Brzeg Dolny

Brzeg Dolny is a city in Wolow County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south western Poland. It is placed 31 km North West of Wroclaw on the Oder River, and is the site of a big chemical plant complex, PCC Rokita SA. As of 2006, the city's population changed into 12,786. Brzeg Dolny changed into first noted in a 1353 deed as part of the Duchy of Wroclaw then within the Lands of the Bohemian Crown. In 1660, it turned into bought by using the German chancellor Baron George Abraham von Dyhrn 1620 to 1671 of the Dyhrn own family. In 1663, it formally acquired the call Dyhernfurth after the Dyhrn circle of relatives and was granted metropolis privileges by means of Emperor Leopold I of Habsburg.

The baron made efforts to extend the new town, establishing a Catholic faculty for boys and building a chapel under the patronage of St. Hedwig. The year 1668 saw the status quo of a printing house and the construction of a wooden pipe to attract water at once from the river into town. In 1742, after the First Silesian War, the duchy have become a part of Prussia and remained in Prusso German possession till 1945.