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Podlesie is a village located in the Nysa district, in the Głuchołazy municipality. It lies in the Nysa land, in historical Lower Silesia. Podlesie is located about 1 km from the border with the Czech Republic, in the northern part of the Opawskie Mountains, on the south-western slope of Parkowa Góra. It belongs to the Praděd Euroregion. The German name of the village, i.e., Schönwalde, was mentioned in the 14th century as a place near which a gold adit operated, but the first written source mentions it in 1666. The local school was established in 1742, and three decades later a paper mill operated in Podlesie. In 1874, an ironworks was established in the village, which produced various metal materials, including wood processing machines, agricultural machines, and water turbines. During World War I and II, it produced mainly ammunition for rifles and artillery, as well as tank parts. Until the first decade of the 21st century, a branch of the "Frotex" Cotton Industry Plants in Prudnik operated in Podlesie. In the village, there is a Neo-Gothic Church of St. George and a hangman's stone – a boulder at which the roads from Głuchołazy, Zlaté Hory, and Ondřejovice converged in the Middle Ages. According to legend, Count von Wimmersberg, a victim of suicide, was buried beneath it.