Karpacz
Karpacz is a resort town in southwestern Poland in Lower Silesia in the Giant Mountains. In summer the town is a popular destination, mainly for hikers wishing to explore the Karkonosze National Park.Photo: Jar.ciurus, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl.
- Type: Town with 4,460 residents
- Description: city and urban gmina of Poland
- Neighbors: Špindlerův Mlýn
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karpacz railway station and Vang Stave Church.
Karpacz railway station
Railway station
Photo: Matix849, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Karpacz is a railway station in Karpacz, within the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland, it is the terminus of the Mysłakowice–Karpacz railway. Between 3 April 2000, and 13 June 2025, the station was closed for passenger services.
Vang Stave Church
Church
Photo: Jar.ciurus, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl.
Vang Stave Church or Mountain Church of Our Savior is a stave church located in Karpacz in the Karkonosze mountains in Poland. It was transferred to its present location from Vang Municipality in the Valdres region of Norway and re-erected in 1842.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ścięgny and Płóczki.
Ścięgny
Village
Ścięgny is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Podgórzyn, within Karkonosze County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. The village was first mentioned in a document of the Wrocław cathedral chapter from 1305, when it was part of fragmented Piast-ruled Poland.
Miłków
Village
Photo: Piotr Matyga, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Miłków is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Podgórzyn, within Karkonosze County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Miłków is situated 4 km north of Karpacz.
Karpacz
- Categories: urban municipality of Poland, city, and locality
- Location: Jelenia Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.7747° or 50° 46′ 29″ northLongitude
15.7542° or 15° 45′ 15″ eastPopulation
4,460Elevation
599 metres (1,965 feet)Open location code
9F2QQQF3+VMOpenStreetMap ID
node 385563068OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3096576Wikidata ID
Q606126
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Karpacz” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կարպաչ”
- Asturian: “Karpacz”
- Basque: “Karpacz”
- Belarusian: “Карпач (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Карпач”
- Bulgarian: “Карпач”
- Catalan: “Karpacz”
- Cebuano: “Karpacz”
- Chechen: “Карпач”
- Chinese: “Karpacz”
- Chinese: “卡尔帕奇”
- Chinese: “卡爾帕奇”
- Croatian: “Krummhübel”
- Czech: “Karpač”
- Czech: “Karpacz”
- Dutch: “Karpacz”
- Dutch: “Krummhübel”
- Esperanto: “Karpacz”
- Esperanto: “Krummhübel”
- Estonian: “Karpacz”
- Estonian: “Krummhübel”
- French: “Karpacz”
- French: “Krummhübel”
- German: “Karpacz”
- German: “Krummahiebel”
- German: “Krummhübel”
- Greek: “Κάρπατς”
- Hebrew: “קרפץ‘”
- Hebrew: “קרפץ’”
- Hebrew: “קרפץ”
- Italian: “Karpacz”
- Italian: “Krummhübel”
- Japanese: “カルパチュ”
- Javanese: “Karpacz”
- Kölsch: “Krummhübel”
- Korean: “카르파츠”
- Latin: “Carpatsum”
- Latvian: “Karpača”
- Latvian: “Krummhübel”
- Lithuanian: “Karpacai”
- Lithuanian: “Krummhübel”
- Low German: “Krummhübel”
- Lower Silesian: “Krumhibel”
- Lower Silesian: “Krummahiebel”
- Malay: “Karpacz”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Karpacz”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karpacz”
- Norwegian: “Karpacz”
- Persian: “کارپاچ”
- Polish: “Karpacz”
- Portuguese: “Karpacz”
- Portuguese: “Krummhübel”
- Romanian: “Karpacz”
- Russian: “Карпач”
- Russian: “Круммхюбель”
- Serbian: “Карпач”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Karpacz”
- Silesian: “Karpacz”
- Silesian: “Krumhibel”
- Slovak: “Karpač”
- Slovak: “Karpacz”
- Slovenian: “Karpacz”
- Slovenian: “Krummhübel”
- South Azerbaijani: “کارپاچ”
- Spanish: “Karpacz”
- Spanish: “Krummhübel”
- Swedish: “Karpacz”
- Swedish: “Krummhübel”
- Swiss German: “Krummhübel”
- Tatar: “Карпач”
- Turkish: “Karpacz”
- Ukrainian: “Карпач”
- Upper Sorbian: “Karpacz”
- Urdu: “کارپاچ”
- Vietnamese: “Karpacz”
- Waray (Philippines): “Karpacz”
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