Dębowa Łęka | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Lubusz |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Wschowa |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Wschowa |
Coordinates: | 51.8167°N 39°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Blank Name: | Climate |
Blank Info: | Dfb |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | FWS |
Blank Name Sec2: | National road |
Dębowa Łęka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wschowa, within Wschowa County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland.[1] It lies approximately 7km (04miles) east of Wschowa and 620NaN0 east of Zielona Góra. It is part of the historic region of Greater Poland.
thumb|left|Gothic churchDębowa Łęka was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Wschowa County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2] It was the seat of the Dębołęcki family of Prawdzic coat of arms.[3] In the 16th century it passed to the Ossowski family.[3]
It was annexed by Prussia in the Second Partition of Poland in 1793. Following the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, and after the duchy's dissolution it was re-annexed by Prussia in 1815, officially under the Germanized name Geyersdorf. From 1871 it was also part of Germany. During World War II, it was the first settlement of pre-war Germany to be occupied by enemy forces, in conjunction with the Raid on Fraustadt (Wschowa) on 2 September 1939; Polish forces withdrew a few days later after the situation became untenable. After Germany's defeat in the war, in 1945, the village became again part of Poland and its historic[3] name Dębowa Łęka was restored.
Landmarks of Dębowa Łęka are the Gothic Saint Jadwiga church and the Brodowski Palace.