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| Country | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship | Lower Silesian | ||
| County | Milicz County | ||
| Gmina | Gmina Milicz | ||
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| • Mayor | Paweł Wybierała | ||
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| • Total | 13.50 km2 (5.2 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2006) | |||
| • Total | 12,004 | ||
| • Density | 889.2/km2 (2,303/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 56-300 | ||
| Car plates | DMI | ||
| Website | http://www.milicz.pl | ||
Milicz [ˈmilit͡ʂ] (German: Militsch) is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of Milicz County, and of the smaller administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Milicz. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.
It lies on the Barycz river, approximately 49 kilometres (30 mi) north of the regional capital Wrocław.
As at 2006, the town has a population of 12,004.
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Milich Castle was first mentioned in a 1136 deed by Pope Innocent II as a possession of the cathedral chapter of the Bishopric of Breslau. It received town privileges in 1245. In 1358 the bishops sold Milicz to the Piast duke Konrad I of Oels, whose successors held castle and town until in 1492 the line became extinct and the Duchy of Oels was finally seized as an expired fief by the Bohemian Crown.
In 1494 King Vladislas II of Bohemia granted Milicz to his chamberlain Sigismund Kurzbach, who installed the autonomous Silesian state country of Milicz and Żmigród (Trachenberg). The Milicz part was acquired by the Maltzan noble family in 1590.
Milicz is the site of one of the six Churches of Grace, which the Silesian Protestants were allowed to build with the permission of Emperor Joseph I of Habsburg, King of Bohemia, given at the Altranstädt Convention of 1707. The half-timbered church finished in 1714 today is dedicated to Saint Andrew Bobola.
The castle of the Dukes of Oels erected in the 14th century was destroyed in World War II. The Maltzan dynasty left a Late Baroque-Neoclassical palace erected in 1798 and an English garden, the first in Silesia.
Lohr, Germany, since 2001
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