Rogoźnica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Rogoźnica [ rɔgɔʑɲiʦa ] ( German: Groß Rosen ) is a village in the municipality Strzegom ( Striegau ) in the Polish Lower Silesian Voivodeship.
It is located halfway between Strzegom and Jawor ( Jawor ), seven kilometers from the two cities.
Mainly Rochester acquisition of the inhabitants was agriculture and the mining of granite.
Gross-Rosen was a member of the county Schweidnitz. 1933 lived in the village of 1,783 inhabitants; In 1939 there were 1,852.
At the time of National Socialism, in March 1941, established the German Reich on the railway line Jawor - Schweidnitz, near the village of the concentration camp Gross-Rosen with its satellite camps.
After 1990, the granite quarries of Rogoźnica were shut down and declared a monument because of its importance as a place of forced labor concentration camp prisoners.
Dobromierz ( Hohenfriedeberg ) | Jaworzyna Śląska ( Königszelt ) - City | Marcinowice ( United Merzdorf ) | Strzegom ( Striegau ) - City | Swidnica ( Schweidnitz ) - City | Świdnica - Gmina ( Schweidnitz -Land) | Świebodzice ( Freiburg in Schlesien ) - City | Żarów ( Saarau ) - City
- Place of Lower Silesia
- Gmina Strzegom