Mendzyguzhe
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Mendzyguzhe - a village located in Lower Silesia in the Eastern Sudetes at an altitude of 570-670 meters above sea level. Currently, Mendzyguzhe home to about 700 residents. Since the nineteenth century, it is a popular tourist resort.

The village was founded around 1580 in the royal forest. Initially, Mendzyguzhe belonged to the Czech Chamber of Commerce. After graduating Silesian War in 1763 the village and the surrounding lands became part of Prussia.

In the nineteenth century, when Marianne von Nassau Ouran village began to develop rapidly. Here began the construction of medical and recreational areas, hotels, villas and guest houses. Infrastructure has been greatly improved, there were paths, recreation areas. Mendzyguzhe soon became a popular summer and winter resort. After World War II the entire German population was expelled, the village became part of Poland and the Silesian Province.

Currently, Mendzyguzhe has about 30 resorts, 2 lifts. Hence the rise takes place in the mountain snow, where the pilgrimage church of Our Lady in 1781 and a statue of Our Lady of the Snows, sanctified by John Paul II in 1983.

Former German resort has retained a large number of wooden and stone buildings in the Tyrolean style. The great advantage of the terrain is a huge number of tourist routes, as well as several well-known attractions: waterfall, dam, the chapel of Our Lady of the Snows. The most interesting buildings can be considered a Tyrolean pension "Giant" and "Giant 2", as well as the post office, which is currently being transformed into a luxury guesthouse. In 1965 Mendzyguzhe was filmed the first episode of the film "Four tanker and a dog."

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