Wróblin Głogowski () is a former

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

, now almost completely deserted part of

Głogów Głogów (; german: Glogau, links=no, rarely , cs, Hlohov, szl, Głogōw) is a city in western Poland. It is the county seat of Głogów County, in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (since 1999), and was previously in Legnica Voivodeship (1975–199 ...

, in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in

Głogów County __NOTOC__ Głogów County ( pl, powiat głogowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local go ...

. Wróblin is located in the direct vicinity of the Głogów Copperworks. Degradation of the natural environment by the smelter forced the inhabitants of the village to leave it. Currently, Wróblin Głogowski is located within the administrative borders of Głogów and is inhabited by one family

Name

The name derives from the Polish name "sparrow", a bird from the sparrow family (Passeridae). According to the German geographer and linguist Heinrich Adamy, the name of the town derives from the Polish name "sparrow". - "von sparrow = Sperling". In his work on local names in Silesia published in 1888 in Wrocław, he mentions the Polish name "Wróblina" as the earliest, giving its meaning "Sperlingdorf", i.e., "Village of Sparrows" in Polish. The Germans Germanized the name to Fröbel and as a result it lost its original meaning. In 1295, in the Latin chronicle Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis (the "Wage Book of the Bishopric of Wroclaw"), the village was mentioned in the form of Wroblino.

Monuments

The register of the National Heritage Institute includes a list of monuments:Rejestr zabytków nieruchomych woj. dolnośląskiego. Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa. s. 18. ostęp 5.9.2012 * The Chapel of St. Helena's Church, a classicist brick church, built in 1810 * Wooden bell tower

Other monuments

* The Wróblin Głogowski railroad station * Monument to German soldiers from Wróblin Głogowski who were killed in

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* Near the town, burnt Lusatian burial cemeteries were discovered. The artifacts are currently on display in the Archaeological and History Museum in

Castle.

References

{{coord missing, Lower Silesian Voivodeship Former populated places in Poland Districts of Głogów Abandoned places in Poland