Wróblin Głogowski () is a former

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

, now almost completely deserted part of

Głogów Głogów (; , rarely , ) is a city in western Poland. It is the county seat of Głogów County, in Lower Silesian Voivodeship. Głogów is the sixth largest town in the Voivodeship; its population in 2021 was 65,400. Among the oldest towns in Po ...

, in

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

Głogów County __NOTOC__ Głogów County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed ...

. Wróblin is located in the direct vicinity of the Głogów Copperworks. Degradation of the natural environment by the smelter forced the inhabitants of the village to leave it. Currently, Wróblin Głogowski is located within the administrative borders of Głogów and is inhabited by one family

Name

The name derives from the Polish name "sparrow", a bird from the sparrow family (Passeridae). According to the German geographer and linguist Heinrich Adamy, the name of the town derives from the Polish name "sparrow". - "von sparrow = Sperling". In his work on local names in Silesia published in 1888 in Wrocław, he mentions the Polish name "Wróblina" as the earliest, giving its meaning "Sperlingdorf", i.e., "Village of Sparrows" in Polish. The Germans Germanized the name to Fröbel and as a result it lost its original meaning. In 1295, in the Latin chronicle

Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis (, 'Book of endowments of the Bishopric of Wrocław') is a Latin manuscript catalog of documents compiled in the later 13th or in the early 14th century. It lists towns and villages obliged to pay a tithe to the Bishopric of Wrocław. As a pr ...

(the "Wage Book of the Bishopric of Wroclaw"), the village was mentioned in the form of Wroblino.

Monuments

The register of the National Heritage Institute includes a list of monuments:Rejestr zabytków nieruchomych woj. dolnośląskiego. Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa. s. 18. ostęp 5.9.2012 * The Chapel of St. Helena's Church, a classicist brick church, built in 1810 * Wooden bell tower

Other monuments

* The Wróblin Głogowski railroad station * Monument to German soldiers from Wróblin Głogowski who were killed in

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* Near the town, burnt Lusatian burial cemeteries were discovered. The artifacts are currently on display in the Archaeological and History Museum in

Castle.

References

{{Reflist Former villages in Poland Districts of Głogów Abandoned places in Poland