Kamienna Góra (PL)

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Kamienna Góra (German: Landeshut in Schlesien, Czech: Lanžhot, Kamenná Hora, Alternative spelling: Kamienio Gora) is a town in south-western Poland. It is the seat of Kamienna Góra County, and also of the rural district called Gmina Kamienna Góra, although it is not part of the territory of the latter (the town forms a separate urban gmina). Kamienna Góra on the Bóbr river is situated in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (from 1975–1998 it was in the former Jelenia Góra Voivodeship) between the Stone Mountains and the Rudawy Janowickie at the old trade route from Silesia to Prague, today part of the National Road No. 5. The region passed to Poland from Germany in 1945 following decisions approved at the Potsdam Conference at the end of 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 general history of the region, see Silesia. The Counts of Stolberg-Wernigerode were forced to leave the Renaissance castle Kreppelhof that once belonged to the House of Schaffgotsch, which is today in ruins.

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Registered cover from Kamienio Gora 1946 to Lund, Sweden