Bolesławiec poviat - poviat in Poland, in Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, created in 1999 as part of an administrative reform. His seat is Bolesławiec.
An administrative division
The poviat consists of:
urban communes: Bolesławiec urban-rural communes: Nowogrodziec rural communes: Bolesławiec, Gromadka, Osiecznica, Warta Bolesławiecka towns: Bolesławiec, Nowogrodziec
Neighboring poviats: Polkowicki, Legnica, Złotoryja, Lwówecki, Lubański, Zgorzelecki, belonging to the Dolnośląskie Voivodeship and Żagański, belonging to the Lubuskie Voivodeship.
Worth seeing
in Bolesławiec
outside Bolesławiec
Gościszów - Church. Our Lady of Częstochowa
One of the oldest churches in this part of Lower Silesia, a 13th-century late Romanesque building with gothic elements, rebuilt in the 17th century. Inside you can admire a gothic rib vault and a polychrome from the beginning of the 15th century with a scene of the Annunciation, interesting Renaissance furnishings (including . altar, pulpit and baptismal font) and epitaphs from the 16th-18th centuries. Next to the church, there are the remains of the castle, once considered one of the most beautiful Renaissance buildings in Lower Silesia, in progressive ruin since 1945. Kliczków - renaissance castle
The castle was one of several border strongholds built by prince Bolek I of the Raw on the south-western border of the Świdnica-Jawor Duchy at the end of the 13th century. At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, it received a Renaissance appearance, thoroughly rebuilt in 1881-1884 in an eclectic style at the request of the then owner - Count Frederick Jerzy zu Solms-Baruth, known as the "old prince". During his reign, the German emperor himself stayed in Kliczków several times. Completely destroyed after the war, the building was carefully restored in 2000-2001 and turned into a hotel and conference center. An extensive park layout was also reconstructed: Kraszowice - a power plant on the Bóbr river
Built in 1920 to a design by Georg Wolff, it is equipped with two 0.48 MW turbines. In order to dam up the water, a weir and a channel supplying water to the power plant were built. Until 1945, the Modła mill operated in parallel with the power plant - the ruins of the Bibranów castle
The castle was built by Mikołaj von Bibran in the years 1564-1567, enlarged by the Rittberg family in 1767. It has been in ruins since 1945. Next to the castle, fragments of manor buildings and the remains of a landscape park have survived. At the nearby church of Our Lady of the Rosary, there is the Rittberg family mausoleum - the largest building of this type in the county. Saint Peter and Saint Paul Church Peter and Paul in Nowogrodziec.
Late baroque from 1788-1793, has a rich interior and several valuable paintings from the second half of the 19th century. The eighteenth century. In front of the church there is an 18th-century presbytery - the birthplace of the composer Józef Ignacy Schnabel, from 1815 the cathedral bandmaster in Wrocław, called the "Silesian Haydn". Nowogrodziec - ruins of the monastery of Saint Mary Magdalene
The monastery was founded in 1217 by St. Jadwiga Śląska, and in 1247 transferred to the order of madeleines, who stayed there until 1810. In 1495 the order became the owner of the town of Nowogrodziec. The monastery was rebuilt and extended many times, incl. in the years 1726-1729 and 1788-1794. Partly damaged in 1813 and during World War II. It has been in permanent ruin since 1945.Ołdrzychów near Nowogrodziec - Polish-Saxon post office
On the road to Lubań stands the only surviving Polish-Saxon post milestone in Silesia, marked with the number 112. It was built in 1725, it is about 4 meters high. built by the von Zedlitz family, surrounded by a moat, rebuilt many times. Adjacent to the manor house is very well-preserved old farm buildings and a landscape park.