page_title: Lower Silesia
section_title: Sudetes
hierarchical_section_title: Lower Silesia / Geography / Sudetes
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Śnieżka widziana z zachodu. Widoczne żółte schronisko Śląski Dom, przecinająca górę na ukos Droga Jubileuszowa (szlak niebieski) i wspinający się na szczyt szlak czerwony. English: Śnieżka mountain seen from west. Visible: yellow tourist shelter Śląski Dom, diagonal Jubilee Road (blue trail) and red trail climbing to the top. Deutsch: Schneekoppe von Westen. Zu sehen sind das gelbe Schlesierhaus, der schräg verlaufende Jubiläumsweg (blaue Wegemarkierung) und der direkte Freundschaftsweg auf den Gipfel (rote Wegemarkierung).
context_page_description: Lower Silesia is the northwestern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia; Upper Silesia is to the southeast.
  In the Middle Ages Lower Silesia was part of Piast-ruled Poland. It was one of the leading regions of Poland, and its capital Wrocław was one of the main cities of the Polish Kingdom. Lower Silesia emerged as a distinctive region during the fragmentation of Poland, in 1172, when the Duchies of Opole and Racibórz, considered Upper Silesia since, were formed of the eastern part of the Duchy of Silesia, and the remaining, western part was since considered Lower Silesia. During the Ostsiedlung, German settlers came to Lower Silesia and the region was largely Germanized.
  In the late Middle Ages the region fell under the overlordship of the Kingdom of Bohemia, however large parts remained under the rule of local Polish dukes of the Piast dynasty, some up to the 16th and 17th century. Briefly under the suzerainty of Kingdom of Hungary, it fell to the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy in 1526.
  In 1742, Austria ceded nearly all of Lower Silesia to the Kingdom of Prussia in the Treaty of Berlin, except for the southern part of the Duchy of Nysa.
context_section_description: The Sudetes are a geologically diverse mountain range that stretches for 280 kilometres (170 miles) from the Lusatian Highlands in the west and to the Moravian Gate in the east. They are topographically divided into Western, Central and Eastern Sudetes.
  The Lower Silesian section of the Sudetes comprises the Jizera Mountains (highest peak: Wysoka Kopa, 1,126 metres or 3,694 feet), where the tripoint with Upper Lusatia and Bohemia is located near the Smrk summit, along with the adjacent Karkonosze Krkonoše (German: Riesengebirge, also known as in English: Giant's Mountains) (highest: border peak of Sněžka Śnieżka – highest mountain of Czech Republic, 1,602 m or 5,256 ft); Rudawy Janowickie (Skalnik, 945 m or 3,100 ft); Owl Mountains (Wielka Sowa, 1,015 m or 3,330 ft); Stone Mountains (Waligóra 936 m or 3,071 ft); Wałbrzych Mountains (Borowa 853 m or 2,799 ft) and the Kaczawskie Mountains (Skopiec, 724 m or 2,375 ft) with Ostrzyca, 501 m or 1,644 ft - they surround the Jelenia Góra valley, 420–450 m or 1,380–1,480 ft; Ślęża Massif (Mount Ślęża 718 m or 2,356 ft), massive of Orlické hory, Králický Sněžník south of historical Kladsko Polish: Klodzsko), Rychlebské hory and Jeseníky (German: Totesgebirge English: Ashes mountains (Praděd, 1,492 m or 4,895 ft) .
caption: Śnieżka
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