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Karczma Sądowa

Czechia

Karczma Sądowa stands in the village of Uniemyśl, in the Kamienna Góra district of Lower Silesia, and its name tells you what it was for. This was a judicial inn, a karczma sądowa: a place where drink and law shared a roof. It was tied to the administration of justice, and it also served as a meeting place for the surrounding area. In the past it belonged to the hereditary village heads, the sołtysi, which is a good measure of how central it was to village life.

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