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The Battle of Legnica 1241 - the Mongol invasion that shook Silesia Historia Wrocławia
The Battle of Legnica 1241 - the Mongol invasion that shook Silesia
On 9 April 1241, near Legnica, the forces of Henry II the Pious clashed with the Mongol invasion. The duke was killed, and his death changed the fate of Silesia for decades to come.
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250 years of building - how the Wrocław town hall came to be Historia Wrocławia
250 years of building - how the Wrocław town hall came to be
The Wrocław town hall has no single date of completion - it is a building that grew together from successive blocks added over two and a half centuries, from the Gothic consistorium before 1299 to the Renaissance spire of the tower from 1558.
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Historic Cemeteries of Wrocław Historia Wrocławia
Historic Cemeteries of Wrocław
From Osobowice Cemetery to former necropolises turned into parks - what Wrocław's cemeteries look like, who they served, and what can still be read in them today from before and after 1945.
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War cemeteries and places of remembrance from WWII in Lower Silesia Historia Wrocławia
War cemeteries and places of remembrance from WWII in Lower Silesia
After the fighting of 1945, Lower Silesia was covered by a network of makeshift graves of soldiers from several armies, camp victims and civilians. They were gradually turned into permanent necropolises, sometimes as late as after 1990.
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Princess Daisy von Pless - the most famous resident of Książ Castle Historia Wrocławia
Princess Daisy von Pless - the most famous resident of Książ Castle
A Welsh aristocrat, wife of the lord of Książ, author of widely read memoirs and patron of hospitals - and, towards the end of her life, a resident of a decaying villa in Wałbrzych. The story of Princess Daisy is one of the most colourful biographies linked to Lower Silesia.
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Old Crafts and Industry of Wrocław Historia Wrocławia
Old Crafts and Industry of Wrocław
From the medieval butchers' guild on Stare Jatki, through mills grinding grain on the waters of the Oder for six hundred years, to a wagon factory that has run without interruption since the 19th century - the history of Wrocław's crafts and industry has a surprisingly long continuity.
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How Lower Silesia emigrated to Israel: Legal emigration in 1949-1950 Historia Wrocławia
How Lower Silesia emigrated to Israel: Legal emigration in 1949-1950
In the year between the September 1949 announcement and the closing of the border at the end of 1950, around 20,000 Jews legally left Lower Silesia for Israel. We look at how the procedure worked and what remained afterwards.
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March into the Frost: the Evacuation of Wrocław Civilians in Winter 1945 Historia Wrocławia
March into the Frost: the Evacuation of Wrocław Civilians in Winter 1945
In January 1945, Gauleiter Karl Hanke ordered the residents of Wrocław to be evacuated on foot in twenty-degree frost. How many people did not survive the journey is something sources still disagree on today.
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The factory owners and industrialists who built industrial Lower Silesia Historia Wrocławia
The factory owners and industrialists who built industrial Lower Silesia
Coal, silver, wool and sugar turned small towns in Lower Silesia into industrial centres - from the clock factory in Świebodzice to the mines of Wałbrzych, whose traces are still visible in the region's landscape.
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Festung Breslau - three months of siege that changed the city forever Historia Wrocławia
Festung Breslau - three months of siege that changed the city forever
In August 1944 Wrocław was declared a German fortress, and five months later the city faced evacuation, siege and capitulation that changed it forever, both physically and in terms of its population.
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Over a hundred subcamps - the Gross-Rosen network in Lower Silesia Historia Wrocławia
Over a hundred subcamps - the Gross-Rosen network in Lower Silesia
By 1944 the Gross-Rosen concentration camp had grown into a network of over a hundred subcamps at factories and construction sites across Lower Silesia, the Sudetes and the Lubusz region. Both male and female subcamps supplied labour to, among others, the arms, aviation and textile industries.
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Głogów as a Fortress - the Star Fort and the City's Great Sieges Historia Wrocławia
Głogów as a Fortress - the Star Fort and the City's Great Sieges
From the defence under Bolesław the Wrymouth to the Napoleonic sieges - for centuries Głogów defended a ford on the Oder. We look at how a stronghold guarding the river crossing grew into a Prussian fortress, with the Star Fort at its centre.
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