Nowogrodziec

Nowogrodziec [nɔvɔˈɡrɔd͡ʑɛt͡s] (German: Naumburg am Queis) is a town in Bolesławiec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

It was assigned 11 villages which were to be founded on cleared land to create a district called Weichbild.

Here the important Via Regia road crossed the Kwisa, that marked the border with the historic Upper Lusatia region in the west.

Heavily devastated during World War II, the town passed to the Republic of Poland upon the implementation of the Oder-Neisse line in 1945.

Among the historic sights of Nowogrodziec are the town hall (Ratusz), the Baroque church of Saints Peter and Paul with the ruins of the Magdalene monastery, the Saint Nicholas church, the Baroque statue of John of Nepomuk at the Market Square[5] and the Polish-Saxon post milestone of King Augustus II the Strong from 1725.

Ruins of the Magdalene monastery