Krobielowice (german: Krieblowitz) is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Kąty Wrocławskie __NOTOC__ Gmina Kąty Wrocławskie is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Wrocław County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the town of Kąty Wrocławskie, which lies approximately south-west of the ...

, within Wrocław County,

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, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Kąty Wrocławskie and south-west of the regional capital Wrocław. The town was founded in 1321. As ''Krieblowitz'' in the Prussian Province of Silesia, it was one of the residences of renowned

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Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, co-victor with Wellington over

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, who died here in 1819. It was incorporated into the new

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in 1871. From 1937–45 under the

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Krieblowitz was renamed ''Blüchersruh'' ("Blücher's resting place"), partly to honour the Field Marshal, and partly because the authorities thought the original name sounded " too foreign". The town remained part of Germany until the end of the Second World War. Blücher's

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was vandalized by Soviet troops in 1945. The area was transferred to Poland later that same year. Blücher's empty tomb remains. In 1990s, the palace was renovated. It houses now a hotel and a restaurant. The area around the hotel was turned into a golf course.

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Krobielowice Krobielowice (german: Krieblowitz) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kąty Wrocławskie, within Wrocław County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Kąty Wrocławskie and ...

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