Kościelec (2,155 m above sea level) is a mountain in the

High Tatras The High Tatras or High Tatra Mountains (; ; ,'' Vysoki Tatry''; ; ), are a mountain range along the border of northern Slovakia in the Prešov Region, and southern Poland in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. They are a range of the Tatra Mountains ...

in the Gąsienicowa Valley of

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

In popular culture

On February 8, 1909, the composer

Mieczysław Karłowicz Mieczysław Karłowicz (, 11 December 18768 February 1909) was a Polish composer and conductor. Life Mieczysław Karłowicz was born in Vishneva, in the Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in Belarus) into a noble family belonging to ...

was killed at the age of 32 by an avalanche while skiing in the Little Kościelec. This incident was commemorated by Wojciech Kilar in his tone poem ''Kościelec 1909'', composed in 1976. File:Kościelec a9.jpg, General view of Kościelec File:Czarny Staw Gąsienicowy, widok na Kościelec.jpg, Kościelec seen from Czarny Staw Gąsienicowy File:Koscielec-widok-z-hali-gasienicowej.JPG, View from Królowe Rówienki

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