Pobiedna [pɔˈbjɛdna] (German: Wigandsthal) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Leśna, within Lubań County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany (earlier in Prussia); previously it had been part of the historic Upper Lusatia region. The village has a population of 1,300. It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) south of Leśna, 20 km (12 mi) south of Lubań, and 124 km (77 mi) west of the regional capital Wrocław.
The village (the older parts of which are called Unięcice in Polish) was originally named Mayfarthsdorff (because it was on a May pilgrimage route), which became corrupted to Meffersdorf. After Upper Lusatia had passed to Saxony by the 1635 Peace of Prague, its inhabitants, mostly expellees of the Bohemian Unity of the Brethren, received a town charter by Elector John George II in 1667. It took the name Meffersdorfer Städtel, but was renamed Wigandsthal in 1688, in honour of its founder Wigand von Gersdorf. Upon the annexation of northeastern Upper Lusatia by Prussia according to the Final Act of the 1815 Vienna Congress, its town charter was annulled and the region attached to the Silesia Province. Following the establishment of the Oder–Neisse line as the Polish–German border after World War II, the village passed to the Republic of Poland, and was renamed Pobiedna in 1947.
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Coordinates: 50°56′13″N 15°17′45″E / 50.93694°N 15.29583°E / 50.93694; 15.29583
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