Kolonia Fryderyk is a village in Gmina Gorzyce, Wodzisław County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Gorzyce, south-west of

Wodzisław Śląski Wodzisław Śląski (; german: Loslau, cs, Vladislav, la, Vladislavia, yi, וואידסלוב, Voydislav, szl, Władźisłůw) is a city in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland with 47,992 inhabitants (2019). It is the seat of Wodzisław Cou ...

, and south-west of the regional capital

Katowice Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popul ...

. It was founded in 1911 as a

coal mining Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...

settlement. Construction of the ''Friedrich - Schacht'' coal mine had begun in 1913 and it began operating for war purposes in 1916. It was closed in 1923.

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Information about village at Gmina Gorzyce website
Villages in Wodzisław County {{Wodzisław-geo-stub