Kożuchów

Kożuchów, called Freystadt in German, grew in the medieval Duchy of Głogów. Founded in the twelfth century, it received town rights in 1273 and retained a castle and defensive walls from the age of the Silesian Piasts. The duchy later passed to Jagiellonian rulers and was dissolved in 1506. During the Thirty Years' War the town was plundered and burned by Swedish troops in 1632. The poet Andreas Gryphius witnessed the destruction and described it in his account, Fewrige Freystadt. Kożuchów passed to Prussia during the Silesian Wars of the eighteenth century.