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Kłodzko Fortress, the Glossary

Kłodzko Fortress (Twierdza Kłodzko, Festung Glatz) is a unique fortification complex of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in southwestern Poland.^[1]

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Buildings and structures in Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Defunct prisons in Poland
Forts in Poland
Kłodzko County
Military and war museums in Poland
Museums in Lower Silesian Voivodeship

AEG (German company)

; AEG) was a German producer of electrical equipment. It was established in 1883 by Emil Rathenau as the Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität in Berlin. The company's initial focus was driven by electrical lighting, as in 1881, Rathenau had acquired the rights to the electric light bulb at the International Exposition of Electricity in Paris.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Łódź

Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre.

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Bastion

A bastion or bulwark is a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of the fort.

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Bautzen

Bautzen or Budyšin, until 1868 Budissin in German, is a town in eastern Saxony, Germany, and the administrative centre of the district of Bautzen.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Bertrand Stewart

Bertrand Stewart (December 1872 – 12 September 1914) worked as a solicitor in London and was also a military officer in the Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry, he fought in the Second Boer War and the First World War.

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Blechhammer

The Blechhammer (sheet metal hammer) (nowadays Blachownia Śląska, district of the City of Kędzierzyn-Koźle) area was the location of Greater German Reich chemical plants, prisoner of war camps, and forced labor camps (Arbeitslager Blechhammer; also Nummernbücher).

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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Brzeg

Brzeg (Latin: Alta Ripa, German: Brieg, Silesian German: Brigg) is a town in southwestern Poland with 34,778 inhabitants (December 2021) and the capital of Brzeg County.

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Castellan

A castellan, or constable, was the governor of a castle in medieval Europe.

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Cosmas of Prague

Cosmas of Prague (Kosmas Pražský; Cosmas Decanus; – October 21, 1125) was a priest, writer and historian.

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Döllersheim

Döllersheim is an abandoned village in the Austrian state of Lower Austria, located in the rural Waldviertel region about northwest of Vienna.

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Death marches during the Holocaust

During the Holocaust, death marches (Todesmärsche) were massive forced transfers of prisoners from one Nazi camp to other locations, which involved walking long distances resulting in numerous deaths of weakened people.

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Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.

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Ernest of Bavaria

Wittelsbach-Hapsburg aristocrat Ernest of Bavaria (Ernst von Bayern) (17 December 1554 – 17 February 1612) was Prince-Elector-Archbishop of the Archbishopric of Cologne and, as such, Archchancellor of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Westphalia, from 1583 to 1612 as successor of the expelled Archbishop Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg.

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Forced labour under German rule during World War II

The use of slave and forced labour in Nazi Germany (Zwangsarbeit) and throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II took place on an unprecedented scale.

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Fortification

A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime.

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Frederick the Great

Frederick II (Friedrich II.; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786.

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French Army

The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (Armée de terre), is the principal land warfare force of France, and the largest component of the French Armed Forces; it is responsible to the Government of France, alongside the French Navy, French Air and Space Force, and the National Gendarmerie.

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Friedrich von der Trenck

Friedrich Freiherr von der Trenck (16 February 1726 – 25 July 1794) was a Prussian officer, adventurer, and author.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Gross-Rosen concentration camp

Gross-Rosen was a network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during World War II. Kłodzko Fortress and Gross-Rosen concentration camp are Museums in Lower Silesian Voivodeship and World War II sites in Poland.

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Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué

Ernst Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué (4 February 1698 – 3 May 1774) was a Prussian Lieutenant general and General der Infanterie and a confidant of King Frederick the Great.

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History of Poland (1795–1918)

From 1795 to 1918, Poland was split between Prussia, the Habsburg monarchy, and Russia and had no independent existence.

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Hlučín

Hlučín (Hultschin; Hulczyn) is a town in Opava District the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic.

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January Uprising

The January Uprising was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at putting an end to Russian occupation of part of Poland and regaining independence.

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Katowice

Katowice is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has an official population of 286,960, and a resident population estimate of around 315,000. Katowice is a central part of the Metropolis GZM, with a population of 2.3 million, and a part of a larger Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area that extends into the Czech Republic and has a population of around 5 million people, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the European Union.

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Kędzierzyn-Koźle

Kędzierzyn-Koźle (Kandrzin-Koźle) is a city in southern Poland, the administrative center of Kędzierzyn-Koźle County.

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Kłodzko

Kłodzko (Kladsko; Glatz; Glacio) is a historic town in south-western Poland, in the region of Lower Silesia. Kłodzko Fortress and Kłodzko are Kłodzko County.

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Kingdom of Bohemia

The Kingdom of Bohemia (České království), sometimes referenced in English literature as the Czech Kingdom, was a medieval and early modern monarchy in Central Europe.

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Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.

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Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Lower Silesian Voivodeship in southwestern Poland, is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is divided.

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Ludwikowice Kłodzkie

Ludwikowice Kłodzkie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowa Ruda, within Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Moosbierbaum

Moosbierbaum is part of the municipality (commune) of Atzenbrugg in the Lower Austria.

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Nazi concentration camps

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe.

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Nysa, Poland

Nysa (Neisse or Neiße, Nysa) is a city in southwestern Poland on the Eastern Neisse (Polish: Nysa Kłodzka) river, situated in the Opole Voivodeship.

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Ossolineum

Ossoliński National Institute (Zakład Narodowy im., ZNiO), or the Ossolineum is a Polish cultural foundation, publishing house, archival institute and a research centre of national significance founded in 1817 in Lwów (now Lviv).

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Palisade

A palisade, sometimes called a stakewall or a paling, is typically a row of closely placed, high vertical standing tree trunks or wooden or iron stakes used as a fence for enclosure or as a defensive wall.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Polish Academy of Sciences

The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning.

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Polish resistance movement in World War II

In Poland, the resistance movement during World War II was led by the Home Army.

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Prague

Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Racibórz

Racibórz (Ratibor, Ratiboř, Racibōrz) is a city in Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland.

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Reich Ministry of Justice

The Reich Ministry of Justice (Reichsjustizministerium) was a Ministry of Germany during the Weimar Republic and subsequently the Nazi period.

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Sieradz

Sieradz (Siradia, שעראַדז, שערעדז, שעריץ, 1941-45 Schieratz) is a city on the Warta river in central Poland with 40,891 inhabitants (2021).

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Silesia

Silesia (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within modern Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.

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Silesian Wars

The Silesian Wars (Schlesische Kriege) were three wars fought in the mid-18th century between Prussia (under King Frederick the Great) and Habsburg Austria (under Empress Maria Theresa) for control of the Central European region of Silesia (now in south-western Poland).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kłodzko_Fortress

Also known as Festung Glatz, Klodzko Fortress.

, Thirty Years' War, War of the Austrian Succession, Wehrmacht, Wiener Neustadt, Wojciech Kętrzyński, World War II, Wrocław, Ząbkowice Śląskie.

Kłodzko Fortress, the Glossary

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See also

Buildings and structures in Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Defunct prisons in Poland

Forts in Poland

Kłodzko County

Military and war museums in Poland

Museums in Lower Silesian Voivodeship

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