Szczawno Zdroj - spa town in the Lower Silesia province in southwest Poland. Until 1945 there was in Germany. Szczawno Zdroj is located north of the Sudeten Mountains, 66 km south-west of Wroclaw.

This is one of the oldest spa towns in Lower Silesia. It is rich in therapeutic hydro-sodium and calcium sources. For the first time the healing properties of water in Szczawno Zdroj were detected court physician Caspar Shvenkfeldtom in 1598.

The first mention of the village was found in the documents of Henry I the Bearded, which date back to 1221 year. Initially, the village belonged to the Duchy of Wroclaw, and after the construction of the castle at the end of the thirteenth century, Szczawno-Zdroj began to develop.

In 1392, the land passed into the hands of the Czech King Wenceslas. In 1509 the territory was acquired by Conrad von Hochberg, whose descendants owned and Szczawno Zdroj until 1931.

In 1946 the town was incorporated into the newly formed province of Wroclaw.

Currently Szczawno Zdroj is a popular Polish resort with a unique historical city center, where you can see the building, from the thirteenth century. Spa complex of buildings was built in the years 1822-1894, which includes a pavilion, a hall for bathing, pumping station, gazebo and park, developed in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Other city attractions include the Clock Tower, built in 1818, a Jewish cemetery, and the parish church of the Assumption in 1937.