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The Duchy of Pless (or the Duchy of Pszczyna, [1] German: Herzogtum Pleß, Polish: Księstwo Pszczyńskie) was a Duchy of Silesia, with its capital at Pless (present-day Pszczyna, Poland). History [ edit ]
Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Pless (1783–1841) August Kiß (1802–1865), sculptor; Wilhelm Engerth (1814–1884), architect; Max Friedländer (1829–1872), Jewish journalist who founded the Viennese newspaper the Neue Freie Presse; Hans Heinrich XV (1861–1938), Prince of Pless and local businessman; Karl Hoefer (1862–1939), Prussian general
Duchy of Prudnik (Prudnícké knížectví, Księstwo Prudnickie, Herzogtum Prudnik) Duchy of Pless (Pštinské knížectví, Księstwo Pszczyńskie, Herzogtum Pless) Duchy of Racibórz (Ratibořské knížectví, Księstwo Raciborskie, Herzogtum Ratibor) Duchy of Racibórz and Opava (Ducatus Ratiboria et Oppaviensis)
Coat of arms of Anhalt-Köthen-Pless. In 1765, Frederick Erdmann, the youngest son of Prince Augustus Louis, had received the Silesian state country in the former Duchy of Pless from the hands of his maternal uncle, Count John Erdmann of Promnitz. From that time on, he styled himself as Prince of Anhalt-Köthen-Pless.
At the age of 22 Hans Heinrich XV, the son of a duke (Herzog von Pless) received from Emperor Wilhelm I a lower princely title and officially became the Fürst von Pless (Prince of Pless). In the years 1881–1882 he served in the German Imperial Army, first as a volunteer in the Royal Hussar regiment and later the Guard Hussars. After two ...
In its history the castle was a residence of Polish, incl. Silesian, Piast dukes, then the German von Promnitz noble clan (mid-16th to mid-18th centuries) and later the German von Pless family. The castle became owned by the state after the death of the last Prince of Pless, Hans Heinrich XV in 1936.
Silesia (Śląsk) and other historical lands of Poland against the background of modern administrative borders (names in Polish)The names of Silesia in different languages most likely share their etymology—Polish: Śląsk ⓘ; German: Schlesien [ˈʃleːzi̯ən] ⓘ; Czech: Slezsko; Lower Silesian: Schläsing; Silesian: Ślōnsk; Lower Sorbian: Šlazyńska [ˈʃlazɨnʲska]; Upper Sorbian ...
History [ edit ] The noble family first appeared in the Duchy of Pless (Pszczyna) in Upper Silesia , when one Estepan de Woszyczyki, probably from Woszczyce ( German : Woschtitz ) near Orzesze , on 17 March 1377 obtained the office of a Schultheiß reeve in Lędziny from the Přemyslid duke John of Opava .