Borowice, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

For other places with the same name, see Borowice.

Borowice
Village
Building in the village
Borowice
Coordinates: 50°47′21″N 15°41′42″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Lower Silesian
Powiat	Karkonosze
Gmina	Podgórzyn
Founded	1644
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	DJE

Borowice [bɔrɔˈvit͡sɛ] (German: Baberhäuser) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Podgórzyn, within Jelenia Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.[1]

It lies approximately 13 km (8 mi) south of Jelenia Góra, and 102 km (63 mi) west of the regional capital Wrocław.

History

The area became part of the emerging Polish state in the 10th century. Initially it was administratively part of the Wleń castellany.[2] The village was founded in 1644 by Swiss carpenter Martin Markensteiner, who fled from Bohemia during the Thirty Years' War.[3]

During World War II, in 1940–1942, the Germans used Belgian, French and Soviet prisoners of war and possibly also Czech and Polish civilians for forced labour to build a road connecting the village with Przełęcz Karkonoska, now known as Droga Borowicka ("Borowice Road"), however, the construction was not completed.[4]

Gallery

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  Wooden house
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  Hotel
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  Memorial to Allied POWs murdered by Nazi Germany in WWII

References

1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
2. Staffa, Marek (2001). Karkonosze (in Polish). Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie. p. 40. ISBN 83-7023-560-3.
3. Staffa, p. 70
4. Przerwa, Tomasz (2020). "Zatrudnienie jeńców belgijskich, francuskich i radzieckich przy budowie Drogi na Przełęcz Karkonoską (Spindlerpaßstraße) 1940–1942". Łambinowicki rocznik muzealny (in Polish). 43. Opole: 5, 8–9, 16. ISSN 0137-5199.