Alt Cosel

Alt Cosel
	Alt Cosel
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Opole
Powiat :	Kędzierzyn-Koźle
Gmina :	Birawa
Geographic location :	50 ° 19 '  N , 18 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 18 '45 "  N , 18 ° 13' 25"  E
Residents :	832 ()
Postal code :	47-223
Telephone code :	(+48) 77
License plate :	OK
Economy and Transport
Next international airport :	Katowice

The Nepomuk Church

Alt Cosel (Polish: Stare Koźle ) is a village in Upper Silesia . Alt Cosel is located in the municipality of Birawa in the powiat Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski (Kandrzin-Cosel district) in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

geography

Geographical location

Alt Cosel is four kilometers north of the municipality of Birawa , 5 kilometers south of the district town Kędzierzyn-Koźle (Kandrzin-Cosel) and 45 kilometers southeast of the voivodeship capital Opole .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1223.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 414 eligible voters voted to remain with Germany and 236 for Poland. Alt Cosel remained with the German Empire . Until 1945 the place was in the district of Cosel .

In 1945 the previously German place came under Polish administration and was renamed Stare Koźle and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 the place came to the Opole Voivodeship . In 1999 the place came to the newly founded Powiat Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski . On April 23, 2007 , German was introduced as the second official language in the Birawa municipality to which Stare Koźle belongs.

On January 10, 2011, the place was also given the official German place name Alt Cosel .

Sights and monuments

• St. John Nepomuk Church

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birawa municipality website, Sołectwo Stare Koźle ( Memento of May 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 17, 2012
2. ↑ See website of the community ( Memento from May 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ See results of the referendum in Upper Silesia of 1921 ( Memento of December 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )