Środa Śląska County Środa is the Polish word for Wednesday. It appears in the names of Polish towns holding Wednesday weekly fairs.
There are two towns in Poland called Środa:
* Środa Śląska, in south-west Poland (Lower Silesian Voivodeship)
* Środa Wielkopo ...
Gmina Miękinia
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Gmina Miękinia is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Środa Śląska County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the village of Miękinia, which lies approximately east of Środa Śląska, and west ...
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It lies approximately east of Środa Śląska, and 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 ...
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The city has a population of 2078.
Miękinia is one of the places of winemaking in Poland.
Transport
The
Voivodeship road
According to classes and categories of public roads in Poland, a voivodeship road ( pl, droga wojewódzka) is a category of roads one step below national roads in importance. The roads are numbered from 100 to 993. Total length of voivodeship r ...
341 runs through Miękinia, connecting it with the
National road
The National Road (also known as the Cumberland Road) was the first major improved highway in the United States built by the federal government. Built between 1811 and 1837, the road connected the Potomac and Ohio Rivers and was a main tran ...
94, which runs nearby, south of the town. There is also a train station in Miękinia.
Sports
The local football club is Pogoń Miękinia. It competes in the lower leagues.
Notable people
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Robert Hermann Raudner
Robert Hermann Raudner (1854–1915) was a German landscape and genre painter, and etcher.
Raudner was born 21 January 1854 at Nimkau in Silesia,landscape and genre painter, and
etcher
Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types ...