Chrzelice (; german: Schelitz) is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Biała, within
Prudnik County
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Prudnik County ( pl, powiat prudnicki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( powiat) in Opole Voivodeship, south-western Poland, on the Czech border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the P ...
,
Opole Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
It lies approximately north-east of
Biała, north-east of
Prudnik, and south-west of the regional capital
Opole
Opole (; german: Oppeln ; szl, Ôpole) ;
* Silesian:
** Silesian PLS alphabet: ''Ôpole''
** Steuer's Silesian alphabet: ''Uopole''
* Silesian German: ''Uppeln''
* Czech: ''Opolí''
* Latin: ''Oppelia'', ''Oppolia'', ''Opulia'' is a city loc ...
.
The village has a population of 654.
It is the birthplace of
unicycle handball, where it was invented in the late 1970s.
History
During
World War II, the Germans operated the E31
forced labour
Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of ex ...
subcamp of the
Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp for
Allied
An alliance is a relationship among people, groups, or states that have joined together for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out among them. Members of an alliance are called ...
POWs in the village.
References
Villages in Prudnik County
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