Żary (German: Sorau) is a town in western Poland with 40,900 inhabitants (1995). Situated in the Lubusz Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Zielona Gora Voivodship (1975-1998). Lubusz voivodship since 1999 The Lubusz Voivodship (in Polish województwo lubuskie) is an administrative and local government region or voivodship in the western part of Poland. ... Zielona Góra Voivodship (Polish: województwo zielonogórskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Lubusz Voivodship. ...
One of the oldest towns in Lower Lusatia, Sorau contains a number of ancient buildings, among which the most prominent are several of the churches (one dating from 1204), the town hall, built in 1260, and the old palace of 1207 (now a prison).
Sorau is said to have existed in 840, and to have belonged to the abbey of Fulda till the 12th century.
With the surrounding district, known as the barony of Sorau, it became the seat of successive noble families; and in 1400 it was united with the barony of Triebel.
Sorau war aber nie eine landesunmittelbare Stadt, sondern befand sich immer im Besitz mächtiger Adelsgeschlechter, zuerst den Herren von Dewin, dann derer von Bieberstein und seit 1559 waren die Herren bzw.
Mit der Niederlausitz gelangte Sorau 1635 unter sächsische Herrschaft, unter der es bis 1815 verblieb.
Jahrhundert wurde Sorau ein bedeutender Standort der Textilindustrie.
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