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Wolów county (Poland)

Powiat Wo³owski, Dolnoslaskie vojvodship

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[Wolów county flag] image by Chrystian Kretowicz, 16 Jan 2009
adopted 5 Oct 1999; design: Michal Marciniak-Korzuchowski Other Wolów county pages: See also:

Wolów county

Wo³ów County, Dolnoĥlħskie Voivodship - German name: Wohlau.
Wo³ów County (Polish: powiat wo³owski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat - county) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999 as a result of the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998. The county covers an area of 675 square kilometres (261 sq mi).
Its administrative seat is the town of Wo³ów, although the county also contains the slightly larger town of Brzeg Dolny.
Area: 675 sq.km (182 sq.mi); Population: 47,445 (2006)

In the village of Konary there is a monument honoring the German (Prussian) chemist, physicist and biologist - Franz Karl Achard who discovered the means of production of sugar from sugar beets (among other things) ending the status of sugar as a luxury product and making it rapidly available for everyone.
The English merchants offered him 200,000 talers to declare his experiments a failure but he refused and, with the help of King Friedrich Wilhelm II, opened the first sugar beet refinery in Konary in 1801. (favorite artists: The Archies)

Arms and flag adopted on October 5, 1999 (resolution # XI/82/99).
The designer of the county's symbols was Mr.Michal Marciniak-Korzuchowski.
Included are Arms and the ceremonial and civic flags.
Chrystian Kretowicz, 16 Jan 2009

Wolów county ceremonial flag

[Wolów cere,omial flag] image by Chrystian Kretowicz, 16 Jan 2009
adopted 5 Oct 1999; design: Michal Marciniak-Korzuchowski

Wolów county CoA

[Wolów cere,omial flag] image by Chrystian Kretowicz, 16 Jan 2009
adopted 5 Oct 1999; design: Michal Marciniak-Korzuchowski