Gorzeszów Explained

Gorzeszów
Settlement Type:Village
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Voivodeship
Subdivision Name1:Lower Silesian
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Kamienna Góra
Subdivision Type3:Gmina
Subdivision Name3:Kamienna Góra
Coordinates:50.705°N 16.1125°W
Pushpin Map:Poland
Population Total:260
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Registration Plate:DKA

Gorzeszów 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 14km (09miles) south of Kamienna Góra, and 81km (50miles) 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

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal). 2008-06-01. Polish.
  2. Pawlikowska. Karolina. 2016. Rolnicze spółdzielnie produkcyjne powiatu kamiennogórskiego w latach 1950-1957, cz. 1 – organizacja i uwarunkowania działalności. Rocznik Jeleniogórski. pl. Jelenia Góra. XLVIII. 89. 0080-3480.
  3. Pawlikowska, p. 96