Głuszyca [ɡwuˈʂɨt͡sa] (German: Wüstegiersdorf) is a town in Wałbrzych County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

The settlement was mentioned as Wustendorf in the Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis from around 1300 as a village owned by the Bishopric of Wrocław, when it was part of Piast-ruled fragmented Poland.

[3] It was founded in the late 13th century during the reign of Duke Bolko I the Strict of the Piast dynasty,[3] named Neu-Gerhardisdorf ("Gerhard's new village") as a settlement of German immigrants.

[3] After Germany's defeat in World War II in 1945, the settlement became again part of Poland under the terms of the Potsdam Agreement.

[3] In 1946 production started thanks to specialists from Łódź, and soon Głuszyca became one of the leading centers of the cotton industry in the region.