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Liegnitz, Silesia, Germany

Historical place· 1945 city pl 51.210, 16.162

Renamed Legnica, Dolnoslaskie, Poland

Liegnitz, Schlesien — ceded to Poland 1945, renamed Legnica. Meyers 1912 coordinate is 0 km from the stored pin. Name kept as recorded.

Also known as: Liegnitz· alias
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  1. Born 5 JUL 1818
    Johann Carl Friedrich Schiller
  2. Born 10 JAN 1841
    Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Huebner
  3. Born 27 MAR 1843
    Ernst Gottlieb Obst

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Sources for this place

Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs (Meyers Gazetteer), online edition, with GOV (genealogy.net) for post-1945 Polish equivalents Volume 2, Page 66 Secondary

Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs (Meyers Gazetteer), online edition, with GOV (genealogy.net) for post-1945 Polish equivalents · meyersgaz.org / gov.genealogy.net

Liegnitz Liegnitz, Schlesien, Preussen

Unique in the empire. The stored pin 50.9777/6.9516 was in Cologne, 643 km west. Today Legnica, Poland - the tree already holds a modern row for it (#8533), so this row is a candidate for status historical / modernRelation renamed once someone has op room.