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3 unusual facts about Jelenia Góra


Deer Hill

Jelenia Góra (Deer Hill in Polish), a town in Lower Silesia Voivodeship, Poland

Maja Włoszczowska

Since 2009 Maja Włoszczowska has lent her name to a cross country race in her home town of Jelenia Góra, called Jelenia Góra Trophy Maja Włoszczowska MTB Race.

Stanisław Zaczyk

From 1946 through 1950, he performed on stages in Jelenia Góra and Wrocław.


Bundesstraße 6

The former Reichsstraße 6 ran from Görlitz via Hirschberg and Schweidnitz to Breslau and from there via Oelsas far as the old Polish border near Groß Wartenberg.

Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen

Feodora Reuss spent her last years at the Sanatorium Buchwald-Hohenwiese, Kowary, near Hirschberg, Silesia; the hospital being close to the home she had made with her husband at nearby Schloss Neuhoff.

Sandra Lewandowska

A native of the city of Jelenia Góra, then the seat of Jelenia Góra Voivodeship and, since 1999, part of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Sandra Magdalena Lewandowska studied "enterprise management" at the Regional and Tourist Economy Department of Wrocław University of Economics, graduating in 2002 with a major in business operations.

Ślężanie

A long fortified wall, strengthened by numerous moats, stretched from the present day town of Jelenia Góra to Krosno, and along both sides of the Bobr river.

Turów Coal Mine

Situated 55 km west of Jelenia Góra, 80 km east of Dresden, Germany, and 20 km northwest of Liberec, Czech Republic, the Turów mine forms a part of an area widely known as the "Black Triangle" due to its past heavy industrial pollution, covering portions of eastern Germany, southwestern Poland and northern Czech Republic.


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