Kolce

Kolce
Village
Kolce
Coordinates: 50°39′53″N 16°23′49″E / 50.66472°N 16.39694°E / 50.66472; 16.39694
Country  Poland
Voivodeship Lower Silesian
County Wałbrzych
Gmina Głuszyca

Kolce (pronounced[ˈkɔlt͡sɛ] ; German: Dörnhau) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Głuszyca, within Wałbrzych County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border.[1] It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) south-east of Głuszyca, 16 kilometres (10 mi) south-east of Wałbrzych, and 69 kilometres (43 mi) south-west of the regional capital Wrocław.

Before 1945 the area was part of Germany. After World War II the region was placed under Polish administration and ethnically cleansed according to the post-war Potsdam Agreement. The native German populace was expelled and replaced with Poles. (For more information about the history of the region, see Silesia.)

References

Coordinates: 50°39′53″N 16°23′49″E / 50.66472°N 16.39694°E / 50.66472; 16.39694


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, March 04, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.