Muchobór Wielki (; ) is a

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located in the south-western part of the city. It was established in the territory of the former

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district. Initially a village, the settlement was incorporated into Wrocław on January 1, 1951.

Name

The name ''Muchobor'' (without distinguishing between Mały and Wielki) was first mentioned in 1155. p. 198 The name is derived from a combination of two Polish words – mucha''' ('fly') and ''bór'' ('conifer forest'). In 1315, the equivalent of the suffix ''Wielki'' was added to the name. Heinrich Adamy's work on place names in

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, published in 1888 in Breslau, lists ''Muchobor'' as the oldest place name, giving it the meaning ''Fliegenwald'' ('forest of flies'). The name of the village was later phonetically

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to ''Mochbern'' and lost its original meaning. During the

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era, to remove traces of the settlement's Polish origins, its name was changed to ''Lohbrück''. In 1946, the Polish administration named the village ''Muchobór Wielki''.

History

First records of Muchobór come from 1155 and 1245, when it was part of medieval

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-ruled Poland. In 1474, a

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was signed there by Kings

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, his son Vladislaus II of Bohemia and

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of Hungary. In the 18th century, it was annexed by

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under the Germanized name ''Mochbern'', yet it was still inhabited mostly by people of Polish origin in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Until the secularization of church property in Prussia in 1810, it belonged to the Breslau chapter. On February 23, 1945, it was captured by Soviet troops. On January 1, 1951, it officially became part of Wrocław. In 1991, after reforms in the administrative division of Wrocław, Muchobór Wielki became one of the city's 48 districts.

References

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