Wojanów

Wojanów ([vɔˈjanuf]) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Mysłakowice, within Karkonosze County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

Nikolaus von Zedlitz built a new Renaissance Castle in 1603 which was burnt down around 1642 by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years' War.

The Jelenia Góra Valley became a royal hideaway when Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, a brother of Prussian king Frederick William III, bought nearby Fischbach (today Karpniki) Castle in 1822.

She lived in the Netherlands and at Muskau Castle in Prussia, but during summer holidays often hosted her brother at Wojanów, Frederick William IV and his wife Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, coming over from Erdmannsdorf.

[citation needed] During World War II, the Germans operated a forced labour camp for some 200 Poles, Frenchmen, Luxembourgers and Russians in the village.

Wojanów Palace outbuildings