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Wałbrzych Wałbrzych (; ; or ''Walmbrich''; or ) is a city located in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in southwestern Poland, seat of Wałbrzych County. Wałbrzych lies approximately southwest of the voivodeship capital Wrocław and about from the Czec ...

in the

Lower Silesian Voivodeship Lower Silesian Voivodeship (, ) in southwestern Poland, is one of the 16 Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is divided. It covers an area of and has a total population of 2,899,986. It is one of the wealthiest ...

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, located in the south-western part of the city.

History

In 1892, local mines were merged into one company. It employed 5,557 people as of 1912. In 1898, a tram was established. Some

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from the

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and Austrian Partitions of Poland were employed in the settlement since 1894. According to a document from 1907, those Poles were employed as craftsmen, industrial workers, shaft workers, construction workers. It was included within the city limits of Wałbrzych in 1951. In 2016, a hoard of 1,385 late medieval coins, Prague groschen of Kings Charles IV and

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, was found on the border of Wałbrzych and Boguszów-Gorce. The hoard may have been hidden after 1420 during the

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. It is one of the largest groschen hoards found in Poland.

Demographics

References

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