Wojczyce (german: Polkendorf) is a village in the administrative district of
Gmina Åšroda ÅšlÄ…ska
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Gmina Åšroda ÅšlÄ…ska is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Åšroda ÅšlÄ…ska County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the town of Åšroda ÅšlÄ…ska, which lies approximately west of the regiona ...
, within
Åšroda ÅšlÄ…ska County Åšroda 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 Åšroda:
* Åšroda ÅšlÄ…ska, in south-west Poland (Lower Silesian Voivodeship)
* Åšroda Wielkopols ...
,
Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, or Lower Silesia Province, in southwestern Poland, is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is divided. The voivodeship was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Wrocław, Legnica, Wałbrz ...
, in south-western Poland.
History
The region formed part of Poland since the establishment of the state in the 10th century. In the 18th century it was annexed by
Prussia
Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...
, and from 1871 to 1945 it also formed part of
Germany
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. During
World War II
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, a German
forced labour
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subcamp of the prison in
Jawor
Jawor (german: Jauer) is a town in south-western Poland with 22,890 inhabitants (2019). It is situated in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship (from 1975 to 1998 it was in the former Legnica Voivodeship). It is the seat of Jawor County, and lies appro ...
was operated in the village.
After the defeat of
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
in the war in 1945, it became again part of Poland.
Notable residents
Clara Immerwahr
Clara Helene Immerwahr (; 21 June 1870 – 2 May 1915) was a German chemist. She was the first German woman to be awarded a doctorate in chemistry in Germany, and is credited with being a pacifist as well as a "heroine of the women's rights mov ...
(1870 – 1915), German chemist
References
Wojczyce
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