615.23524 Nowogród Bobrzański(Naumburg am Bober)
• The city is to the north 51.63333333333315.1333333333335 Żary (Sorau) (23 km) with the baroque ruins of the Dewiner Castle and the Promnitzer Palace and other buildings worth seeing. South of the city you can visit the Sorau Forest Hike extensively. A vantage point lets you see as far as the Schneekoppe in good weather.
• If you drive 22 kilometers further, you will cross 51.75138888888915.01756 Jasień(Alleys) and finally reaches the small town 51.78766414.9723837 Lubsko(Summer field) with a small old town with historical buildings. 51.78706414.7752388 Brody(Gates) is located 15 kilometers west of Lubsko on the road towards Forst (Lausitz). In the small village are the ruins of the Rococo style Castle gates, the former residence of Count Brühl, the restoration of which began in 2013. The outbuildings have already been restored.
• The two German-Polish border towns are located 51.54972222222214.729 Bad Muskau and 51.53333333333314.73333333333310 Łęknica 38 km to the west and share the famous Muskauer Park with Bad Muskau Castle. In the area, in the Muskau fold arch(Łuk Mużakowa), one can undertake geologically interesting hikes and explorations, just west of Bad Muskau is the Rhododendron Park Kromlau.
• The two border towns can be found 50 km to the south 51.15277777777814.98722222222211 Gorlitz and 51.1527777777781512 Zgorzelec. Görlitz is the easternmost city in Germany and offers an old town that is well worth seeing.
• 51.26666666666715.56666666666713 Bolesławiec(Bunzlau) is 47 km southeast of the Bóbr. It is known nationwide for its Bunzlau ceramics and has a lovely old town.

literature

• Arne Franke (Ed.): A short cultural history of the Silesian castles; Vol.1. Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 2015, P. 231.

Web links

• http://www.ilowa.pl - Iłowa Official Website

Individual evidence