Ludwikowice Kłodzkie Explained

Ludwikowice Kłodzkie
Settlement Type:Village
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Voivodeship
Subdivision Name1:Lower Silesian
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Kłodzko
Subdivision Type3:Gmina
Subdivision Name3:Nowa Ruda
Established Title:First mentioned
Established Date:1352
Coordinates:50.6178°N 16.4783°W
Pushpin Map:Poland
Elevation Max M:650
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Population Total:2540
Registration Plate:DKL

Ludwikowice Kłodzkie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowa Ruda, within Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

It is situated on the Włodzica River. It lies approximately 5km (03miles) north of Nowa Ruda, 24km (15miles) north-west of Kłodzko, and 69km (43miles) south-west of the regional capital Wrocław.

History

The oldest known mention of the village comes from 1352, although it certainly existed earlier. Between 1871 and 1945, it was part of Germany. During World War II in 1942, the Germans established a forced labour camp for Jews in the village and a forced labour subcamp of the Nazi prison in Kłodzko.[1] A group of Polish forced laborers were sent to the Nazi prison in Kłodzko for making contact with Jewish forced laborers.[2] In 1944, it was transformed into a subcamp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, intended for Jewish women.[3] Of about 600 imprisoned women, up to 300 died.[3]

There is a historic Church of St. Michael the Archangel and a museum in the village.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Megargee. Geoffrey P.. Overmans. Rüdiger. Vogt. Wolfgang. 2022. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 670. 978-0-253-06089-1.
  2. Konieczny. Alfred. 1974. Więzienie karne w Kłodzku w latach II wojny światowej. Śląski Kwartalnik Historyczny Sobótka. Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Wrocław. pl. XXIX. 3. 380.
  3. Web site: Subcamps of KL Gross- Rosen. Gross-Rosen Museum in Rogoźnica. 14 March 2020.