Sigismund Kurzbach, who installed the autonomous Silesian state country of Milicz and Żmigród (Trachenberg). The Milicz part was acquired by the Maltzan noble family in 1590. Militsch was conquered by the Kingdom of Prussia upon the First Silesian War in 1742, and was part of the German Empire from 1871. After Germany's defeat in World War I, Poland re-emerged as an independent country, and Milicz was close to the new border. After the Red Army's Vistula–Oder Offensive, Milicz became part of the Republic of Poland in 1945 after Nazi Germany's final defeat in World War II. Sights Milicz is the site of one of the six Churches of Grace, which the Silesian Protestants were allowed to build with the permission of Habsburg emperor Joseph I, also King of Bohemia, given at the Altranstädt Convention of 1707. The half-timbered house of worship finished in 1714 today serves as Catholic parish church dedicated to Saint Andrew Bobola. The castle of the Oleśnica Dukes erected in the 14th century was destroyed in World War II. The Maltzahn dynasty left a Late Baroque-Neoclassical palace erected in 1798 with an English garden, the first in Silesia. Since 1963 the building is the seat of a secondary forestry college. Notable people Maria von Maltzan (1909–1997), resistance fighter. Field Marshal Walther von Reichenau married her niece at the Militsch church. Joachim Carl von Maltzan (1733–1817), Prussian diplomat as Minister Plenipotentiary in London Oskar Obier (1876–1952), painter Edwin Graf von Rothkirch und Trach (1888–1980), officer and show jumping rider Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand Guhr (1787–1848) conductor Damian Wojtaszek (born 1988), volleyball player Hermann Wassertrilling (Hirsch Wassertrilling), rabbi from Boskovice, was active here in the 19th century Twin towns – sister cities See twin towns of Gmina Milicz. References External links Local history Milicz on Curiosities and mysteries of the township Town site Palace of Milicz Cities and towns in Lower Silesian Voivodeship Milicz County Cities in Silesia