Kietrz

Place in Opole Voivodeship, Poland

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50°4′45″N 18°0′32″E / 50.07917°N 18.00889°E / 50.07917; 18.00889Country

PolandVoivodeship

Opole VoivodeshipCounty GłubczyceArea

• Total18.87 km² (7.29 sq mi)Population

(2019-06-30^[1])

• Total6,005 • Density320/km² (820/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal codes

48-130, 48-133

Area code+48 77Vehicle registrationOGLVoivodeship roads

Websitehttp://www.kietrz.pl

Kietrz ([kʲɛtʂ]; Czech: Ketř; Silesian: Ketrz) is a town in Głubczyce County, Opole Voivodeship, in southern Poland, near the border with the Czech Republic. As of 2019, it has a population of 6,005.

History

During World War II, in 1941, Nazi Germany established the Stalag 338 and Stalag 348 prisoner-of-war camps for Polish and French POWs, which, however, were soon relocated to Kryvyi Rih and Rzeszów, respectively.^[2] From 1942 to 1945, the Germans operated a Polenlager forced labour camp for Poles in the town.^[3] In January 1945, a German-conducted death march of prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp and its subcamps passed through the town.^[4]

Notable people

Alfons Luczny (1894–1986), Luftwaffe general
Olga Tokarczuk (born 1962), Polish writer, Nobel laureate

Twin towns – sister cities

See twin towns of Gmina Kietrz.

References

^ "Population. Size and structure and vital statistics in Poland by territorial division in 2019. As of 30th June". stat.gov.pl. Statistics Poland. 2019-10-15. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
^ Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Overmans, Rüdiger; Vogt, Wolfgang (2022). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. p. 334–335, 349. ISBN 978-0-253-06089-1.
^ "Polenlager Katscher". Bundesarchiv.de (in German). Retrieved 12 October 2023.
^ "The Death Marches". Sub Camps of Auschwitz. Retrieved 12 October 2023.