Jeżów Sudecki (german: Grunau) is a village in
Jelenia Góra County,
Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, or Lower Silesia Province, in southwestern Poland, is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is divided. The voivodeship was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Wrocław, Legnica, Wałbrz ...
, in south-western Poland.
It is the seat of the administrative district (
gmina
The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' , from German ''Gemeinde'' meaning ''commune'') is the principal unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,477 gminas throughout the country, encompassing over 4 ...
) called
Gmina Jeżów Sudecki.
Jeżów Sudecki is one of the places considered as the "birthplace of the sport of
gliding
Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne. The word ''soaring'' is al ...
".
It lies approximately north of
Jelenia Góra, and west of the regional capital
Wrocław.
The village has a population of 1,800.
See also
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Grunau Baby
*
Hanna Reitsch
*
Wolf Hirth
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Karkonosze National Park
References
External links
The Gliding Factory
Villages in Karkonosze County
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