It is the smallest village in the entire voivodeship. Today no one lives there
There are villages where finding one inhabitant is almost a miracle. One of them is Pawłowice Małe in Lower Silesia. Today it is completely lacking in life.
We are talking about a place that was once an actively developing part of Poland. It never had any spectacular attractions, but it boasted a large group of residents. Today it is completely different. Pawłowice Małe is called a ghost village, the smallest village in the entire province. Lower Silesia.
A small Polish ghost village
Pawłowice Małe was maintained thanks to agriculture. Today, this place is surrounded by empty buildings, a ruined railway station and gray streets. The village has an interesting and quite dark history. It was abandoned for the first time in 1999-2002 due to the harmful Legnica Copper Smelter plant located there. All buildings were demolished, even the historic palace. Tenants appeared again only in 2006, but there were not many of them. Today, they are left with sad and dark memories.
Since the end of 2021, with the death of the last resident, no one has stayed in Pawłowice Małe. When you go there for a walk or a ride, you can be very surprised and feel like you’re in a horror movie. Instead of shops and restaurants bustling with life, in the Lower Silesian countryside we will see wildness and emptiness.
“The buildings were destroyed on purpose so that no one would be tempted to return to this village. In the past, you could really smell the characteristic smells from the steelworks here, but today it’s not so bad,” says Henryk Rogowski, one of the former residents of Pawłowice Małe, recently in an interview with Gazeta Wrocławska.
People driving past the village will notice a road sign located on road No. 364 with the name Pawłowice Małe. If it weren’t for him, many wouldn’t even know that such a place existed.
Pawłowice Małe. What about the abandoned station?
An abandoned village is one thing, but some people are interested in a deserted railway station building. It is known that this one had two working platforms, ticket offices and even a small waiting room. Today, everything belongs to PKP Nieruchomości SA, and is partly rented by PLK as a railway station servicing the steelworks siding.
Is it worth going there? I don’t think so. Unless someone is a fan of urbex and likes to discover mysterious areas. If you are looking for attractions, clean air and contact with other people, it is better to go somewhere else. There is no shortage of attractions, including: in the Kłodzko region in the same voivodeship.
