Ciechanowice
village in Lower Silesian, Poland
Ciechanowice [t͡ɕɛxanɔˈvit͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Marciszów, within Kamienna Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is situated on the Bóbr River.
History
Town rights were granted in 1754 and revoked in 1809. It was a center for copper and sulfur mining. In 1842, the settlement had a population of 1,182.
After assumption of Polish rule in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement, the local populace was expelled by mid-1946, for new Polish settlers to take their place.
Transport
The village is served by Ciechanowice railway station.
“Ciechanowice” enters the record as village in Lower Silesian, Poland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ciechanowice, village and Lower can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Ciechanowice” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ciechanowice, village and Lower provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1882547. VIAF identifies the subject as 2416149235090276690006. Authority coordinates are 50.870, 15.978. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1754, 1809, 1842 and 1946.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ciechanowice” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.