Grafenort Castle
Grafenort may refer to: * The German name for the village of Gorzanów Gorzanów (german: Grafenort) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bystrzyca Kłodzka, within Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. There is a large Gorzanów Castle in the village. It lies approx ..., in Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland * The settlement of Grafenort (Engelberg), in the municipality of Engelberg in the Swiss canton of Obwalden {{geodis ...
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Gorzanów
Gorzanów (german: Grafenort) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bystrzyca Kłodzka, within Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. There is a large Gorzanów Castle in the village. It lies approximately north of Bystrzyca Kłodzka, south of Kłodzko, and south of the regional capital Wrocław. The village has a population of 921. Name and history The earliest name of the locality seems to have been the German appellation ''Arnoldsdorf'' (or ''Arnsdorf''), derived from the personal name ''Arnold'' (+''dorf''), probably the name of the Lokator who brought German farmers to the village. The later German name of ''Grafenort'' derives from the noble title ''Graf'' (+''ort'', "locality"). In the seventeenth century the owner of the village was Johann Gundacker ''Graf'' von Heberstein. The name "Gorzanów" was introduced officially only ''after'' 1945. The name "Gorzanów" appears in the standard gazetteer of Polish place-names, t ...
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