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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Kotlarnia
| settlement_type = Village
| image_skyline = SM Kotlarnia Kościół św Maksymiliana Marii Kolbego (0) ID 610460.jpg
| image_caption = Saint Maximilian Kolbe church in Kotlarnia
| image_flag =
| image_shield =
| image_map =
| pushpin_map = Poland
| pushpin_label_position = right
| coordinates = {{coord|50|16|N|18|22|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}
| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{POL}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Powiat|County]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Opole Voivodeship|Opole]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Kędzierzyn-Koźle County|Kędzierzyn-Koźle]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Bierawa|Bierawa]]
| total_type =  
| timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| elevation_m =
| population_total = 743
| unemployment_rate =
| registration_plate = OK
| blank_name_sec2 = [[Voivodeship road]]s
| blank_info_sec2 = [[File:DW408-PL.svg|32px]]
| website =
}}
'''Kotlarnia''' {{IPAc-pl|k|o|'|t|l|a|r|ń|a}} is a [[village]] in the administrative district of [[Gmina Bierawa]], within [[Kędzierzyn-Koźle County]], [[Opole Voivodeship]], in south-western Poland.{{TERYT}} It lies approximately {{convert|10|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} east of [[Bierawa]], {{convert|16|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south-east of [[Kędzierzyn-Koźle]], and {{convert|54|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south-east of the regional capital [[Opole]].

==History==
In the 10th century the area became part of the emerging [[Duchy of Poland (c. 960–1025)|Polish state]], and later on, it was part of Poland, [[Kingdom of Bohemia|Bohemia (Czechia)]], [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]], and from 1871 [[Germany]]. In 1702 [[Jacob Heinrich von Flemming]], minister of Polish King [[Augustus II the Strong]], established a [[brass]] and wire factory in the village, and later also mirror and spoon factories, which existed until 1848.<ref name=sgk>{{cite book|author= |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom IV|year=1883|language=pl|location=Warsaw|page=494}}</ref> In the late 19th century, the village had a population of 954.<ref name=sgk/>

During [[World War II]], the Germans operated the E549 [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|forced labour]] subcamp of the [[Stalag VIII-B|Stalag VIII-B/344]] [[German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II|prisoner-of-war camp]] in the village.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lamsdorf.com/working-parties.html|title=Working Parties|website=Lamsdorf.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029103834/https://www.lamsdorf.com/working-parties.html|access-date=12 November 2021|archive-date=29 October 2020}}</ref> British soldiers were imprisoned there, including a group of [[:he:מתנדבי היישוב בחיל החפרים|Jewish Pioneers from the British Army]], who volunteered from "The Land of Israel" (also known as "Palestine", which was under the British Mandate at that time). They worked in the forest. Next to them was also a labor camp of Jews that came from [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]]. The British prisoners of war shared their food with the starving Jews of Auschwitz. At the end of the war they all had to march from the camp to Germany in what was called the "[[Death marches during the Holocaust|Death March]]". A March that had cost the lives of so many. After Germany's defeat in the war, in 1945, the region became again part of Poland.

==References==
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{{Gmina Bierawa}}

[[Category:Villages in Kędzierzyn-Koźle County]]

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Kotlarnia - Revision history

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