Borowice, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Borowice | |
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Village | |
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  Borowice | |
| Coordinates: 50°47′21″N 15°41′42″E / 50.78917°N 15.69500°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Lower Silesian |
| Powiat | Karkonosze |
| Gmina | Podgórzyn |
| Founded | 1644 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | DJE |
Borowice [bɔrɔˈvit͡sɛ] (German: Baberhäuser) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Podgórzyn, within Jelenia Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.[1]
It lies approximately 13 km (8 mi) south of Jelenia Góra, and 102 km (63 mi) west of the regional capital Wrocław.
History
[edit]The area became part of the emerging Polish state in the 10th century. Initially it was administratively part of the Wleń castellany.[2] The village was founded in 1644 by Swiss carpenter Martin Markensteiner, who fled from Bohemia during the Thirty Years' War.[3]
During World War II, in 1940–1942, the Germans used Belgian, French and Soviet prisoners of war and possibly also Czech and Polish civilians for forced labour to build a road connecting the village with Przełęcz Karkonoska, now known as Droga Borowicka ("Borowice Road"), however, the construction was not completed.[4]
Gallery
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Wooden house -
Hotel -
Memorial to Allied POWs murdered by Nazi Germany in WWII
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References
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- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ Staffa, Marek (2001). Karkonosze (in Polish). Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie. p. 40. ISBN 83-7023-560-3.
- ^ Staffa, p. 70
- ^ Przerwa, Tomasz (2020). "Zatrudnienie jeńców belgijskich, francuskich i radzieckich przy budowie Drogi na Przełęcz Karkonoską (Spindlerpaßstraße) 1940–1942". Łambinowicki rocznik muzealny (in Polish). 43. Opole: 5, 8–9, 16. ISSN 0137-5199.
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