Kamieniec Ząbkowicki
Kamieniec Ząbkowicki is a village in Ząbkowice Śląskie County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district called Gmina Kamieniec Ząbkowicki. The village is an important railroad junction, located on the main line which links Wrocław with Kłodzko and Prague. In Kamieniec, this route crosses with the west-east connection from Jaworzyna Śląska to Kędzierzyn-Koźle.
It lies approximately south-east of Ząbkowice Śląskie, and south of the regional capital Wrocław. The village has a population of 4,200.
The place is known for the former Kamieniec Abbey, established in 1209 as an Augustinian college by Bishop Wawrzyniec of Wrocław at the site of a former castle of Bretislaus II of Bohemia. In 1247 it became a filial monastery of the Cistercian Lubiąż Abbey. King Frederick II of Prussia hid here from Habsburg troops on February 27, 1741 during the First Silesian War.
Secularized in 1810 by order of King Frederick William III of Prussia, the estates of Kamenz were acquired by Wilhelmine of Prussia, wife of King William I of the Netherlands. Between 1838 and 1873 their daughter Princess Marianne of the Netherlands and her husband Prince Albert of Prussia had a new palace built in a Neogothic style according to the plans of Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
The Palace was plundered and set on fire by the occupying Soviet Red Army during World War II; it was restored in 1995.Surroundings
