Krasków (german: Kratzkau) is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Marcinowice __NOTOC__ Gmina Marcinowice is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Świdnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the village of Marcinowice, which lies approximately east of Świdnica and south-west of ...

, within Świdnica County,

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, in south-western Poland. Krasków lies approximately north-east of

Świdnica Świdnica (; german: Schweidnitz; cs, Svídnice; szl, Świdńica) is a city in south-western Poland in the region of Silesia. As of 2019, it has a population of 57,014 inhabitants. It lies in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, being the seventh larges ...

, and south-west of the regional capital

Wrocław Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...

Etymology

The name of the village is of Polish origin and comes from the word ''kraska'', which means "

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Sights

Krasków is the site of a

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palace, built by the

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Zedlitz-Leipe noble family in 1746, allegedly according to plans by Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach. Situated in a park laid out by Peter Joseph Lenné in 1848 it today serves as a hotel.

References

Villages in Świdnica County Palaces in Poland {{Świdnica-geo-stub