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20 unusual facts about Wrocław


2010–11 Korfball Europa Cup

The first round took place in the weekend of 24–26 September in Wrocław (Poland)

ACN Inc.

The company is based in Concord, North Carolina, United States, ACN has international expansion offices located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Sydney, Australia; Wrocław, Poland; Umeå, Sweden and Seoul, South Korea.

Andrija Zlatić

Zlatić triumphed in the 2011 World Cup Finals in Wrocław and won “Crystal Globes” in the 50m pistol category.

Carl Gotthard Langhans

He died at Grüneiche (Dąbie after 1945 and part of Śródmieście borough of Wrocław) near Breslau.

DHL Wroclaw Open

It was held in 2008 and 2009, at the Toya Golf & Country Club in Wrocław.

Dzielnica

Łódź, Wrocław and Poznań are each divided into five districts of this type.

Eberhard Mock

He is a detective and counsellor of the police department in Breslau.

Georg Jarno

Georg Jarno (3 June 1868 in Buda – 25 May 1920 in Breslau) was a Hungarian composer, mainly of operettas.

Jan Styka

His renowned panoramas include "Bem in Siedmiogrod" (1897), "The Martydrom of Christians in Nero's Circus" (1897), and at the Wrocław Branch of the National Museum of Poland is the monumental collaboration "The Battle of Racławice" painted in 1894.

Jan Tomasz Adamus

In 1995–2008, Adamus was a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Wrocław and a guest lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna (Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst) in Graz.

Juliusz Petry

Juliusz Petry (born 1890, died 1961) - was a Polish writer, and radio director; he was the first director of Polish Radio in Lwów and Wilno and, after World War II, in Wrocław.

Kazimierz Boratyński

Kazimierz Boratyński (born July 30, 1906 in Gródek - December 8, 1991 in Wrocław) was a Polish chemist.

Klaus Clusius

Klaus Paul Alfred Clusius (19 March 1903 – 28 May 1963) was a German physical chemist from Breslau (Wrocław), Silesia.

Leo Buerger

Initially Buerger practiced at the Lenox Hill Hospital (1901-1904), then the Mount Sinai Hospital (1904–05), then as a volunteer in the surgical clinic at Wrocław with study visits to Vienna and Paris.

Michal Lasko

Lasko was born in Poland in Wrocław, and his father Lech Łasko is a former Polish volleyball player - member of Polish gold team from 1976 Summer Olympics.

Murray Markin

In August 1978, Markin and North York Mayor Mel Lastman presented a $1,000 audio-visual presentation to the mayor and council of Wrocław, Poland on the "culture, history and topography of North York".

Oskar Langendorff

After studying medicine in Wrocław (Breslau), Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau Langendorff obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Königsberg in 1875, subsequently working there as a research assistant.

Pierwsza miłość

Pierwsza miłość (eng. First Love) is a Polish soap opera set in Wrocław, Poland.

Stanisław Tołpa

Stanislaw Tołpa (b. 3 November 1901 in Ruda Łańcucka - d. 11 October 1996 in Wrocław) - professor of botany, has developed peat preparation called by his name.

Stanisław Zaczyk

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


Adina Bar-On

One of recent major projects, such as "Aesthetics and Bias" involve institutions such as Bezalel Academy, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, University of Fine Arts in Poznań, Warsaw Academy, Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, to work together in a process of developing new aesthetics.

Aldona Orman

After matura Aldona Orman started study at Department of Puppetry at Faculty in Wrocław of Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts.

Baltic Ground Services

In May 2010, Baltic Ground Services established a subsidiary in Poland with hopes to expand into six largest Polish airports in Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław, Gdańsk, Poznan and Katowice.

Bohdan Arct

In 1947 he moved with his English wife Beryl and daughter to Communist Poland - Wrocław, Warsaw and finally Dobrzanów, where he joined his mother.

Casimir I the Restorer

To strengthen his rule he re-created the bishopric in Kraków and Wrocław and erected the new Wawel Cathedral.

Dombrücke

Tumski Bridge, a pedestrian bridge in Wrocław, Poland built in 1889

Eugeniusz Dębski

Born January 26, 1952 in Truskawiec, early in his life he moved to Wrocław where he graduated from the Russian faculty of the Wrocław University.

Friedrich Christian Hermann Uber

Born in Breslau (modern Wrocław), he was the son of lawyer and music-lover Christian Benjamin (born Hermann) Uber; his brother Alexander was a noted cello virtuoso.

Gęsiniec

From 1813 to 1919, it was administered by the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia in the political subdivision Regierungsbezirk Breslau.

Jakub Rene Kosik

Three years later, 1997, Jakub was able to get (that was not easy, because he was 14 y.o. then) to Wrocław's night party "Technodelic Vinyl Night", where he met the organizers: DJ Mniamos and Patrycja Hefczyńska (Husky, Őszibarack).

Leonardo Gigli

When Chiara died in 1891 Gigli left Italy, travelling to Paris to work under Tarnier, then to London and Wrocław where he worked under Professor Henry Fritsch from November 1892 to June 1893.

Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City

Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City is a book by Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse about the history of Wrocław.

MitOst

The culmination of the union year is an international MitOst festival that takes place annually in a new city (2003:Pécs/Hungary, 2004:Vilnius/Lithuania, 2005: Wrocław/Poland, 2006: Timișoara/Romania, 2007: Görlitz/Zgorzelec, Germany/Poland).

PIONIER

Currently the network connects Białystok, Bielsko-Biała, Bydgoszcz, Częstochowa, Gdańsk, Gliwice, Kielce, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Opole, Poznań, Puławy, Radom, Toruń, Warsaw, Wrocław, Koszalin, Szczecin, Olsztyn and Zielona Góra with a fiber-optic 10 Gbit/s patch-cord, and consists of 5738,86 km of optical fiber.

Polish Theatre in Wrocław

The main building, the result of the endeavors of a Wrocław merchant: Paul Auerbach, was designed by Berlin architect: Walter Hentschel and completed in 1909.

Preczlaw of Pogarell

Przecław of Pogorzela was born May 5, 1310 into a noble family from Pogorzela and by April 1329 was Canon of Wrocław.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Hildesheim

Adolf Bertram † (26 Apr 1906 Appointed - 25 May 1914 Appointed, Archbishop of Breslau (Wrocław))

Samuel Hirsch Margulies

He was born in Berezhany, western Ukraine (then mainly Polish speaking town with mixed Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish population in the kingdom of Galicia of Austro-Hungarian Empire), and studied at the Breslau Jewish Theological Seminary and at the universities of Breslau and Leipzig, in Germany.

Silesian Voivodeship

The voivodship capital enjoys good railway and road connections with Gdańsk (motorway A1) and Ostrava (motorway A1), Kraków (motorway A4), Wrocław (motorway A4), Łódź (motorway A1) and Warsaw.

It is also the crossing point for many international routes like E40 connecting Calais, Brussels, Cologne, Dresden, Wrocław, Kraków and Kiev and E75 from Scandinavia to the Balkans.

Socialist realism in Poland

Other prominent examples of urban design included Marszałkowska Housing Estate (MDM) in Warsaw, Kościuszkowska Housing Estate (KDM) in Wrocław, Main Station Gdynia Główna, a housing estate in Kowary, and the Palace of Coal-Basin Culture in Dąbrowa Górnicza.

Środa Treasure

The majority of the items are displayed in local museum of Środa Śląska, although in the past exhibits were held in museums including the Archeologicial Museum in Wrocław, National Museum in Wrocław (which technically supervises the museum in Środa), National Archeological Museum in Warsaw, as well as abroad, in the Museum of Arttistic Craft in Dresden, Germany and in Valladolid, Spain.

Stefan Inglot

Stefan Inglot (b. March 10, 1902 in Albigowa near Łańcut - January 11, 1994 in Wrocław, Poland) was a Polish historian and a cooperative activist.

Thomas II, bishop of Wrocław

Before his death, on the Eve of St. John in 1290, the duke confirmed the rights of the Church to sovereignty over the territories of Neisse and Otmuchów making Thomas the first Prince-Bishop in Wrocław.

Tony Rickardsson

With 6 First positions at Wrocław (1st Event), Krško (3rd), Millennium Stadium (4th), Idrætsparken (5th) in København, Praha (6th) and Lonigo (9th); a second in the Swedish event at Eskilstuna (2nd); third in the Scandinavian held in Målilla (7th) and a lowly 9th in the Polish Grand Prix held at Bydgoszcz (8th Event).

UWR

University of Wrocław, a public, research university in Wrocław, Poland

Wacław Sierpiński

Honorary Degrees: Lwów (1929), St. Marks of Lima (1930), Amsterdam (1931), Tarta (1931), Sofia (1939), Prague (1947), Wrocław (1947), Lucknow (1949), and Moscow (1967).

Warsaw Eagles

KFA Wielkopolska, Pomorze Seahawks (currently Seahawks Gdynia) and The Crew Wrocław (currently Giants Wrocław), the Eagles debuted in the very first edition of the Polish American Football League and having dominated each game, won the first Championship title.

Wellnhoferia

Andrzej Elżanowski (2001) of the Institute of Zoology of the University of Wrocław, Poland, determined the differences resulted from a "phylogenetic reduction rather than individual variation."

Xawery Żuławski

His second feature Wojna polsko-ruska (2009), adapted from the controversial best-selling novel by Dorota Masłowska, won First Prize in the New Polish Films competition at the 9th Era New Horizons Film Festival in Wrocław.