Wrocisławice (german: Obsendorf) is a village in
Lower Silesia
Lower Silesia ( pl, Dolny Śląsk; cz, Dolní Slezsko; german: Niederschlesien; szl, Dolny Ślōnsk; hsb, Delnja Šleska; dsb, Dolna Šlazyńska; Silesian German: ''Niederschläsing''; la, Silesia Inferior) is the northwestern part of the ...
, in the administrative district of
Gmina Środa Śląska
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Gmina Środa Śląska is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Środa Śląska County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the town of Środa Śląska, which lies approximately west of the regiona ...
within
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 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.
The beginnings of the village probably go back to the Middle Ages (the neighboring village of
Bukówek was founded in 1282). The present church of
St Lawrence
Saint Lawrence or Laurence ( la, Laurentius, lit. " laurelled"; 31 December AD 225 – 10 August 258) was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians that the Roman ...
was built in the first half of the 17th century and features an 18th-century altar painting of St Lawrence with a splendid polychrome wooden frame and a baroque painting of St Nicolaus.
File:Obsendorf.jpg, A map of the village by F.B. Wernher, 18th century
References
External links
The Parish Website(in Polish)
General information about Lower Silesia from the State University of New York18th-century maps of Lower Silesian towns and villagesfrom ''Topographia Seu Compendium Silesiae''. ''Pars II'' by Friedrich Bernhard Wernher (website of ''Wratislaviae Amici'')
Villages in Środa Śląska County
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