Sycow
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
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Sycow is a metropolis in Olesnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district known as Gmina Sycow. It lies approximately 27 kilometres north-east of Olesnica, and 47 kilometres north-east of the nearby capital Wrocław. The settlement of Syczow or Wartinbergk within the Duchy of Silesia changed into first cited in the past due 12th century deed issued by way of the Bishop of Wroclaw.
A castellan at Wrathenberc at the exchange course to Kalisz in Greater Poland is documented about 1276. Then part of the Duchy of Legnica, it changed into won by way of Duke Henry III of Glogow in 1291 and inherited with the aid of Duke Konrad I of Olesnica in 1321, a vassal of King John of Bohemia from 1329. The town turned into given Magdeburg rights in 1369.
When the Oels department of the Silesian Piasts have become extinct in 1492, the Bohemian king Vladislas II seized the duchy as a reverted fief and installed the country country of Wartenberg enfeoffed to the Haugwitz noble own family. In 1734 it become acquired via Ernst Johann von Biron, whose descendants held Wartenberg even after the Prussian annexation of Silesia in 1742, until they had been expelled in 1945.
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