Stary Zdrój

Stary Zdrój
District of Wałbrzych
View from the King John III Sobieski Park
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Coordinates: 50°46′43″N 16°17′50″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Lower Silesian
County/city	Wałbrzych
First mentioned	1357
Population  (2014)	8,601[1]
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code	+48 74

Stary Zdrój (German: Altwasser) is a district of the city of Wałbrzych in southwestern Poland.

Formerly a spa town, it is located 43 m. by rail S.W. from Wrocław, and 3 m. N. from centre of Wałbrzych. It has factories for glass, porcelain (Fabryka Porcelany Wałbrzych S.A.), machinery, cotton-spinning, iron-foundries and used to have coal-mines.

The oldest known mention of the settlement comes from a 1357 document from the nearby Krzeszów Abbey, when it was under Polish rule as part of the Duchy of Świdnica. In 1900 the population was 12,144.[2] There are two historic churches and a railway station in Stary Zdrój.

Gallery

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  Pełcznica river and the historic Pod Lwami House ("Under the Lions") on the right, in wintertime
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  Gothic Revival Church of the Resurrection of Christ
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  Gothic Revival Church of St. Barbara
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  Wałbrzych Miasto train station

See also

• Carl Tielsch & Co.

References

1. "Liczba mieszkańców dzielnic Wałbrzycha". Nasz Wałbrzych – niezależny portal miejski (in Polish). 16 April 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
2.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Altwasser". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 766.