Lubomierz is a town in
Lwówek Śląski County,
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 ...
, in south-western
Poland
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. It is the seat of the administrative district (
gmina
The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' ) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,479 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages. 940 gminy include cities and tow ...
) called
Gmina Lubomierz. It lies approximately south-west of
Lwówek Śląski, and west of the regional capital
Wrocław
Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...
.
As of 2019, the town has a population of 1,979.
History
It was granted
town rights by Duke
Bolko I the Strict
Bolko (Bolesław) I the Strict, also known as Bolko (Bolesław) of Jawor ( or ''Srogi'' or ''Jaworski''; 1252/56 – 9 November 1301), was a Duke of Lwówek Śląski, Lwówek 1278–81 (with his brother as co-ruler) and Duchy of Jawor, Jawor after ...
in 1291, when it was part of fragmented
Piast-ruled Poland.
Defensive town walls were built that same year.
It was a private church town of the monastery of the Benedictine nuns until
secularization
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in 1810.
[ Five annual ]fair
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s were held in the town in the late 19th century.[
]
Demographics
Notable people
* Hieronymus Vietor (ca. 1480–1546/1547), printer and publisher
Twin towns – sister cities
See twin towns of Gmina Lubomierz.
References
Cities and towns in Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Lwówek Śląski County
Populated riverside places in Poland
Cities in Silesia
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