Bożków

Bożków
Village
Palace and church in Bożków
Bożków
Coordinates: 50°31′N 16°34′E / 50.517°N 16.567°E / 50.517; 16.567Coordinates: 50°31′N 16°34′E / 50.517°N 16.567°E / 50.517; 16.567
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Lower Silesian
County	Kłodzko
Gmina	Nowa Ruda
Population	1,600

Bożków (pronounced Bosh-koof [ˈbɔʂkuf], German: Eckersdorf) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowa Ruda, within Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.^[1]

It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) south-east of Nowa Ruda, 11 kilometres (7 mi) north-west of Kłodzko, and 76 kilometres (47 mi) south-west of the regional capital Wrocław. Prior to 1945 the area was in Germany.

The village has a population of 1,600.

History of the village and the palace

The first document that mentioned village Bozkow is dated back to 1348 – it noted that Berhardt von Maltwitz was the owner of the village. During the Thirty Years' War the property was confiscated by Ferdinand II Emperor and sold or given to Kasper Jaeschke von Eisenhut, an ennobled imperial physician (1633). After his childless death, his widow gave the property to the Kłodzko Jesuits order. John George von Goetzen (b. 1626), starost of the Kłodzko county bought the estate from the order. The Count Anthony Alexander von Magnis finally bought the rights to Bożków in 1780. The property was inherited by Friedrich Wilhelm Antoni Karol Fabricius von Magnis (1786-1861), who was succeeded by his son Wilhelm Ernest Adolf (1828-1888), and then by his grandson Franciszek Wilhelm Karol (b. 1862). The property belonged to the von Magnis family until 1945.^[2]

After WWII, the Silesia became Polish and the palace became state property. It was gradually turning into a ruin, the interiors were mostly destroyed and even stolen. In 1956, a partial renovation was done. Later, the palace was housing a local school for many years. Currently, the palace is in private hands. In February 2021, it was again offered for sale.^[3]

People from Bożków[]

• Franz Xaver Gebauer (1784—1822), composer, and promoter of 'Concerts spirituels' in Vienna, born when Bożków was called Eckersdorf, in Prussian Silesia from 1742 (Treaty of Breslau) until 1804.
• Heinrich Feisthauer, political opponent of the Nazi-regime and a survivor of Sachsenhausen.
• Franz Magnis-Suseno, Jesuit, rector of the philosophical school in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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