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Otmuchów is a town in the Nysa district, being the seat of the urban-rural municipality of the same name. It is inhabited by 5.1 thousand residents. The town is located in historical Lower Silesia, in the Sudeten Foothills, in the Otmuchów Depression. The Nysa Kłodzka river flows through it. The town is one of the oldest castellan strongholds in Silesia. As "Otemochow" it was mentioned for the first time in the Bull of Wrocław in 1155, when it came into the possession of the Bishopric of Wrocław for nearly seven centuries. In the 14th century, the settlement received Magdeburg town rights; during this period, it was also surrounded by town walls. During World War II, the Germans established one of the concentration camps for Poles in Silesia, the so-called Polenlager 86, in the town. The Germans were driven out of the town on May 8, 1945, by the units of the 286th Infantry Division of the 115th Infantry Corps of the 59th Army, part of the 1st Ukrainian Front. To this day, the medieval urban layout of the town's foundation, fragments of defensive walls, the church of St. Nicholas and St. Francis Xavier, as well as the bishop's castle and the lower castle, have survived in the town.