Kiełczów ) is a village in the administrative district of

Gmina Długołęka __NOTOC__ Gmina Długołęka is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Wrocław County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the village of Długołęka, which lies approximately north-east of the regional capital ...

, within

Wrocław County __NOTOC__ Wrocław County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed ...

Lower Silesian Voivodeship Lower Silesian Voivodeship (, ) in southwestern Poland, is one of the 16 Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is divided. It covers an area of and has a total population of 2,899,986. It is one of the wealthiest ...

, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately south of Długołęka, and east of the regional capital

Wrocław Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...

. It is part of the

Wrocław metropolitan area The Wrocław metropolitan area is a monocentric agglomeration in the south-western part of Poland, in the Lower Silesian Voivodship, consisting of the city of Wrocław (a global Gamma-level metropolis) and its satellite towns. The population livi ...

History

Since the

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, the village was part of Poland,

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and

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, before becoming again part of Poland after

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in 1945. On February 14, 1874, the Amtsbezirk Groß Weigelsdorf – district-District of Kiełczów was created, comprising the villages of Kiełczów, Kiełczówek, Mirków and probably Kamień, as well as the land estates of Kiełczów, Kiełczówek and Kamień. Gutspächter Steiner became the administrator of the newly created district, and Waschke on December 3, 1880. Currently, Kiełczów is the largest village in Długołęka County, with a population of 10,572 (as of 2021).

References

Villages in Wrocław County {{Wrocław-geo-stub