Jaworski poviat - poviat in Poland, in Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, created in 1999 as part of an administrative reform. His seat is Sycamore.
Coat of arms of the Jawor poviat
An administrative division
The poviat consists of:
urban communes: Jawor urban-rural communes: Bolków rural communes: Męcinka, Mściwojów, Paszowice, Wądroże Wielkie towns: Jawor, Bolków
Neighboring counties
Złotoryja County Legnica County Średzki County Świdnik County Wałbrzych County Kamienna Góra County Jelenia Góra County
Worth seeing
in Jawor
Monuments Jawor - the Evangelical Church of Peace included in the world heritage of cultural monuments UNESCO Church of Peace - interior Town Hall Houses at ul. Chrobrego 4, 7, 14 (d.41), (from the 16th and 18th-20th centuries)
Main article: Monuments in Jawor.
According to the register of the National Heritage Institute, the following objects are entered on the list of monuments [26]:
historical center of the city parish church st. Martin - a gothic church from the 13th century to the 19th century with a magnificent mannerist portal from 1615-1617, pl. Church cemetery church parish school, currently a presbytery, from the 16th century, 19th / 20th century, ul. Marcina 1 auxiliary church. st. Barbara, ul. Lipowa 2, from the 15th century, the 18th century. st. Wojciech, formerly the Jawor synagogue, ul. Czarnieckiego, from the fourteenth century, at the end of the nineteenth century. "Peace" church complex, ul. Limanowskiego 40: the Evangelical Church of Peace, half-timbered, from 1654–1656, 1709, inscribed in 2001 on the UNESCO World Heritage List due to its great importance for culture and human heritage, the former cemetery next to the church, now the municipal "Peace Park", from the second half 17th century, 1867, 1970 pastorówka, half-timbered house, ul. Park Pokoju 2, from the mid-17th century, the monastery church of Beguines, now a Pentecostal church, ul. Żeromskiego 11, from the mid-18th century the monastery complex of oo. Bernardynów, now a museum, ul. Klasztorna 2: church. Of the Blessed Virgin Mary, from the end of the 15th century, 1520, a monastery, from the 15th century, 1820, now the Regional Museum, the parish cemetery of St. Marcin, ul. Kuziennicza, a former Jewish cemetery from the end of the 18th century, a Piast castle from the beginning of the 19th century, erected around 1224 by Radosław of Bolesławiec, recognized by some historians as the castellan of Jawor. From the mid-thirteenth century, the castle was the seat of the dukes of Jawor and later of Świdnica-Jawor. In 1392, after the death of Duchess Agnieszka, the wife of Bolek II Mały, the castle was taken over by the starosts of Czech kings. In 1490, the Czech king, Władysław Jagiellończyk, visited here, and less than 200 years later, Marysieńka Sobieska. From 1742, with the takeover of Silesia by Prussia, the castle became a forced labor facility and a prison (until 1956). The castle complex has a usable area of 6,072 square meters and a cubic capacity of 18,500 cubic meters defensive walls - city, from the 14th-15th centuries, the Angel's bastion at the parish church from 1540, the tower of the tower - the Strzegom gate, from the 14th-15th centuries. tower - the first mentions of the town hall in Jawor come from 1373 - the second half of the 19th century. In the 14th century, rebuilt and modernized many times, the present building in the Dutch Neo-Renaissance style was built in the years 1895–1897. The medieval 61-meter tower has eight statues of princes and knights at the top, placed there in the 14th century. The building houses the "Ratuszowa" Café, the Market Square, the municipal theater, from the 18th century, 1874, 1925, the Market Square, a villa with a garden, a former Masonic lodge, ul. Armii Krajowej 7, from 1869–1871, 1898 house, ul. Barbara 8, houses from the beginning of the 19th century, ul. Chopina 3, 12, houses from the 18th-20th centuries, ul. Chrobrego 4, 7, 14 (d.41), from the 16th century, from the 18th to the 20th century house, Czarnieckiego 10, from the 16th century house, ul. Kościelna 10, from 1564, 18th century, 20th century houses, ul. Legnicka No. 2 (d. 4) from 1600, 20th century; No. 12 from 1800, 20th century houses, ul. Lipowa 4 and 5, from 1800, houses from the 20th century, Rynek 3, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, house from the 16th-19th / 20th centuries, ul. Staszica 1, 4, from the 17th-20th centuries, the railway station, ul. Dworcowa, the "Jawor" sugar factory complex from the second half of the 19th century, ul. Starojaworska 104, from the end of the 19th century, 1927.
other monuments:
Monolithic stone crosses in the courtyard of the PKO BP bank [note needed],
tenement house at ul. Legnicka 3 with a portal from 1617–1619 by Johann Pol, a sculptor from Głogów [footnote needed].