page_title: Walim, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Walim, Lower Silesian Voivodeship / History
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Walim, ul. Wyszyńskiego 8 English: 8 Wyszyńskiego Street in Walim Wikidata has entry Q30083192 with data related to this item.
context_page_description: Walim is a village in Wałbrzych County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district called Gmina Walim. It lies approximately 15 kilometres south-east of Wałbrzych, and 64 kilometres south-west of the regional capital Wrocław. The town is notable for 300-year-old timber framed houses.
context_section_description: Walim was probably settled around 1220 and first mentioned in 1305 as Waltheri villa (Waltersdorf). During the Hussite Wars, Waltersdorf was destroyed in 1425 and rebuilt from 1530 to 1548. Around the year 1600, the name Waltersdorf was changed to Wüste Waltersdorf. This was due to Waltersdorf, during the Thirty Years war, many of its citizens were affected by a drought in the village. Among the frequent changing nobility was that of Haugwitz , von Beyer and Peterswaldau. In the middle of the 16th century, it belonged to the Melchior von Seydlitz , a new settlement for Protestants from Bohemia , Moravia and the county of Glatz . After the Thirty Years' War , the Protestant Church was handed over to Catholics in 1654. In the same year, Wüste Waltersdorf came under the family von Zedlitz, whose most famous representative was the Prussian Minister of State, Karl Abraham von Zedlitz. He had visited several times to Wüste Waltersdorf by King Frederick II. In the 18th century, Wüste Waltersdorf developed into a center of the textile industry. In 1737 "Zedlitzhaide" was established.
  After the First Silesian War in 1742, Wüste Waltersdorf together with Silesia, fell to Prussia in 1742. In the same year, an evangelical prayer house and an evangelical school were built. Since 1765, weekly linen markets have taken place. In 1777 the "Eckardtsberg Colony" and in 1788 the "Friedrichsberg Colony" were founded. In 1779 a linen shop was built, where the linen markets were held until 1830. In 1808, the von Zedlitz family sold Wüste Waltersdorf.
  After the reorganization from Prussia, Wüste Waltersdorf was part of the Province of Silesia in 1815, and in 1816 was incorporated into the Waldenburg District, in which it remained until 1945. The textile factory Meyer-Kauffmann was established in 1843, was moved to Blumenau in 1854. Since 1874, the rural community of Wüstewaltersdorf has been the seat of the administrative district of the same name, including the rural villages of Rzeczka, Grządki, Silesian Falkenberg and Siedlików. In 1892, the newspaper "Der Bote aus dem Eulengebirge" was founded. In 1903, 1,100 employees were employed in the textile factories Websky, Hartmann and Wiesen AG.
  In 1914, Wüstewaltersdorf was connected to the village of Jugowice's electric railway line. It was one of the first electrified railway lines in modern day Poland. The line was closed in 1959 and then demolished.
  During the Second World War, Wüstewaltersdorf was one part of Project Riese, a satellite of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, which was used by Organisation Todt.
  In November 1943,  there was a labor camp in Wüstewaltersdorf for about 1,500 mostly Jewish prisoners in a decommissioned weaving mill (Websky, Hartmann, and Wiesen AG). In 1944, the camp was cleared for a typhus epidemic and converted to a hospital with 600 beds for Organisation Todt.
  After Germany's defeat in World War II, Walim became part of Poland. 
  In 1957, Walim was elevated to a city-like settlement. Between 1975 and 1998 it belonged to the Wałbrzych Voivodship.
caption: A timber-framed house from 1704
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