According to the decisions of the Potsdam Conference , the town was placed under Polish administration and became officially known by its Polish name of Jelenia Góra , which was first recorded in 1882 , and is a literal translation of the German name " Hirschberg " . All remaining German inhabitants were expelled westward and new Polish settlers came to the area . The city was not destroyed in the war , but the state of its buildings and infrastructure declined over the next decade . The new Polish authorities dismantled the neglected tenements around the Old Town until 1965 and destroyed the cemetery of the former German Protestant church . Since then the buildings around the market place have been reconstructed in simpler 18th-century historical forms . The town was enlarged through the incorporation of surrounding localities , including the spa town of Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój ( ) in 1976 , now a district of Jelenia Góra
Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference
Jelenia Góra