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The beginnings of Bielszowice are not
known, the settlement had probably been in the place already at the turn of
the 13th century. The place takes its name either from Bielcza, the stream
known nowadays as Kochłówka (Potok Bielszowicki), or from bleaching linen in
the meadows by the stream. The first documented mention of the district
comes from 1472 and names the owner of the village, Maciej Bielczowicki the
Elder. In 1620, the area of Bielszowice contained three manors. This was due
to the fact that at the time there were three owners of the settlement:
Jerzy Rajski, Jerzy Bielczowski and Małgorzata Przyszowska. In 1689,
Bielszowice became the property of the Rogowski family of Rogoźnik, and
towards the end of the 17th century it came under the rule of Wacław Leopold
Rajski. Then, half of the estate was purchased by Wilhelm Sobek around the
year 1700. The owner of Bielszowice changed again in the middle of the 18th
century, when the place was bought by Baron Jarosław Foglar, the owner of
Paniówki and Chudów. As part of the Prussian Colonisation, in 1774 the
colonies of Kończyce and Pawłów Górny, and in 1777 that of Pawłów Dolny,
were established in the area of Bielszowice. In the 18th century,
Bielszowice was owned by the families of Wilczek and Bobrowski. In the 19th
century, it was under the rule of, in turn, the Blanowski family, Aleksander
de Bally, Herman Robert de Brase, and since 1854 of Count Hugo Henkel von
Donnersmarck. Its next owner was Samuel Hoffman, who kept Bielszowice until
1873 and then sold the grounds to the Kramsta family. Subsequently, it was
purchased by Rudolf Pringsheim, the owner of horsecars, and in 1891 it was
taken over by the Prussian Treasury. In 1922, Bielszowice passed under the
wings of the State Treasury of the resurgent Polish state. In 1951, it was
incorporated into Nowy Bytom and finally in 1959 into the city of Ruda
Śląska.
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Projekty dofinansowane ze środków zewnętrznych |
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