Borowice, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

The area became part of the emerging Polish state in the 10th century. Initially it was administratively part of the Wleń castellany.^[2] The village was founded in 1644 by Swiss carpenter Martin Markensteiner, who fled from Bohemia during the Thirty Years' War.^[3]

During World War II, in 1940–1942, the Germans used Belgian, French and Soviet prisoners of war and possibly also Czech and Polish civilians for forced labour to build a road connecting the village with Przełęcz Karkonoska, now known as Droga Borowicka ("Borowice Road"), however, the construction was not completed.^[4]

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  Wooden house
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  Hotel
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  Memorial to Allied POWs murdered by Nazi Germany in WWII