Radków

Sister cities

• Pniewy

History

The settlement probably already existed in the 11th century. In the High Middle Ages, together with the Kłodzko Land, it changed affiliation several times, passing between Poland and Bohemia. A church at the site was first mentioned in 1290. That same year, after the death of Polish duke Henryk IV Probus Kłodzko Land passed to Bohemia. Then in 1418 it received new privileges from King Wenceslaus IV, which equated its town rights with those of Kłodzko and granted the title of a royal city. With the County of Kladsko, it turned Protestant by the mid-16th century and was affected by the Counter-Reformation in the Habsburg monarchy as well as the devastations of the Thirty Years' War, when it was captured by the Austrians in 1621, the Swedes in 1632, and it was struck by epidemics in 1625 and 1633. In the First Silesian War (1740–42), the town was conquered and annexed by King Frederick II of Prussia. The picturesque setting attracted Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who spent a few days here in August 1790. From 1815 onwards, it was incorporated into the Prussian Silesia Province. From the late 19th century onwards, the Wünschelburg sandstone pits supplied notable buildings like the Berlin Reichstag via the new Eulengebirgsbahn railway line to Ścinawka Średnia (then Mittelsteine). After the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, the area fell to the Republic of Poland according to the 1945 Potsdam Agreement, while the German population was expelled. Nowadays the population is overwhelmingly Polish.

Geography

It lies in the Kłodzko Valley at the foot of the Table Mountains. It is located within the historic Kłodzko Land.

Most-observed species

• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  344
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  318
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  277
• Great Spotted Woodpecker

  Dendrocopos major (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  248
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  243
• Common Chiffchaff

  Phylloscopus collybita (Vieillot, 1817) · Aves
  232
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  203
• Eurasian Nuthatch

  Sitta europaea Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  202

Most recent

• M 4.9 — 2010-02-06
  10 km WSW of Lubin, Poland
• M 4.7 — 2009-07-21
  0 km NNW of Chojnów, Poland
• M 3.1 — 2008-09-12
  9 km SW of Lubin, Poland
• M 2.9 — 2008-08-14
  4 km NE of Zagrodno, Poland
• M 2.7 — 2008-05-27
  8 km SW of Lubin, Poland
• M 2.6 — 2008-03-08
  9 km WSW of Lubin, Poland