| Zagórzyce | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Lower Silesian |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Wołów |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Wołów |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 1175 |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland#Poland Lower Silesian Voivodeship |
| Coordinates: | 51.2692°N 16.5431°W |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Registration Plate: | DWL |
| Blank Name Sec2: | Voivodeship roads |
Zagórzyce is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wołów, within Wołów County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.[1] It lies approximately 10km (10miles) south-west of Wołów and 390NaN0 north-west of the regional capital Wrocław.
The oldest known mention of the village come from a chronicle from 1175. In a document of Pope Innocent III issued in 1201 in Segni, the village was mentioned under the Latinized Polish name Zagorizs and confirmed as a possession of the monastery in nearby Lubiąż.[2] In a document of Bishop of Wrocław Wawrzyniec issued in 1217, the village appeared as Zagorici.[3] The name is of Polish origin and comes from the words za górami, which means "behind the hills".[4] [5] Since the Middle Ages, it was part of Piast-ruled Poland, and later on, it was also part of Bohemia (Czechia), Prussia and Germany. During World War II, it was the location of a forced labour subcamp of the Nazi German prison for youth in Wołów.[6] In 1945, following Germany's defeat in World War II, the village became again part of Poland.