page_title: Kędzierzyn-Koźle
section_title: Kędzierzyn
hierarchical_section_title: Kędzierzyn-Koźle / History / Kędzierzyn
caption_attribution_description: English: The port of Kózle. The picture shows the mouth of the Gliwice Canal disappearing in the bank line. Behind, on the right, the lock of Kozlí on the Oder. Čeština: Přístav Kózle. Na snímku vlevo je vidět vyústění Hlivického průplavu, jehož hladina se ztrácí ve stromoví. Vpravo v pozadí je vidět stupeň Kózle na řece Odře.
context_page_description: Kędzierzyn-Koźle is a town in southwestern Poland, the administrative centre of Kędzierzyn-Koźle County in Opole Voivodeship.
context_section_description: Kędzierzyn was founded as a village in the 13th century. During World War II, Sławięcice (German: Slawentziz, Ehrenforst) was the location of two camps of several Arbeitslager Blechhammer labor and POW camps in the area (the crematorium was also in Sławięcice). Kędzierzyn, along with the eastern 25% of Germany's pre-war area was transferred from Germany to Poland as stipulated by the Potsdam Agreement.  In the years immediately following World War II, the majority of the area's population, ethnic Germans, was forcibly expelled and their property was expropriated.  The area was subsequently repopulated by ethnic Poles, some of whom came from the former eastern territories of Poland.
  In 1954, Blachownia and Lenartowice merged to form the Blachownia Śląska district in Sławięcice.
  In 1999, the branch line connecting the city with Strzelce Opolskie closed as part of Polskie Koleje Państwowe cost-cutting.  In 2003, the Mostostal-Azoty Kędzierzyn-Koźle won the Polish Volleyball League title for the 4th straight year, and in 2006, the Chemik Kędzierzyn-Koźle football team was reactivated.
caption: View of the Port of Koźle, Gliwice Canal and the Oder River
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