Gorzeszów
Gorzeszów | |
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Village | |
 Wayside cross in Gorzeszów | |
  Gorzeszów | |
| Coordinates: 50°42′18″N 16°06′45″E / 50.70500°N 16.11250°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Lower Silesian |
| County | Kamienna Góra |
| Gmina | Kamienna Góra |
| Population | |
| • Total | 260 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | DKA |
Gorzeszów [ɡɔˈʐɛʂuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kamienna Góra, within Kamienna Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.[1]
It lies approximately 14 kilometres (9 mi) south of Kamienna Góra, and 81 kilometres (50 mi) south-west of the regional capital Wrocław. It is situated in the Kamienna Góra Valley in the Central Sudetes.
The Nature reserve Głazy Krasnoludków ("Dwarf Boulders") is located near the village.
History
[edit]The village was founded before 1289 within fragmented Piast-ruled Poland. After World War II, in 1945–1947, Poles expelled from Wiśniowce in pre-war south-eastern Poland annexed by the Soviet Union settled in Gorzeszów.[2] An agricultural cooperative was founded in the village in 1951.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ Pawlikowska, Karolina (2016). "Rolnicze spółdzielnie produkcyjne powiatu kamiennogórskiego w latach 1950-1957, cz. 1 – organizacja i uwarunkowania działalności". Rocznik Jeleniogórski (in Polish). Vol. XLVIII. Jelenia Góra. p. 89. ISSN 0080-3480.
- ^ Pawlikowska, p. 96
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