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Nature
Jelenia Góra
At the foot of the Karkonosze (Giant Mountains), in an area of about 100 km², more than thirty former residences survive – from medieval strongholds to 19th-century palaces of the Prussian aristocracy and royal family. The Valley of Palace…
Museums
Jelenia Góra
The Gerhart Hauptmann House in Jagniątków (say "yag-NYON-tkoof") is a museum in Villa Wiesenstein, the home of the German playwright and 1912 Nobel Prize winner from 1901 until his death in 1946. Jagniątków, formerly Agnetendorf, is now a…
Churches & monasteries
Jelenia Góra
On Sunday 1 August 1745 at 2 pm, lightning struck the tower of the Church of Grace in Jelenia Góra. It ran down a metal rod holding the canopy over the pulpit and reached the preacher – Pastor Gottlob Adolph was killed in the middle of his…
Museums
Jelenia Góra
The Karkonosze Museum holds more than 9,000 pieces of art glass – from Baroque goblets made in local mountain glassworks to an iridescent plate by Louis Tiffany. The building at Matejki Street 28 was built for the museum in 1912–1914, and…
Palaces
Jelenia Góra
The Schaffgotsch family moved to Cieplice in 1675, after their former seat, Chojnik Castle, burned down following a lightning strike. A century later fire also destroyed the Cieplice manor — and so the palace with an 81-metre façade came i…
Palaces
Jelenia Góra
When fire destroyed Chojnik Castle in 1675, the Schaffgotsch family needed a new seat – and found it at the foot of the same hill. Work on the palace in Sobieszów began in 1705; according to the European Route of Castles and Palaces, it wa…
Old towns & squares
Jelenia Góra
Jelenia Góra's Market Square (Town Hall Square, Plac Ratuszowy; say "YEH-lehn-yah GOO-rah") is the heart of an old Silesian linen-trading town: a rectangular square lined with arcaded houses, with a Baroque-Classical town hall in the middl…
Cities & towns
Jelenia Góra
Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój (say "chyeh-PLEE-tseh SHLON-skyeh ZDROO-y") is the spa district of Jelenia Góra and Poland's oldest spa town: therapeutic bathing in its hot springs has continued since the 13th century. Known in German as Bad Warmbr…
Castles
Jelenia Góra
Chojnik Castle (say "HOY-neek") is a ruined medieval fortress on a rocky, forested summit 627 m above Sobieszów, a district of Jelenia Góra in southwest Poland. It sits inside Karkonosze National Park, part of a cross-border UNESCO biosphe…