Piechowice [pʲɛxɔˈvʲit͡sɛ] is a town in Karkonosze County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

[2] It was first mentioned in a document of the Wrocław cathedral chapter from 1305, when it was part of fragmented Piast-ruled Poland.

[3] During the Thirty Years' War, Czech Protestant refugees founded the present-day district of Michałowice.

[6] Some Polish women and children were eventually relocated to forced labour camps in Jelenia Góra.

The Kochanówka mountain hut of the Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society is located near the waterfall.