Walim, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Walim [ˈvalim] is a village in Wałbrzych County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

Walim is situated in the north-west of the Owl Mountains, along the Voivodeship Road 383, which leads from Jugowice over the Przełęcz Walimska pass to Dzierżoniów.

Neighboring towns are Kokrza to the north, Michałkowa, Glinno and Toszowice to the northeast, Modlęcin and Domachów to the east, Siedlików and Rzeczka to the southeast, Grządki and Głuszyca to the southwest, Jedlinka Górna to the west and Dolki and Sędzimierz to the northwest.

In the middle of the 16th century, it belonged to the Melchior von Seydlitz, a new settlement for Protestants from Bohemia, Moravia and the County of Kladsko.

After the reorganization from Prussia, Wüste Waltersdorf was part of the Province of Silesia in 1815, and in 1816 was incorporated into the Waldenburg District, in which it remained until 1945.

[3] In November 1943,[4] there was a forced labour camp in Wüstewaltersdorf for about 1,500 mostly Jewish prisoners in a decommissioned weaving mill (Websky, Hartmann, and Wiesen AG).

In 2014, Walim is shown in the documentary short film Depositary produced by the television network TVN.

[7] The documentary depicts the story of Łukasz Kazek, a resident of Walim, who in the Owl Mountains finds hidden deposits by German residents displaced as a result of the provisions of the Potsdam Conference from the areas which passed from Nazi Germany to Poland after World War II.

Zajazd Huberta - Hubert's Inn
A timber-framed house from 1704
Plaque at the cemetery of the victims of the local German forced labour camp
A section of one of the tunnels contained in Projekt Riese