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4 unusual facts about Ząbkowice Śląskie


Heinrich Joseph Johann of Auersperg

During his reign Münsterberg and Frankenstein, the Silesian dominions of the Auerspergs, came under Prussian rule.

Ząbkowice Śląskie

The town was located exactly halfways between the sites of two previously existing towns that had failed to attract enough settlers: Frankenberg and Löwenstein, and inherited its German name from both.

It was sited on a piece of land that belonged partly to the episcopal lands of Procan (German Protzan, modern Zwrócona) and partly to the Monastery at Trzebnica (German Trebnitz).

In the early 17th century the plague killed about one third of the population, and it has been speculated that events at that time may have inspired the Frankenstein story.


Nicholas the Small

Three years later, and for the same amount, he sold Frankenstein (Ząbkowice) and the monastery of Kamenz (Kamieniec Ząbkowicki) to the Bohemian magnate Heinrich von Haugwitz.


see also

Peterwitz

Stoszowice, a village in Ząbkowice Śląskie County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

Půta of Častolovice

Půta III of Častolovice (also Půta the Younger of Častolovice; died 1434), Bohemian nobleman, Landeshauptmann and pledge lord of the County of Kladsko and the Duchies of Ząbkowice Śląskie and Münsterberg