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Grodków () is a town in Opole Voivodship in Poland. It has approximately 9,100 inhabitants and lies 20 km south of Brzeg.
Grodków was granted city rights in 1268 by Duke Henry IV of Breslau. The methodically planned medieval townscape was characterized by a rectangular ring and four streets leading to the towers of the town gates.
Historically it was the seat of an homonymous Silesian duchy, which was bought by a bishop of Breslau from Duke Bolesław of Brieg and added to the episcopal territory of Neisse. The Prince-bishops of Breslau had, therefore, after this the temporal princely titles of Fürst (Prince) of Neisse and Herzog (Duke) of Grottkau, and took precedence of the other Silesian rulers.
The Prussian garrison of the town was disbanded in 1920. The town had 4,867 inhabitants in 1939 and was the seat of Landkreis Grottkau until 1945; in that year Grodków was transferred from Germany to Poland. Two of the towers remain standing today.
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