Lwowek Slaski

Lwowek Slaski is a city inside the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland. Situated at the Bobr River, Lwowek Slaski is ready 30 kilometers NNW of Jelenia Gora and has a population of approximately 10,300 populations. It is the administrative seat of Lwowek Slaski County and additionally of the smaller municipality called Gmina Lwowek Slaski. The place of Lwowek Slaski, densely wooded and located at the inner facet of the unsettled Silesian Przesieka became steadily cleared and populated via German peasants in the first half of the 13th century in the course of the Ostsiedlung.

The metropolis changed into founded by means of Duke of Poland Henry the Bearded who specified it for an administrative centre in a formerly uninhabited, borderline Polish Lusatia territory. By 1217 the settlement, based by the Duke of Wroclaw, had important privileges, which include rights to brew, mill, fish, and hunt within a mile from settlement. German colonists expanded upon the pre-existing agreement and in 1217 it obtained town rights as the second one town in Silesia its fashion of governance became duplicated with the aid of different neighborhood towns, together with Bunzlau, as Lowenberg Rights or Lwowek Slaski Rights.