Siedlisko (german: Carolath) is a village on the Oder river in

Nowa Sól County __NOTOC__ Nowa Sól County ( pl, powiat nowosolski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lubusz Voivodeship, western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government refor ...

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, in western

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. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Siedlisko. It lies approximately south-east of

Nowa Sól Nowa Sól is a city on the Oder River in Lubusz Voivodeship, western Poland. It is the capital of Nowa Sól County and had a population of 38,763 (2019). History The first settlement in the region of modern Nowa Sól dates to the 14th century, w ...

and south-east of

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. The castle of ''Sedlischo'' was first mentioned in a 1298 deed, when the Silesian duke Henry III of Głogów acquired it from the castellans at Bytom Odrzański. After the

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had become a

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fief in 1331, it was seized by the royal

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, who enfeoffed several noble families with Siedlisko. In 1561 the lordship passed to Fabian von Schoenaich, whose nephew Georg had the

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Carolath Castle built and received the title of a ''

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'' (Baron) from Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg. In 1697 the Schoenaich possessions around Carolath and Bytom Odrzański were raised to the status of a Bohemian state country by decree of Emperor

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The Schoenaichs retained their estates even after the annexation of Silesia by King Frederick II of Prussia in 1742. Freiherr Hans Carl, a devoted

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, immediately paid homage to the new ruler and in turn received the title of a Prince of Carolath-Beuthen. The castle burnt down after the

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had occupied the area at the end of

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. A Renaissance gate building and a mausoleum designed by

Hans Poelzig Hans Poelzig (30 April 1869 – 14 June 1936) was a German architect, painter and set designer. Life Poelzig was born in Berlin in 1869 to Countess Clara Henrietta Maria Poelzig while she was married to George Acland Ames, an Englishman. Uncerta ...

in 1912 are preserved.

Notable people

* Georg von Schoenaich (1557–1619), German humanist * Hans Carl zu Carolath-Beuthen (1688–1763), German nobleman * Johann Carl Friedrich zu Carolath-Beuthen (1716–1791), German nobleman and prussian general * Ignaz Aurelius Fessler (1756-1839), Hungarian cleric, stayed at Carolath as an educator 1790/91 *

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(11 December 1888 – 1 February 1943), German general *

Georg August Pritzel Georg August Pritzel (2 September 1815, Carolath – 14 June 1874) was a German librarian and botanical writer. He studied in Breslau, graduating with a dissertation titled ''Anemonarum revisio''. In 1851 he began work as a ''Hülfsarbeiter'' at ...

(1815 – 1874), German librarian

References

{{Authority control Villages in Nowa Sól County