Krośnice k is a village in Milicz County

Milicz County

Milicz County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. The county covers an area of...

, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Lower Silesian Voivodeship, or Lower Silesia Province , is one of the 16 voivodeships into which Poland is currently divided. It lies in southwestern Poland...

, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina

Gmina

The gmina is the principal unit of administrative division of Poland at its lowest uniform level. It is often translated as "commune" or "municipality." As of 2010 there were 2,479 gminas throughout the country...

) called Gmina Krośnice

Gmina Krosnice

Gmina Krośnice is a rural gmina in Milicz County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the village of Krośnice, which lies approximately south-east of Milicz and north-east of the regional capital Wrocław.The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total...

. It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) south-east of Milicz

Milicz

Milicz is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of Milicz County, and of the smaller administrative district called Gmina Milicz...

 and 45 km (28 mi) north-east of the regional capital Wrocław.

Prior to 1945 it was in Germany

Germany

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. Count Adalbert von der Recke had established an Samaritan

Samaritan

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 psychiatric hospital for children here in 1860, modeled after his orphanage in Düsseltal

Düsseldorf-Düsseltal

Düsseltal is a borough of Düsseldorf with a fairly well-off population and developed around an old convent. It is also known as Düsseldorf-Zoo , because until 1943 there was a zoological garden in Düsseltal...

, Rhineland

Rhineland

Historically, the Rhinelands refers to a loosely-defined region embracing the land on either bank of the River Rhine in central Europe....

.

The village has a population of 1,800.