According to the Polish National Census, 2,340 inhabitants were counted in total.
History
Walim was probably settled around 1220 and first mentioned in 1305 as Waltheri villa . During the Hussite Wars, Waltersdorf was destroyed in 1425 and rebuilt from 1530 to 1548. Around the year 1600, the name Waltersdorf was changed to Wüste Waltersdorf. This was due to Waltersdorf, during the Thirty Years war, many of its citizens were affected by a drought in the village. Among the frequent changing nobility was that of Haugwitz, von Beyer and Peterswaldau. In the middle of the 16th century, it belonged to the Melchior von Seydlitz, a new settlement for Protestants from Bohemia, Moravia and the county of Glatz. After the Thirty Years' War, the Protestant Church was handed over to Catholics in 1654. In the same year, Wüste Waltersdorf came under the family von Zedlitz, whose most famous representative was the Prussian Minister of State, Karl Abraham von Zedlitz. He had visited several times to Wüste Waltersdorf by King Frederick II. In the 18th century, Wüste Waltersdorf developed into a center of the textile industry. In 1737 "Zedlitzhaide" was established. After the First Silesian War in 1742, Wüste Waltersdorf together with Silesia, fell to Prussia in 1742. In the same year, an evangelical prayer house and an evangelical school were built. Since 1765, weekly linen markets have taken place. In 1777 the "Eckardtsberg Colony" and in 1788 the "Friedrichsberg Colony" were founded. In 1779 a linen shop was built, where the linen markets were held until 1830. In 1808, the von Zedlitz family sold Wüste Waltersdorf. After the reorganization from Prussia, Wüste Waltersdorf was part of the Province of Silesia in 1815, and in 1816 was incorporated into the Waldenburg District, in which it remained until 1945. The textile factory Meyer-Kauffmann was established in 1843, was moved to Blumenau in 1854. Since 1874, the rural community of Wüstewaltersdorf has been the seat of the administrative district of the same name, including the rural villages of Rzeczka, Grządki, Silesian Falkenberg and Siedlików. In 1892, the newspaper "Der Bote aus dem Eulengebirge" was founded. In 1903, 1,100 employees were employed in the textile factories Websky, Hartmann and Wiesen AG. In 1914, Wüstewaltersdorf was connected to the village of Jugowice's electric railway line. It was one of the first electrified railway lines in modern day Poland. The line was closed in 1959 and then demolished. During the Second World War, Wüstewaltersdorf was one part of Project Riese, a satellite of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, which was used by Organisation Todt. In November 1943, there was a labor camp in Wüstewaltersdorf for about 1,500 mostly Jewish prisoners in a decommissioned weaving mill. In 1944, the camp was cleared for a typhus epidemic and converted to a hospital with 600 beds for Organisation Todt. After Germany's defeat in World War II, Walim became part of Poland. In 1957, Walim was elevated to a city-like settlement. Between 1975 and 1998 it belonged to the Wałbrzych Voivodship.
Landmarks
The parish church of St. Barbara was erected as an evangelical church in 1548 and used as a Catholic church in 1654. The main architectural altar dates from the 1780s. The figure of the mother god with child in the choir is from the end of the 18th century, the risen Christ from around 1860.
The tunnel system Project Riese, south of the city, there is an entrance to an underground gallery construction and hall system, which was probably created from 1943 to 1945 as a leader's headquarters.
In 1742 an evangelical prayer house was built, which was rebuilt in the Baroque style in 1751. After its destruction 1945, it was rebuilt.
In 2014, Walim is shown in the documentary short film produced by the television network TVN. The documentary depicts the story of Luke Kazka, a resident of Walim, who in the Owl Mountains finds hidden deposits by German residents displaced as a result of the provisions of the Potsdam Conference of the areas subject to the jurisdiction of Polish after World War II.
