Konary, Wołów County

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Konary
Village
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Konary
Coordinates: 51°24′44″N16°33′28″E / 51.41222°N 16.55778°E / 51.41222; 16.55778
Country Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
Voivodeship Lower Silesian
County Wołów
Gmina Wińsko
First mentioned1202
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration DWL
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Konary [kɔˈnarɨ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wińsko, within Wołów County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. [1] It lies approximately 8 km (5 mi) south-west of Wińsko, 10 km (6 mi) north-west of Wołów, and 47 km (29 mi) north-west of the regional capital Wrocław.

History

The village was first mentioned as Uconar in a document of Cyprian, bishop of Wrocław from 1202, when it was part of fragmented Piast-ruled Poland. [2] The name of the village is of Polish origin and comes either from the word konar which means "branch" or from the word koń which means "horse". [3] [4]

Under Prussian rule, the world's first factory for extracting sugar from sugar beets was opened in 1802 in Konary (then known as Kunern). [5]

References

  1. "Główny Urząd Statystyczny" [Central Statistical Office] (in Polish). Select Miejscowości (SIMC) tab, select fragment (min. 3 znaki), enter town name in the field below, click WYSZUKAJ (Search)
  2. Grünhagen, Colmar (1884). Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae (in German). Vol. 7. Josef Max & Comp. p. 68.
  3. Damrot, Konstanty (1896). Die älteren Ortsnamen Schlesiens, ihre Entstehung und Bedeutung. Mit einem Anhange über die schlesisch-polnischen Personennamen. Beiträge zur schlesischen Geschichte und Volkskunde (in German). Verlag von Felix Kasprzyk. p. 172.
  4. Adamy, Heinrich (1888). Die schlesischen Ortsnamen, ihre Entstehung und Bedeutung. Ein Bild aus der Vorzeit (in German). Verlag von Priebatsch's Buchhandlung. p. 35.
  5. Langer, R.H.M.; Hill, G.D. (1991), Agricultural Plants, Cambridge University, pp. 197–199, ISBN   0-521-40563-7