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Czerna, Bolesławiec County

village in Gmina Nowogrodziec, Poland

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ5201980 ↗
Source-derived summary

Czerna [ˈt͡ʂɛrna] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowogrodziec, within Bolesławiec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

History

During World War II, the Germans operated a penal forced labour camp, and the E234 forced labour subcamp of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp in the village.

Transport

The Polish National road 94 passes through the village, and the A4 motorway runs nearby, northwest of the village.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Czerna, Bolesławiec County” as village in Gmina Nowogrodziec, Poland. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Czerna, Bolesławiec and County.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 69-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Czerna, Bolesławiec and County providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Czerna, Bolesławiec County”, the useful work is to connect “village in Gmina Nowogrodziec, Poland” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5201980. Authority coordinates are 51.226, 15.355. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Czerna, Bolesławiec County”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Czerna, Bolesławiec County primary sources, Czerna, Bolesławiec County archive and Czerna research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Czerna, Bolesławiec County”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Czerna, Bolesławiec County” 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.