Milicz

Milicz
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Milicz
Coordinates: 51°32′N 17°17′E / 51.533°N 17.283°E / 51.533; 17.283
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Lower Silesian
County	Milicz County
Gmina	Gmina Milicz
Government
- Mayor	Paweł Wybierała
Area
- Total	13.50 km2 (5.2 sq mi)
Population (2006)
- Total	12,004
- Density	889.2/km2 (2,303/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	56-300
Car plates	DMI
Website	http://www.milicz.pl

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Milicz [ˈmilit​͡ʂ] (German: Militsch) is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of Milicz County, and of the smaller administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Milicz. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.

It lies on the Barycz river, approximately 49 kilometres (30 mi) north of the regional capital Wrocław.

As at 2006, the town has a population of 12,004.

History

Milich Castle was first mentioned in a 1136 deed by Pope Innocent II as a possession of the cathedral chapter of the Bishopric of Breslau. It received town privileges in 1245. In 1358 the bishops sold Milicz to the Piast duke Konrad I of Oels, whose successors held castle and town until in 1492 the line became extinct and the Duchy of Oels was finally seized as an expired fief by the Bohemian Crown.

St Andrew Bobola Church

In 1494 King Vladislas II of Bohemia granted Milicz to his chamberlain Sigismund Kurzbach, who installed the autonomous Silesian state country of Milicz and Żmigród (Trachenberg). The Milicz part was acquired by the Maltzan noble family in 1590.

Sights

Milicz is the site of one of the six Churches of Grace, which the Silesian Protestants were allowed to built with the permission of Emperor Joseph I of Habsburg, King of Bohemia, given at the Altranstädt Convention of 1707. The half-timbered church finished in 1714 today is dedicated to Saint Andrew Bobola.

Milicz Palace

The castle of the Dukes of Oels erected in the 14th century was destroyed in World War II. The Maltzan dynasty left a Late Baroque-Neoclassical palace erected in 1798 and an English garden, the first in Silesia.

Notable people

• Maria von Maltzan, resistance fighter, born in Milicz on March 25, 1909, died on November 12, 1997 in Berlin. The later Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Reichenau married her niece at the Milicz church in 1919.
• Hermann Wassertrilling (Hirsch Wassertrilling), rabbi, was active here in the 19th century

Twin town

Lohr, Germany, since 2001

See also

• Milicz Ponds nature reserve

Coordinates: 51°32′N 17°17′E / 51.533°N 17.283°E / 51.533; 17.283