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Grodków is a town in the Brzeg district and the seat of the Grodków municipality. It has about 8.9 thousand residents. The name of the town appears for the first time in sources from the 13th century. Grodków obtained town rights on September 22, 1268, and in the following century – as a local craft and trade center – it became part of the episcopal Duchy of Nysa. In the first half of the 15th century, the town was destroyed during the Hussite Wars. The Thirty Years' War, contributions, and epidemics brought further losses to the town, followed by the Silesian and Napoleonic Wars. In the second half of the 19th century – under Prussian rule – the town experienced a period of intensive development. During this period, a toy factory, a brewery, and a theater were established, as well as public institution buildings: an agricultural school, a post office, a cadastral office, and a hospital. In 1945, the Red Army entered the town, destroying 60% of the urban fabric. After the end of World War II, the town found itself within the borders of the Polish state. Among the monuments of the town, the municipal market square behind the town hall, the parish church of St. Michael the Archangel, the Neo-Romanesque Evangelical church, and fragments of the town walls deserve distinction.