The village of KLICZKÓW, located in the heart of the Lower Silesian forests, and the castle situated there have so far failed to fulfil the hopes and aspirations placed in them. Kliczków’s best years were the 1960s, when scouting camps, including international ones, were organised there during the holidays. Kliczków filled with groups of scouts who brought this quiet village to life.
Kliczków Castle, standing in a beautiful park, was a major tourist attraction. For the holiday season, I would like to recall an interesting legend connected with the castle; perhaps it will encourage young people to look for traces of its heroes.
When wars were being fought against the German Empire during the reign of Bolesław Krzywousty, and Henry’s army route led through Silesia, the knight TOMIR was granted lands on the Kwisa and ordered by Bolesław Krzywousty to “bar the road from Lusatia to Poland with Kliczków Castle as with a key.”
Tomir fulfilled this role and, at the Prince’s urging, married a beautiful woman from the Topolczan family.
Tomir lived in the castle, which he named KEY, for two years, until he set out on an expedition against the Pomeranians on the Prince’s orders. He left the Czech knight Bogdar as his deputy at the court. Bogdar caught the fancy of the Topolczan woman, and the pair soon became involved with each other.
The lovers’ happiness did not last long. After the conquest of Pomerania, the knights returned home. Bogdar and Tomir’s unfaithful wife ambushed the knight and imprisoned him in the castle dungeon, informing the Prince that knight Tomir had died on the way back”...
Bogdar married the Topolczan woman, while knight Tomir spent 10 years in the castle dungeon plotting revenge. The opportunity came when, during Bogdar’s temporary absence, his younger brother Prosłav, persuaded by Tomir “that he would pay him with a treasure hidden beneath an oak” on the Kwisa, freed Tomir. Tomir captured Bogdar and his wife and had them walled up alive in the dungeon. Bogdar died after two years, while Tomir sent his wife to one of the monasteries in Saxony so that she could atone for her sins.
We do not know what happened to the treasure promised to Prosłav; perhaps it is worth searching for it during the holidays?
(based on the book by UA Wiącków, “Legends of the Karkonosze”)