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19-462: Korfantów is located in the Niemodlin Plain ( Równina Niemodlińska ), in the historical region of Silesia . The total area inside the town's boundary is 10,23 km. The former name of the settlement was Hurtlanth or Hurthland . Other documents refer to the town as: Fredland , Fredelant , Fredlandt , Fridland , Freijland , and Friedland . The locality's Polish name was based on

38-503: A Renaissance castle built around 1600, which became offices for the State Repatriation Office, then served as a high school and NCO school. See twin towns of Gmina Niemodlin . This Opole County location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Piast dynasty The House of Piast was the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland . The first documented Polish monarch

57-537: Is a town in Opole County , Opole Voivodeship , Poland , with 6,315 inhabitants (2019). The community was first mentioned as Nemodlin in a 1224 deed and received town privileges in 1283. The German place-name Falkenberg was first recorded in the year 1290. Originally a part of the Duchy of Opole , after the death of Duke Bolko I , Niemodlin became the capital of a duchy in his own right from 1313 to 1382. When

76-583: The German name, and had various forms: Ferląd , Ferlondt , Frydląd , Fyrląd , and Fryląd , officially adopted in 1945. In 1946, in the aftermath of World War II , due to the German origin of the name, the town was renamed after Wojciech Korfanty . Until 1532 the area was in the possession of Polish princes of the Silesian Piast Dynasty . Simultaneously, an influx of German settlers caused

95-606: The Holy Roman Empire . The Jagiellonian kings ruling after the death of Casimir IV of Poland were also descended in the female line from Casimir III's daughter. The early dukes and kings of Poland are said to have regarded themselves as descendants of the semi-legendary Piast the Wheelwright ( Piast Kołodziej ), first mentioned in the Cronicae et gesta ducum sive principum Polonorum (Chronicles and deeds of

114-753: The Kievan Rus' , later also the State of the Teutonic Order and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were mighty neighbours. The Piast position was decisively enfeebled by an era of fragmentation following the 1138 Testament of Bolesław III Wrymouth . For nearly 150 years, the Polish state shattered into several duchies, with the Piast duke against the formally valid principle of agnatic seniority fighting for

133-887: The Red Army 's war commissar 's rule over the locality in 1945, as well as poor political decisions. Later, the regime of the Polish People's Republic caused much impoverishment and financial instability, therefore, it was not until the reintroduction of the free market in 1989 that economic growth began to return. As of 2015, 52% of the Gmina Korfantów populace lives off the agricultural sector. See twin towns of Gmina Korfantów . Niemodlin Niemodlin ( Polish: [ɲɛˈmɔdlin] ; Silesian : Ńymodlin ; German : Falkenberg in Oberschlesien )

152-705: The 14th century were vassals of the Bohemian Crown . After the Polish royal line and Piast junior branch had died out in 1370, the Polish crown fell to the Anjou king Louis I of Hungary , son of late King Casimir's sister Elizabeth Piast . The Masovian branch of the Piasts became extinct with the death of Duke Janusz III in 1526. The last ruling duke of the Silesian Piasts was George William of Legnica who died in 1675. His uncle Count August of Legnica ,

171-607: The 18th century, Falkenberg belonged to the tax inspection region of Neustadt . In 1871, with the Prussian-led Unification of Germany , the town became part of the German Empire . After Germany's defeat in World War I , it was placed under Weimar administration. After World War II in 1945, it was placed under Polish administration. The estate's final owner, Count Frederick Leopold von Praschma, left

190-858: The Opole line of the Piast dynasty became extinct in 1532, various noble families like the Hohenzollern , the House of Zierotin , and the Prazma (German, Praschma ) held the estate (also known as Falkenberg ) until the 1940s. The town of Falkenberg, after the First Silesian War in 1742, had become part of Prussia and was the capital of the Falkenberg district in the Province of Silesia . In

209-470: The dukes or princes of the Poles), written c. 1113 by Gallus Anonymus . However, the term "Piast Dynasty" was not applied until the 17th century. In a historical work, the expression Piast dynasty was introduced by the Polish historian Adam Naruszewicz ; it is not documented in contemporary sources. The first "Piasts", probably of Polan descent, appeared around 940 in the territory of Greater Poland at

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228-675: The expansionist policies of the Holy Roman Empire in the west, resulting in a chequered co-existence, with Piast rulers like Mieszko I, Casimir I the Restorer or Władysław I Herman trying to protect the Polish state by treaties, oath of allegiances and marriage alliances with the Imperial Ottonian and Salian dynasties. The Bohemian Přemyslid dynasty , the Hungarian Arpads and their Anjou successors,

247-534: The last male Piast, died in 1679. The last legitimate heir, Duchess Karolina of Legnica-Brieg died in 1707 and is buried in Trzebnica Abbey . Nevertheless, numerous families, like the illegitimate descendants of the Silesian duke Adam Wenceslaus of Cieszyn (1574–1617), link their genealogy to the dynasty. About 1295, Przemysł II used a coat of arms with a white eagle – a symbol later referred to as

266-652: The stronghold of Giecz . Shortly afterwards they relocated their residence to Gniezno , where Prince Mieszko I ruled over the Civitas Schinesghe from about 960. The Piasts temporarily also ruled over Pomerania , Bohemia and the Lusatias , as well as part of Ruthenia , and the Hungarian Spiš region in present-day Slovakia . The ruler bore the title of a duke or a king , depending on their position of power. The Polish monarchy had to deal with

285-679: The throne at Kraków , the capital of the Lesser Polish Seniorate Province . Numerous dukes like Mieszko III the Old , Władysław III Spindleshanks or Leszek I the White were crowned, only to be overthrown shortly afterwards, and others restored and ousted, at times repeatedly. The senior branch of the Silesian Piasts, descendants of Bolesław III Wrymouth 's eldest son Duke Władysław II the Exile , went separate ways and since

304-673: The town to develop; it became the property of wealthy German and Silesian nobles. In 1632, the Swedes plundered Friedland and surrounding villages during the Thirty Years' War . Over the next decades the town also suffered due to plagues and fires. At that time, Friedland was part of the Kingdom of Bohemia within the Habsburg monarchy . In 1645 it returned to Poland under the House of Vasa , and in 1666 it fell to Bohemia again, however, it

323-578: Was Duke Mieszko I ( c.  960 –992). The Piasts' royal rule in Poland ended in 1370 with the death of King Casimir III the Great . Branches of the Piast dynasty continued to rule in the Duchy of Masovia (until 1526) and in the Duchies of Silesia until the last male Silesian Piast died in 1675. The Piasts intermarried with several noble lines of Europe, and possessed numerous titles, some within

342-552: Was based in the town in 1942–1943. A mass grave of its prisoners is located at the local parish cemetery. In the interwar period , there were 152 registered businesses in Korfantów, namely in the services , trade and food production sectors. After World War II , the town lost its former importance as the agricultural centre in the Nysa County . This was largely the effect of war losses , requisitioning , plunder and

361-581: Was ceded to Prussia after Frederick II the Great emerged victorious in the mid-18th century Silesian Wars . In the 19th century, despite Prussian and German rule, Catholic services were still held in Polish alongside German. It was part of Germany from 1871 until the end of World War II in 1945, when, under the Potsdam Agreement , it was reassigned to Poland. During World War II , the Polenlager 85 Nazi German concentration camp for Poles

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