Trails in the Silesian and Opole Provinces

Łambinowice is a village located in the Nysa district and the seat of the Łambinowice rural municipality. The name of the town was mentioned for the first time in 1273. In the vicinity of the village, a military training ground was established in 1864, where during the Franco-Prussian War in the years 1870–1871, a camp for three thousand French prisoners was set up. A cemetery with 53 graves is a remnant of it. The camp was reactivated during World War I; about 90,000 soldiers of various nationalities passed through it. Nearly 7,000 graves bear witness to those events. The camp was also used by the Germans during World War II – between 40,000 and 100,000 prisoners died or were murdered in the camp during this time, and a total of up to 300,000 soldiers of allied forces of various nationalities passed through it. The prisoner-of-war camps were liberated by the Red Army in March 1945. Currently, the Central Museum of Prisoners of War operates in the village, conducting research on the fate of prisoners in stalags and the victims of the camp.