Leśnica (Polish pronunciation: [lɛɕˈɲit͡sa], German: Lissa[a], [ˈlɪsa]) is a district in Wrocław, Poland, located in the western part of the city.

In a medieval document written in Latin and issued in Wrocław in 1266, which was signed by Silesian Duke Henry III the White, the village is listed under the name Lesnitz.

[3] Leśnica was first mentioned in 1201, when it was part of medieval Piast-ruled Poland, although it was founded earlier with a stronghold and castle of the Piast dukes built in the 12th century.

[3] During World War II, Nazi Germany operated a subcamp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in the district, in which mostly Poles were imprisoned, but also some Ukrainians, Russians, Germans, Frenchmen, Czechs, Yugoslavs,[5] and a forced labour subcamp of the city's juvenile prison.

[6] The still living prisoners of the subcamp of Gross-Rosen were evacuated to the main camp in a death march in January 1945.