Konary | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Lower Silesian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Wołów |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Wińsko |
Coordinates: | 51.4122°N 16.5578°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Established Date: | 1202 |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | DWL |
Blank Name Sec2: | Voivodeship road |
Konary is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wińsko, within Wołów County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.
It lies approximately 8km (05miles) south-west of Wińsko, 10km (10miles) north-west of Wołów, and 47km (29miles) north-west of the regional capital Wrocław.
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).