Świdnica

Świdnica, formerly Schweidnitz, is a city in Doinośląskie Province, Polska (Poland) on a feeder to the Odra (Oder) River. It has a population of 60 thousand.¹ It is honored by UNESCO for its Peace Church, allowed to be built by Lutherans, a national minority, by the Treaty of Westphalen (1648). The Catholic Cathedral of St. Stanislaus and St. Vaclaus, built from 1330 to 1488, is 338 feet high.²

External references

Church of Peace in Świdnica, Polska (Poland)

Footnotes

1. 2006 figure from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Awidnica, side panel, accessed 12/18/2013.
2. emporis.com, accessed 1/7/2014.