Chrobry fortified village in Szprotawa
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The Chrobry fortified village (Polish: Gród Chrobry, German: Wallburg Chrobry), named contemporarily for king Boleslaw Chrobry, and located in the town of Szprotawa is a archaeological earthwork and a monument of Lower Silesia in Poland.
It dates from times not exactly yet known. The site lies in the old Bóbr river valley, in the Park Słowiański nature reserve.
The site comprises 4 ha, forming an even plateaum elevated at 6 m relative to its surroundings. Its surface is flat throughout, and its edges form regular, steep inclines. The shape is that of a polygon (see illustration).
The monument is lies between a bog and a marsh, both partly dried.
Until 1945 the site was known as the The Nun Bush Hill (German: Nonnenbuschberg). As of 30 May 2007 it enjoys a new legal status of a protected, designated historical place, thanks to the efforts on its behalf by the local historical society, Towarzystwo Bory Dolnośląskie.
Historian Konrektor Gloger had described this structure as dating from the times these lands were still Polish, but without providing any evidence.
Recently, Maciej Boryna, who works at the local historical museum, Muzeum Ziemi Szprotawskiej, identified ceramic fragments from the site as dating from the Middle Ages, concluding that the structure was never completed, or if so, that it was inhabited briefly.
This ancient fortified village site is one of the largest of its kind yet found in Poland. Other, smaller archaeological earthworks can be found nearby.
