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Lwówek Śląski
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town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
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Place details
- Locality
- Lwówek Śląski
- Region
- województwo dolnośląskie
- Country
- Polska
- Population
- 9,657
- Timezone
- Europe/Warsaw
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Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Lower Silesian
- County
- Lwówek
- Gmina
- Lwówek Śląski
- Established
- before 1209
- Founded by
- Henry the Bearded
- Named after
- Lion
- Mayor
- Dawid Kobiałka
- Total
- 16.65 km (6.43 sq mi)
- Highest elevation ska ka
- 300 m (980 ft)
- Lowest elevation market square
- 205 m (673 ft)
- Density
- 532.7/km (1,380/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Postal code
- 59-600
- Area code
- +48 75
- Car plates
- DLW
- Climate
- Dfb
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Encyclopedic overview
Lwówek Śląski ([ˈlvuvɛk ˈɕlɔ̃skʲi] ; formerly Lwów; German: Löwenberg in Schlesien) is a town in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland. Situated on the Bóbr River, Lwówek Śląski is about 30 kilometres (19 miles) NNW of Jelenia Góra and has a population of about 9,000 inhabitants. It is the administrative seat of Lwówek County and of the municipality Gmina Lwówek Śląski.
Founded in the 13th century, it was granted town rights in 1217, which became a model of municipal rights for a number of towns in southern Poland, including Cieszyn and Oświęcim, and from 1281 to 1286 it was a local Ducal seat of the Piast dynasty. Its prosperity came from the exploitation of gold and silver deposits, and after their depletion it was a center for cloth and linen making. Lwówek has also been a brewing center since the 13th century, with "Browar Lwówek" brewery being the oldest company in Poland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lwówek Śląski” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.