Pieszyce
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Pieszyce is a town in Dzierżoniów County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district Gmina Pieszyce.
Panorama of Pieszyce with the church of St. Anthony
Defensive walls of Pieszyce Castle
Panorama of Pieszyce with the church of St. Anthony
Pieszyce Castle
Silesian weavers' uprising
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Silesian weavers' uprising of 1844 or Owl Mountains weavers' uprising was a revolt against contractors who supplied the weavers of Lower Silesia with raw material and gave them orders for finished tex
Pieszyce
…1765 the lordship passed to Count Christian Frederick of Stolberg-Wernigerode, whose descendants held the estates until their expulsion in 1945. The Silesian weavers' uprising of 1844 took place in the town, and was brutally crushed by Prussian troops. The social hardship of the population in the course of the 19th century…
The Silesian weavers by Karl Hübner
Mural commemorating the Owl Mountains weavers' uprising in Bielawa