Krzyżowa, Świdnica County

Infobox Settlement
name = Krzyżowa
settlement_type = Village
total_type =


image_caption=von Moltke's palace


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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Lower Silesian
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Świdnica
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Gmina Świdnica
latd = 50
latm = 47
lats = 58
latNS = N
longd = 16
longm = 32
longs = 04
longEW = E
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elevation_m = 230
population_total = 220
population_footnotes = (approx.)
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Krzyżowa ( _de. Kreisau) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Świdnica, within Świdnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.

It lies approximately convert|10|km|mi|0 south-east of Świdnica, and convert|51|km|mi|0 south-west of the regional capital Wrocław. The village has an approximate population of 220.The international youth meeting place Kreisau - long name: International youth meeting place "endowment Kreisau for European notification"; briefly: IJBS Kreisau - is situated in the village.From the 19th century onwards this extensive property was the family seat of the noble family of Moltke till 1945. At this place the members of the ani-Nazi Kreisau Circle met, hosted by Helmuth James Graf von Moltke. After World War II the property was used as a farm, and still today the single houses carry names like cowshed or stable. On 12 November 1989 the Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and the German Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl held a reconciliation meeting here and decided to redevelop the property as an international youth meeting place. The renovation was predominantly financed by the "endowment for German-Polish notification". In 1998 the meeting place was officially opened. Those attending the opening ceremony included the widow of Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Freya von Moltke and the initiator Helmut Kohl.

The property has several hectares of grounds, many comfortable guest-rooms for youth groups as well as for private individuals, a dining room (in a former cowshed), a cafeteria, sports rooms and sports fields, conference rooms (with simultaneous translation arrangement) as well as party rooms (with table tennis and pool). A restored castle containing an exhibition on the Kreisau Circle is also located here.

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