Konary,_Wołów_County

Konary, Wołów County

Konary, Wołów County

Village in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

For other places with the same name, see Konary.

Konary [kɔˈnarɨ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wińsko, within Wołów County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

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It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south-west of Wińsko, 10 kilometres (6 mi) north-west of Wołów, and 47 kilometres (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.[1] 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".[2][3]

Under Prussian rule, the world's first factory for extracting sugar from sugar beets was opened in 1802 in Konary (then known as Kunern).[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Grünhagen, Colmar (1884). Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae (in German). Vol. 7. Josef Max & Comp. p. 68.
  2. [2]
    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.
  3. [3]
    Adamy, Heinrich (1888). Die schlesischen Ortsnamen, ihre Entstehung und Bedeutung. Ein Bild aus der Vorzeit (in German). Verlag von Priebatsch's Buchhandlung. p. 35.
  4. [4]
    Langer, R.H.M.; Hill, G.D. (1991), Agricultural Plants, Cambridge University, pp. 197–199, ISBN 0-521-40563-7


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