Posada
Posada is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bogatynia, within Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is located in a Polish salient between the Czech Republic and Germany.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Szkolaikaplica, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 241 residents
- Description: village of Poland
- Also known as: “Posada, Lower Silesian Voivodeship”
Photo: Brück & Sohn Kunstverlag Meißen, CC0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Calvary and Marienthal Cistercian Nun Abbey.
Calvary
Park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
A calvary, also called calvary hill, Sacred Mount, or Sacred Mountain, is a type of Christian sacred place, built on the slopes of a hill, composed by a set of chapels, usually laid out in the form of a pilgrims' way.
Marienthal Cistercian Nun Abbey
Religious building
Photo: J budissin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Marienthal Abbey is a Cistercian nunnery in Saxon Upper Lusatia. The abbey is the oldest nunnery of the Cistercian Order in Germany to have maintained unbroken occupation of its house since its foundation.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bratków and Działoszyn.
Bratków
Village
Działoszyn
Village
Photo: MIGORMCZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Działoszyn is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bogatynia, within Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech and German borders.
Ostritz
Town
Photo: Alma, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ostritz is a town in the district Görlitz, in Saxony, in eastern Germany. It is situated on the border with Poland, on the left bank of the Lusatian Neisse, 16 km south of Görlitz.
Posada
- Categories: village of Poland and locality
- Location: Gmina Bogatynia, Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.994° or 50° 59′ 38″ northLongitude
14.9337° or 14° 56′ 1″ eastPopulation
241Elevation
257 metres (843 feet)Open location code
9F2PXWVM+HFOpenStreetMap ID
node 671041387OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3088253Wikidata ID
Q874897
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Posada” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Posada”
- Chechen: “Посада (Нижнесилезин воеводалла)”
- Chechen: “Посада”
- Chinese: “Posada”
- Czech: “Posada”
- French: “Posada”
- German: “Posada”
- German: “Rusdorf” (historical)
- Min Nan Chinese: “Posada (Ē Silesia Séng)”
- Polish: “Posada”
- Russian: “Посада”
- Slovak: “Posada”
- Tatar: “Посада (Түбән Силезия воеводалыгы)”
- Tatar: “Посада”
- Turkish: “Posada”
- Ukrainian: “Посада”
- “Posada”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Evangelisches Schul- und Bethaus and Grodzisko Posada II.
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