Piława Górna
A settlement in Poland.
English name
Piława Górna — Official Polish Latin-script name retained in English.
Other forms in use:
- Gnadenfrei — German name used in Moravian Brethren histories; adopted for the merged settlement in 1928 and superseded by Polish naming after 1945.
- Ober-Peilau — Earlier German name explicitly printed in English history.
- Ober Peilau — Spaced German historical variant indexed in English naming data.
- Ober Mittel Peilau — Qualified historical German variant indexed in English naming data; historical boundaries require context.
- Pilava Superius — Latin documentary name explicitly quoted in English local history.
- Pilawa Gorna — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Piława Górna for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified.
French name
Piława Górna — Same as in English; used as the French locality heading.
Other forms in use:
- Gnadenfrei — German historical name explicitly printed in French locality history; not the current French heading.
- Gnadenfrey — Variant German historical name explicitly printed in French locality history.
- Ober Peilau — French naming-data alias; independent French prose frequency unverified.
- Ober Mittel Peilau — French naming-data alias; independent French prose frequency unverified.
- Pilawa Gorna — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Piława Górna for French retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified.
About
Piława Górna is a town in Lower Silesia, in southwestern Poland. Its history includes a Moravian Brethren community and the development of textile production.
Notes
Empty input Wikidata resolved to Q986091. German Gnadenfrei originally names the Moravian settlement and later the merged locality; earlier Ober-Peilau and Ober Mittel Peilau need historical boundary context. Municipal history confirms the Moravian link. https://www.pilawagorna.pl/asp/historia-miasta,19 Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piława_Górna ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piława_Górna.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q986091 · JSON
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