Ręszów

Infobox Settlement
name = Ręszów
settlement_type = Village
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Lower Silesian
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Lubin
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Ścinawa
latd = 51
latm = 24
lats =
latNS = N
longd = 16
longm = 22
longs =
longEW = E
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population_total = 290
website = http://www.reszow.scinawa.eu

Ręszów ( _de. Ransen) is a village in the municipality of Gmina Ścinawa, within Lubin County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Ręszów lies approximately convert|4|km|mi|0 west of Ścinawa, convert|12|km|mi|0 east of Lubin, and convert|60|km|mi|0 north-west of the regional capital Wrocław. Between 1975 and 1998 Ręszów was under the administration of the Legnica Voivodeship. In 2006 Ręszów's population was documented at 290 inhabitants. Presently, the village administrator (sołtys) is Dorota Marcjan.

History

The earliest documented reference to Ręszów, then known by its German name "Ransen", dates back to 1209. The village church was first constructed in 1376 and underwent several renovations during the 19th century. Between 1541 and 1715, Ręszów was home to the von Nostitz royal family. The former von Nostitz palace which was modernized in 1912 and then later during the 1930s by Heinrich Oswald von Sprenger now serves as a local housing complex. Following the Potsdam Conference in 1945, Ręszów was incorporated into the Third Polish Republic. During communist rule, a State Agricultural Farm (PGR) was operated in Ręszów.

German WWI Monument

In the central part of Ręszów stands a historic monument commemorating village residents who died fighting in WWI. Initually built in 1922 by Germans, the monument underwent a full restoration by the Poles in 2003 and was unvailed during a ceremony which featured Polish and German government officials as well as Rudolf Zugehor, a former ethnic German resident.