Piotrowice | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Lower Silesian |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Jawor |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Męcinka |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 51.0608°N 16.1439°W |
Elevation M: | 215 |
Population Total: | 1046 |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | DJA |
Piotrowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Męcinka, within Jawor County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.[1] It lies approximately 4km (02miles) east of Męcinka, 40NaN0 north-west of Jawor, and 630NaN0 west of the regional capital Wrocław.
In 1842, the village had a population of 1,386.[2]
In the final stages of World War II, on 30 January 1945, a German-organized death march of Allied prisoners of war from the Stalag Luft 7 POW camp stopped in the village.[3]