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Głuchołazy is situated at an altitude of 294 m at the river Biała Głuchołaska in the Nysa county of the Opole voivodship in southern Poland.

German settlers were called into the region around 1220 by the bishop of Breslau (today Wrocław). Already in 1263 the settlement, then called Ziegenhals in German, had obtained the status of a town. During the 16th and 17th century, Ziegenhals was mainly a town of miners who worked in the gold and iron ore mines of the region. The gold mines were very likely not as profitable as those of the nearby Zuckmantel (Cukmantl, Zlaté Hory, CZ). When most of Silesia became part of Prussia in 1742, Ziegenhals became a Prussian border town while Zuckmantel remained in Austrian Silesia. In the following decades Ziegenhals became known as a town of clothmakers. In 1874 the was connected to the railroad system. Since the end of the 19th century, Ziegenhals was also known as a spa place (hence the predicate 'Bad', 'spa', in the German name of the town). Since 1945 part of Poland, Głuchołazy today has a population of about 15,900.

The picture on glass no.2179 shows the bath houses Hedwigshof and Ferdinandsbad (opened 1882).