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Wielen
Wielen is a small village in the district of Grafschaft Bentheim in Lower Saxony, Germany, and belongs to the Joint Community (''Samtgemeinde'') of Uelsen. Wielen has 614 inhabitants. Within the village is found the Lower County’s oldest maintained school, ''het Schöltien''. Constituent communities Along with the namesake ''Ortsteil A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, community, larger than a hamlet (place), hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population t ...'', there are outlying centres named Balderhaar, Striepe and Vennebrügge. References External linksWielen {{authority control County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wieleń
Wieleń (german: Filehne) is a town in Czarnków-Trzcianka County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland. It is situated on the river Noteć. History Part of Poland since the Middle Ages, Duke Władysław Odonic of Greater Poland brought the Cistercians to Wieleń in 1239. Wieleń was a private town of Polish nobility, including the Czarnkowski and Sapieha families, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown. Zofia Czarnkowska erected the early Baroque Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and a hospital in Wieleń, and Piotr Paweł Sapieha built a Baroque palace. As a result of the First Partition of Poland, in 1772 it was annexed by Prussia, under the Germanized name ''Filehne''. In 1807, it was regained by Poles and included in the newly established Duchy of Warsaw. After its dissolution in 1815, it was re-annexed by Prussia, and from 1871 to 1919 it was also part of Germany. Until 1919, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
