Suvarna Garge (Editor)

Bożków

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Country
  
Poland

Gmina
  
Nowa Ruda

Local time
  
Friday 6:51 PM

County
  
Kłodzko

Population
  
1,600

Bożków httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommons99

Weather
  
6°C, Wind S at 18 km/h, 56% Humidity

Voivodeship
  
Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Bożków [ˈbɔʂkuf] (German: Eckersdorf) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowa Ruda, within Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.

Contents

Map of Bo%C5%BCk%C3%B3w, Poland

It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) south-east of Nowa Ruda, 11 kilometres (7 mi) north-west of Kłodzko, and 76 kilometres (47 mi) south-west of the regional capital Wrocław.

The village has a population of 1,600.

People from Bożków

  • Franz Xaver Gebauer (1784—1822), composer, and promoter of 'Concerts spirituels' in Vienna, born when Bożków was called Eckersdorf, in Prussian Silesia from 1742 (Treaty of Breslau) until 1804.
  • Heinrich Feisthauer, political opponent of the Nazi-regime and a survivor of Sachsenhausen.
  • Franz Magnis-Suseno, Jesuit, rector of the philosophical school in Jakarta, Indonesia.

    • References

    Bożków Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


    Similar Topics