Kłodzko est une gmina rurale du powiat de Kłodzko, Basse-Silésie, dans le sud-ouest de la Pologne. Son siège est la ville de Kłodzko, bien qu'elle ne fasse pas partie du territoire de la gmina. La gmina couvre une superficie de 252,25 km2 pour une population de 17 008 habitants.
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The Collegiate Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Gothic collegiate church in Kłodzko, Poland, one of the landmarks of its Old Town.
It was constructed from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries, and houses the remains of Arnošt of Pardubice, the first Archbishop of Prague. The church possesses rich historical decorations and furnishings, including a Gothic vault, portal, baptismal font, Gothic and Renaissance sculptures and Baroque altars, confessionals and organs. The high altar was designed and built by the Tyrolean architect Christoph Tausch in the years 1728–1729. In 1948–1949, it was the first parish Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope John Paul II, was assigned his first pastoral assignment after completing his graduate studies in Rome and returning to Poland.
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Gmina Kłodzko is a rural gmina in Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the town of Kłodzko, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina.
The gmina covers an area of 252.25 square kilometres, and as of 2024 its total population is 16,369.
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Kłodzko County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998.
The county covers an area of 1,643 square kilometres; its territory almost exactly corresponds to the former Bohemian, later Prussian, County of Kladsko. It is located in a panhandle called Kłodzko Panhandle. The county's administrative seat is the town of Kłodzko; the other towns are: Duszniki-Zdrój, Nowa Ruda, Polanica-Zdrój, Bystrzyca Kłodzka, Kudowa-Zdrój, Lądek-Zdrój, Międzylesie, Radków, Stronie Śląskie and Szczytna.
As of 2019 the total population of the county was 158,600.
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The Kłodzko Synagogue, officially the Synagogue of Kłodzko, and formerly the Synagogue in Glatz, was a former Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on the Grünestraße, in Glatz, Germany. This location is now Wojska Polskiego Street, in Kłodzko, in Kłodzko County in Lower Silesia, Poland.
The synagogue was completed in 1885 and destroyed by Nazis on November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht.
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Kłodzko is a historic town in south-western Poland, in the region of Lower Silesia. It is situated in the centre of the Kłodzko Valley, on the Eastern Neisse river.
Kłodzko is the seat of Kłodzko County, and is situated in Lower Silesian Voivodeship. With 25,717 inhabitants at the 2021 Census, Kłodzko is the main commercial centre as well as an important transport and tourist node for the area.
For its historical monuments it is sometimes referred to as "Little Prague". It was established as a settlement in the 10th century, and is one of the oldest towns in Poland, having been granted city rights in 1233. Culturally and traditionally a part of Bohemia, administratively it has been periodically part of Silesia in the Middle Ages and again permanently since 1763.