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4 unusual facts about Lower Silesia


Berlin Ostbahnhof

In 1845, it was renamed Niederschlesisch-Märkischer Bahnhof (Lower Silesia-Brandenburg Station) after a railway merger.

Henry III the White

Another manifestation of Henry III's rule was the intensive German colonization of Lower Silesia, which significantly contributed to the growth and prosperity of his Duchy.

Since then, he became in the head of the political opposition in the Lower Silesia against the government of Bolesław II.

John, Duke of Ścinawa

In 1328, John supported the inhabitants of Brzeg-Legnica in the fight against Bolesław III the Generous and Henry VI the Good; however, this war caused significant areas of devastation outside Lower Silesia.


Duchy of Żagań

Its capital was Żagań in Lower Silesia, the territory stretched to the town of Nowogród Bobrzański in the north and reached the Lusatian Neisse at Przewóz in the west, including two villages beyond the river (Pechern and Neudorf).

Dzierżoniów

To differentiate between other places named Reichenbach, the Lower Silesian town became known in German as Reichenbach im Eulengebirge, or "Reichenbach in the Owl Mountains".

Edmund Osmańczyk

Edmund Jan Osmańczyk (August 10, 1913, Deutsch Jägel, Lower Silesia, German Empire – October 4, 1989, Warsaw, People's Republic of Poland), Polish writer, author of Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements.

Frederick Erdmann, Prince of Anhalt-Pless

#Anna Emilie (Pless, 20 May 1770 – Fürstenstein, 1 February 1830), married on 21 May 1791 Hans Henry VI, Imperial Count of Hochberg and Freiherr of Fürstenstein (near Waldenburg in Lower Silesia).

Gila von Weitershausen

Born in Trebnitz, (today Trzebnica), Lower Silesia, Germany (today Poland) into an aristocratic family, she has three brothers and two sister and is the great-granddaughter of Georg Graf von Hertling.

Henryk Gulbinowicz

In addition, he founded the biweekly "Nowe Życie" (New Life) and crowned the statue of the Virgin as protector of the famous shrine of Wambierzyce in Lower Silesia, which attracts pilgrimages continually.

Ludwig Scholz

Ludwig Scholz (30 June 1937 in Juliusberg, Landkreis Oels, Lower Silesia, now Dobroszyce, Oleśnica County, Poland, – 20 September 2005 in Nuremberg, Bavaria) was a German politician of the CSU and the mayor of Nuremberg.

Mehltheuer

It should not be confused with a town that had the same name before 1945 located in Lower Silesia, now known as Gościęcice, Poland.

Michael Willmann

Willmann's first known paintings, commissioned by Abbot Arnold Freiberger of the Abbatia Lubensis abbey in Leubus, Lower Silesia, date from 1656.

Ossolineum

Unexpectedly in the summer of 1944, this collection was transferred by the Germans further West and stored in Adelin (Zgrodno) near Złotoryja in Lower Silesia in the summer of 1944.

Świny, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Świny Castle was first mentioned in 1108 as Castrum Suini in Poloniae by the medieval chronicler Cosmas of Prague, it is thereby the oldest castle in Lower Silesia.


see also

Deer Hill

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

Husinec

Husinec, Kingdom of Bohemia (now: Gęsiniec, Poland), town in Lower Silesia founded by religious followers of Jan Hus in 1750

Middle Silesia

The western half of Lower Silesia was incorporated into Regierungsbezirk Liegnitz (Legnica), the adjacent Upper Silesian land in the east into Regierungsbezirk Oppeln (Opole).