Krzyżowa, Świdnica County

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Coordinates: 50°47′58″N 16°32′04″E / 50.79944, 16.53444
Krzyżowa
— Village —
von Moltke's palace
Krzyżowa
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Lower Silesian
County	Świdnica
Gmina	Gmina Świdnica
Elevation	230 m (755 ft)
Population (approx.)	220

For other places with the same name, see Krzyżowa.

Krzyżowa (German: Kreisau) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Świdnica, within Świdnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.

It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) south-east of Świdnica, and 51 kilometres (32 mi) south-west of the regional capital Wrocław. The village has an approximate population of 220.

The international youth meeting place Kreisau - long name: International youth meeting place "endowment Kreisau for European notification"; briefly: IJBS Kreisau - is situated in the village. This extensive property was the family seat of the noble family of Moltke till 1945. At this place the members of the ani-Nazi Kreisau Circle met, hosted by Helmuth James Graf von Moltke. After World War II the property was used as a farm, and still today the single houses carry names like cowshed or stable. On 12 November 1989 the Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and the German Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl held a reconciliation meeting here and decided to redevelop the property as an international youth meeting place. The renovation was predominantly financed by the "endowment for German-Polish notification". In 1998 the meeting place was officially opened. Those attending the opening ceremony included the widow of Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Freya von Moltke and the initiator Helmut Kohl.

The property has several hectares of grounds, many comfortable guest-rooms for youth groups as well as for private individuals, a dining room (in a former cowshed), a cafeteria, sports rooms and sports fields, conference rooms (with simultaneous translation arrangement) as well as party rooms (with table tennis and pool). A restored castle containing an exhibition on the Kreisau Circle is also located here.