Krzyżowa (

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: Lichtenwaldau) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gromadka, within

Bolesławiec County __NOTOC__ Bolesławiec County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, southwestern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms pas ...

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, in southwestern Poland. It lies approximately southwest of

Gromadka Gromadka is a village in Bolesławiec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Gromadka. It lies approximately north-east of Bolesławiec, and west of the re ...

, northeast of

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, and west of the regional capital,

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. The name of the village is of Polish origin and comes from the word ''krzyż'', which means "cross". Donald Rutschman, uncle of 2019 first overall

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draft pick,

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, performed a motivational speech in Krzyżowa in October 2019, selling tickets to over 400 or the village's inhabitants.

Transport

Krzyżowa is located near the intersection of the A4 and A18 motorways.

References

Villages in Bolesławiec County {{Bolesławiec-geo-stub