Legnica

Legnica (German: Liegnitz) is a city in southwestern Poland, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the Kaczawa River (left tributary of the Oder) and the Czarna Woda. Between 1 June 1975 and 31 December 1998 Legnica was the capital of the Legnica Voivodeship. It is currently the seat of the county and since 1992 the city has been the seat of a Diocese. As of 2018, Legnica had a population of 99,752 inhabitants.

The city was first referenced in chronicles dating from the year 1004, although previous settlements could be traced back to the 7th century. In 1675 it was incorporated into Habsburg Kingdom of Bohemia. In 1742 the city was annexed by the Prussia, and remained, as a city with a German majority, a part of Germany until the end of World War II, when all Silesia east of the Neisse (Nysa) was transferred to Poland following the Potsdam Conference in 1945.

Legnica in Worldwar
Leignitz was a German city destroyed by one of the Race's explosive-metal bombs in the Race-German War of 1965.