- Krzeczyn Wielki
Infobox Settlement
name = Krzeczyn Wielki
settlement_type = Village
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Lower Silesian
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Lubin
subdivision_type3 =Gmina
subdivision_name3 =Gmina Lubin
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area_code = 76
blank_name = Car plate
blank_info = DLU
website =Krzeczyn Wielki ( _de. Groß Krichen) is a village in the administrative district of
Gmina Lubin , withinLubin County ,Lower Silesian Voivodeship , in south-westernPoland . The appendix "Wielki" (Great) serves to distinguish the place from the neighbouringKrzeczyn Mały (Little Krzeczyn). Another Lower Silesianmunicipality calledKrzeczyn is in Gmina Oleśnica.The village was first mentioned as Old Polish "Chrechim" in a
1267 deed byPope Clement IV concerning the grant oftithe s to theabbey of Trzebnica ("Trebnitz"). German colonists settled here from about1280 on under theGerman city law of the nearby town ofLubin , invited by the rulingSilesia n lords of thePiast dynasty .In 1945, as a result of the
Potsdam Conference , Krzeczyn Wielki was placed under the jurisdiction of Poland. The German-speaking population was expelled andPoles were settled here, who themselves had been expelled fromPolish areas annexed by the Soviet Union .
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