Löwenberg
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The town hall, The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the municipal office, The Lubań Tower, The Płakowice Palace, the tenements in the town centre
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 Lwówek Śląski
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| Coordinates: 51°7′N 15°35′E / 51.117°N 15.583°E | |||
| Country |
 Poland
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| Voivodeship | Lower Silesian | ||
| County | Lwówek Śląski County | ||
| Gmina | Gmina Lwówek Śląski | ||
| Established | before 1209 | ||
| Town rights | 1217 | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Mariola Szczęsna | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 16.65 km2 (6.43 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2006) | |||
| • Total | 9,687 | ||
| • Density | 580/km2 (1,500/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 59-600 | ||
| Area code(s) | +48 75 | ||
| Car plates | DLW | ||
| Climate | Dfb | ||
| Website | http://www.lwowekslaski.pl | ||
Lwówek Śląski [ˈlvuvɛk ˈɕlɔ̃skʲi] (Polish: Lwówek Śląski (
listen); German: Löwenberg in Schlesien) is a town in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland. Situated on the Bóbr River, Lwówek Śląski is about 30 kilometres (19 miles) NNW of Jelenia Góra and has a population of about 10,300 inhabitants. It is the administrative seat of Lwówek Śląski County, and also of the smaller municipality called Gmina Lwówek Śląski.
The vicinity of Lwówek Śląski, densely wooded and located on the inner side of the unsettledSilesian Przesieka, was gradually cleared and populated by German peasants in the first half of the 13th century during the Ostsiedlung. The town was founded by Duke of Poland Henry the Bearded who designated it for an administrative centre in a previously uninhabited, borderline Polish - Lusatian territory. By 1217 the settlement, founded by the Duke of Wrocław, had important privileges, such as rights to brew, mill, fish, and hunt within a mile from settlement. German colonists expanded upon the preexisting settlement and in 1217 it received town rights as the second town in Silesia; its style of governance was duplicated by other local towns, such as Bunzlau (Bolesławiec), as Löwenberg Rights or Lwówek Śląski Rights. The dukes then constructed a castle, documented for the first time in 1248. In the second half of the 13th century Löwenberg became the capital of a Silesian Piast principality, whose duke took the title of a Duke of Silesia and Lord of Löwenberg.
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