Ziębice

Ziębice, called Münsterberg in German, grew into a Silesian town after the Mongol invasion of 1241. Its market square and the Romanesque-Gothic church of St George lay at the heart of a small ducal capital. From 1322 it was the seat of the Duchy of Ziębice, and its rulers established a court here in 1344. The town suffered in the Hussite Wars and again during the Thirty Years' War, followed by an epidemic in 1643. It passed from the Poděbrad family to the Bohemian kings in 1569 and became Prussian in 1742.