Borowa Wieś

Borowa Wieś (German: Neudorf) is a sołectwo in the north west of Mikołów, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.

[1] It was an independent village but as a part of gmina Mokre was administratively merged into Mikołów in 1975.

The village was established in the 16th century by Karol von Promnitz, the owner of the Duchy of Pless.

After World War I, in 1918 Poland regained independence, and in the Upper Silesia plebiscite 381 out of 421 voters in Borowa Wieś voted in favour of joining Poland, against 41 opting for staying in Germany.

In the final stages of the war, in January 1945, the Germans murdered 31 prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Borowa Wieś during a death march.