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Legnickie Pole

Legnickie Pole is a village in Legnica County

Legnica County

Legnica County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999 as a result of the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998....
, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Lower Silesian Voivodeship is one of the 16 Voivodeships of Poland into which Poland is currently divided. It lies in south-western Poland, corresponding roughly to the region of Lower Silesia , which passed to Poland from Germany at the end of the Second World War....
, in south-western Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina

Gmina

The gmina is the principal unit of territorial division in Poland. It is frequently translated as "commune" or "municipality." As of 2004 there were 2,478 gminas....
) called Gmina Legnickie Pole

Gmina Legnickie Pole

Gmina Legnickie Pole is a rural gmina in Legnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the village of Legnickie Pole, which lies approximately south-east of Legnica, and west of the regional capital Wroclaw....
. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
.

It lies approximately south-east of Legnica

Legnica

Legnica is a city on the Kaczawa river in Lower Silesia in south-western Poland. According to official figures for 2006, it has a total population of 105,485....
, and west of the regional capital Wroclaw

Wroclaw

Wroclaw is the chief city of the historical region of Lower Silesia in south-western Poland, situated on the Oder River river. Over the centuries the city has been part of Kingdom of Poland , Bohemia, Austria, Prussia, and Germany....
. The village has a population of 780.

The village was the site of the decisive Battle of Legnica

Battle of Legnica

The Battle of Legnica , also known as the Battle of Liegnitz or Battle of Wahlstatt , was a battle between the Mongol Empire and the combined defending forces of European fighters that took place at Legnickie Pole near the city of Legnica in Silesia on April 9 1241....
(Battle of Liegnitz, or Battle of Wahlstatt) on 9 April 1241.

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Legnickie Pole is a village in Legnica County

Legnica County

Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Poland

Gmina

Gmina Legnickie Pole

Germany

Legnica

Wroclaw

Battle of Legnica

Mongols

The name Mongol specifies one or several ethnic groups, now mainly located in Mongolia, China, and Russia....
of the Golden Horde

Golden Horde

The Golden Horde is a East-Slavic designation for the Mongol?later Turkic languages?Muslim khanate established in the western part of the Mongol Empire after the Mongol invasion of Rus' in the 1240s: present-day Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan, and the Caucasus....
led by Kadan

Kadan

Kadan , is a city in the Usti nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic.The city lies on the banks of the river Ohre. Although it is situated in an industrial part of the Czech Republic there is no major industry within the city and people usually work in offices or have to commute....
and Baidar

Baidar

Baidar was the second son of Chagatai Khan.He participated European campaign with his nephew B?ri from 1235-1241. He commanded Mongol army assignated to Poland with Kadan and probably Orda Khan....
defeated a Polish

Poles

The Polish people, or Poles , are a West Slavs ethnic group of Central Europe, living predominantly in Poland. Poles are sometimes defined as people who share a common Polish culture and are of Polish descent....
-German

Germans

The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....
army under Duke Henry II the Pious

Henry II the Pious

Henry II the Pious , was a Silesian Piasts Duke of Silesia , Krakow and Southern Greater Poland from 1238 until his death. During 1238 - 1239 he served as a regent of two Piast Duchies: Sandomierz and Opole-Raciborz....
of Silesia

Silesia

Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in present-day Poland, with parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas....
. The Mongols annihilated their opponents and joined with the main army in Hungary

Kingdom of Hungary

The Kingdom of Hungary , which existed from 1000 to 1918, and then from 1920 to 1946, was a considerable state in Central Europe....
, but upon receiving the news of the death of their Grand Khan Ögedei Khan

Ögedei Khan

?gedei Khan, , was the third son of Genghis Khan and second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire by succeeding his father. He continued the expansion of the empire that his father had begun, and was the Great Khan when the Mongol Empire reached its furthest extent west during the mongol invasion of europe....
, they turned back to attend to the election of a new Khagan

Khagan

Khagan or Great Khan , is a title of empire rank in the Turkic languages and Mongolian language languages equal to the status of emperor and someone who rules a Khaganate ....
, or Grand Khan. The site became known in German as Wahlstatt, or "battle field", in honor of the battle. The battle marked the westernmost expansion of the Mongols into central Europe

Central Europe

Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern Europe and Western Europe Europe. In addition, Northern Europe, Southern Europe and Southeastern Europe may variously delimit or overlap into Central Europe....
.

The village became part of the Kingdom of Prussia

Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a Germany monarchy from 1701 to 1918 and, from 1871, was the leading state of the German Empire, comprising almost two-thirds of the area of the empire....
during the 18th century Silesian Wars

Silesian Wars

The Silesian Wars were a series of wars between Kingdom of Prussia and Austria for control of Silesia. They formed parts of the larger War of the Austrian Succession and Seven Years' War....
. During the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts involving Napoleon I of France First French Empire and changing sets of European allies and opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815....
, the Prussian general Prince Blücher

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher

Gebhard Leberecht von Bl?cher, F?rst von Wahlstatt , Graf , later elevated to F?rst von Wahlstatt, was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall who led his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 with Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington....
defeated a French

First French Empire

The Empire of the French , also known as the Greater French Empire or First French Empire, but more commonly known as the Napoleonic Empire, was the empire of Napoleon I of France in France....
army under Marshal MacDonald

Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald

Etienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre MacDonald, 1st duc de Taranto was a Marshal of France and a French military leader during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars....
at the Katzbach

Kaczawa

The Kaczawa is a small river in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland. It springs from the B?br-Kaczawa Mountains near Kaczor?w, Lower Silesian Voivodeship and flows north and northeast through the towns of Swierzawa, Zlotoryja, and Legnica....
, a small river running through Wahlstatt and Liegnitz, in the Battle of Katzbach

Battle of Katzbach

The Battle of Katzbach on 26 August 1813, was an accidental engagement of the Napoleonic Wars between the forces of the First French Empire under Marshal of France ?tienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald and a Imperial Russia-Kingdom of Prussia army of the Sixth Coalition under Prussian Marshal Graf Gebhard Leberecht von Bl?cher....
on 26 August 1813. In honor of this victory Blücher received the title Prince of Wahlstatt on 3 June 1814.

A Baroque

Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state....
abbey

Abbey

An abbey , is a Christianity monastery or convent, under the government of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serves as the spiritual father or mother of the community....
built at Wahlstatt in 1727 through 1733 with its complex of attendant buildings became a Prussian training institute for cadet

Cadet

A cadet may mean a future officer in the military, a junior branch of an important family, or simply a person who is a junior trainee....
s in 1840. Among others, future field marshal and German president Paul von Hindenburg

Paul von Hindenburg

Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg , known universally as Paul von Hindenburg was a German Generalfeldmarschall and statesman....
studied here from 1859 to 1863, as did the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen

Manfred von Richthofen

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen was a German fighter pilot known as the "Red Baron". He was the most successful flying ace of World War I, being officially credited with 80 confirmed Aerial warfare victories....
, until 1911.

Following the Treaty of Versailles

Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaty at the end of World War I. It ended the declaration of war between German Empire and Allies of World War I....
, which limited the size of the German military, the abbey was turned into a boarding school

Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers....
for boys in 1920. During the Nazi

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
era, it was first a National Political Institute of Education and in the final months of the war a prisoner of war camp Oflag VIII-F

Oflag VIII-F

Oflag VIII-F was a World War II Germany POW camps for Officer s located in Wahlstatt, now Legnickie Pole in Silesia and M?hrisch-Tr?bau, now Moravsk? Trebov? in north-central Czech Republic....
.

The village became part of Poland following World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, had its German-speaking population expelled

Expulsion of Germans after World War II

The 'expulsion of Germans after World War II' was the forced migration of German nationals and ethnic Germans in order to achieve the ethnic cleansing of German populations from the former eastern territories of Germany, former Sudetenland and other areas across Europe in the first five years after World War II....
, and returned to its Polish name Legnickie Pole ("Field of Legnica"). The former abbey became a hospital for emotionally disturbed women in 1957. The Baroque church now houses a museum of the Battle of Legnica.

Legnickie Pole

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