Borowice, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Borowice
Borowice
Village
	Borowice Location of Borowice, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
	Coordinates: 50°47′21″N 15°41′42″E / 50.78917°N 15.69500°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] 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[edit]

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[edit]

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

References[edit]

^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
^ Staffa, Marek (2001). Karkonosze (in Polish). Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie. p. 40. ISBN 83-7023-560-3.
^ Staffa, p. 70
^ 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.

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[TERYT-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.

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Seat	Podgórzyn
Other villages	Borowice Głębock Marczyce Miłków Przesieka Ścięgny Sosnówka Staniszów Zachełmie