Sokołowsko () is a village and traditional climatic health resort in Gmina Mieroszów, within Wałbrzych County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. First information about Goerbersdorff appears in 1357,as an existing village set most likely by Benedicts monastery in Broumov (Czech Republic). It lies approximately north-east of Mieroszów, south of Wałbrzych, and south-west of the regional capital Wrocław. Geography Located about north-east of Mieroszów, south of Wałbrzych, and south-west of the regional capital Wrocław, Sokołowsko is the largest village within the Stone Mountains of the Central Sudetes. It is situated in a deep forest-covered hollow traversed by the Sokołowiec and Dziczy streams, at an altitude of above sea level. The border with the town of Meziměstí in the Czech Republic is about in the south. Sokołowsko is surrounded by several forested mountains, predominantly made up from porphyry rocks: Stożek Mały () in the north-west and Masyw Bukowca () in the north-east, as well as Garbatka () in the south-west, Włostowa () in the south and south-east and Radosno ( in the east. The range offers numerous trails for hiking and cross-country skiing in winter. History It is difficult to indicate the exact foundation date of the village. The area had originally been part of the County of Kłodzko, acquired by Bohemia under Duke Soběslav I in 1137. His successors of the Přemyslid dynasty became hereditary Bohemian kings by order of Emperor Frederick II in 1212 and promoted the German Ostsiedlung. Sokołowsko was probably founded about 1250 by monks of the Benedictine Order at Police, a filial monastery of Břevnov Abbey in Prague. The first record of Girbrechtsdorff is documented in a 1357 deed itemising the villages within the burgraviate of Radosno castle (German: Freudenburg), that fell to the Piast Duke Bolko II the Small of Świdnica shortly afterwards, whose duchy in turn was finally incorporated as a Silesian fief of the Bohemian crown in 1392. During the 15th century Görbersdorf had several possessors and suffered from the Hussite Wars. Together with the southern part of the former Duchy of Świdnica the village passed to the Imperial counts of Hoberg (Hochberg) at Książ, the later Princes of Pless. With the Bohemian kingdom the area fell to the Habsburg monarchy in 1526 and was seized by Prussia under King Frederick II in the First Silesian War of 1742. From 1815 Görbersdorf was part of the Prussian Province of Silesia. Görbersdorf didn't differentiate