Piotrowice, Środa Śląska County


Piotrowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kostomłoty, within Środa Śląska County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately east of Kostomłoty, south-east of Środa Śląska, and south-west of the regional capital Wrocław.

History

Piotrowice dates back to the Middle Ages. The oldest known mention of the village comes from a document from 1221.
In January 1945, in the village, the Germans carried out a mass execution of a group of 154 prisoners during the "death march" from the subcamp in Miłoszyce to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Two mass graves were discovered in 1970 and 1977.