Stary Zdrój () is a district of the city of

Wałbrzych Wałbrzych (; ; or ''Walmbrich''; or ) is a city located in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in southwestern Poland, seat of Wałbrzych County. Wałbrzych lies approximately southwest of the voivodeship capital Wrocław and about from the Czec ...

in southwestern

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

. Formerly a

spa town A spa town is a resort town based on a mineral spa (a developed mineral spring). Patrons visit spas to "take the waters" for their purported health benefits. Thomas Guidott set up a medical practice in the English town of Bath, Somerset, Ba ...

, it is located 43 m. by rail S.W. from

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 ...

, and 3 m. N. from centre of

. It has factories for glass, porcelain ( Fabryka Porcelany Wałbrzych S.A.), machinery, cotton-spinning, iron-foundries and used to have coal-mines. The oldest known mention of the settlement comes from a 1357 document from the nearby

Krzeszów Abbey Krzeszów Abbey (, ) is a historical Baroque architecture, Baroque Cistercians, Cistercian monastery in Krzeszów, Lower Silesia, Poland. The Abbey, a 1242 Benedictine foundation, from 1289 to 1810 was run by Cistercians, until it was secularized ...

, when it was under Polish rule as part of the

Duchy of Świdnica A duchy, also called a dukedom, is a country, territory, fief, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess, a ruler hierarchically second to the king or queen in Western European tradition. There once existed an important difference between "sovereign d ...

Stanisław Poniatowski Stanisław Poniatowski was the name of several Polish nobles: * Stanisław Poniatowski (1676–1762), castellan of Kraków * Stanisław August Poniatowski Stanisław II August (born Stanisław Antoni Poniatowski; 17 January 1732 – 12 Februa ...

stayed in Stary Zdrój in 1784. In 1900 the population was 12,144. There are two historic churches and a railway station in Stary Zdrój.

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Wałbrzych, Dom pod lwami nad Pełcznicą (styczeń 2010).jpg, Pełcznica river and the historic ''Pod Lwami'' House ("Under the Lions") on the right, in wintertime Kościół Zmartwychwstania Pańskiego w Wałbrzychu.jpg,

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an Architectural style, architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half ...

Church of the Resurrection of Christ Wałbrzych kościół św Barbary 1.jpg, Gothic Revival Church of St. Barbara WK15 Wałbrzych Miasto (1) Lichen99.jpg, Wałbrzych Miasto train station

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Neighbourhoods in Poland Wałbrzych {{LowerSilesian-geo-stub

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