Pszenno ' is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Świdnica

Gmina Swidnica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Gmina Świdnica is a rural gmina in Świdnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the town of Świdnica, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina....

, within Świdnica County

Swidnica County

Świdnica County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. The county covers an area of...

, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Lower Silesian Voivodeship, or Lower Silesia Province , is one of the 16 voivodeships into which Poland is currently divided. It lies in southwestern Poland...

, in south-western Poland.

It is located approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) east of Świdnica

Swidnica

Świdnica is a city in south-western Poland in the region of Silesia. It has a population of 60,317 according to 2006 figures. It lies in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, being the seventh largest town in that voivodeship. From 1975–98 it was in the former Wałbrzych Voivodeship...

, and 47 kilometres (29 mi) south-west of the regional capital Wrocław.

In 1243 the town was established in Lower Silesia

Lower Silesia

Lower Silesia ; is the northwestern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia; Upper Silesia is to the southeast.Throughout its history Lower Silesia has been under the control of the medieval Kingdom of Poland, the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy from 1526...

 with Magdeburg Law under Johann Graf von Wuerben.

Since 1645, the Evangelical inhabitants of the town belonged to the Friedenskirche (Churches of Peace) in nearby Schweidnitz and since 1741 to the (county) Landkreis Schweidnitz. Until 1773 the Catholics belonged to the Jesuit Church of Schweidnitz.

In 1874 the Weizenrodau Standesamtregister (civil registrary) was established.

The German name Weizenrodau literally means wheat

Wheat

Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize and rice...

 uprooting. The ancestors of the Watzenrode family of Prussia based their family name on the town since this is where they originated.

A sugar

Sugar beet

Sugar beet, a cultivated plant of Beta vulgaris, is a plant whose tuber contains a high concentration of sucrose. It is grown commercially for sugar production. Sugar beets and other B...

 factory was established at Weizenrodau early in the 19th century.

After 1945 Weizenrodau was renamed to Pszenno.

Famous residents

• Watzenrode Family went from Weizenrodau to Thorn (Toruń) in Prussia in the 1350s.
• Weigand Sachenkirch +1582 was pastor of Weizenrodau
• birth place of Copernicus mother

External links

• A 17th century Map of Silesia (Wissenroda) north of Schweidnitz
• A very detailed 1883 German Aerial Map of Weizenrodau and surrounding towns etc from the Prussian Government with later updates and stamps of Polish take-over administration after 1945