Glogow

Glogow is a city in southwestern Poland. It is the county seat of Glogow County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship seeing that 1999 and become previously in Legnica Voivodeship 1975 to 1998. Glogow is the 6th biggest metropolis in the Voivodeship in step with the 2004 census estimate the city had a total populace of 71,686. The name of the metropolis derives from glog, the Polish call for hawthorn. Among the oldest towns in Poland, Glogow turned into based inside the 10th century as a Piast shielding settlement and received city rights in the 13th century from Duke Konrad I.

Due to the town’s strategic vicinity on several trade routes, the townspeople received many privileges and advantages which brought wealth and greatly reflected at the metropolis's architecture. Over time, Glogow grew to become one in all the most important fortified towns in Lower Silesia. The demolition of fortifications at the beginning of the 20^th century advanced the chances for further increase. However, in the direction of the end of the Second World War Glogow changed into over again became a protecting castle and as such suffered almost entire destruction.