Góra

Góra, known in German as Guhrau, is an old town in Lower Silesia. Its name, meaning a hill, appears in a papal deed of 1155 concerning the possessions of the bishopric of Wrocław. In 1288 Duke Henry III of Głogów granted it Magdeburg rights; a mint and privileges for its clothmakers followed under his rule.

The town became a centre of cloth production and received the right to hold an annual fair in 1343, the year in which its parish school was also first recorded. Thirty-three neighbouring villages had already been attached to its administrative district in 1310. Góra remained under Piast and Jagiellonian rulers as the Silesian duchies changed hands, before passing with much of Silesia to Prussia after the First Silesian War in 1742.