Stare Stawy
Stare Stawy is a suburb in Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie. Stare Stawy is situated nearby to the neighborhood Pod Olszyną, as well as near Nowe Stawy.Places of Interest
Highlights include Block 10 Medical ‘Experiments’ and Block 11 Inner prison ‘Block of death’.
Block 10 Medical ‘Experiments’
Historic building
Photo: VbCrLf, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Block 10 was a barrack at the Auschwitz concentration camp where men and women were used as experimental subjects for Nazi doctors. The experiments in Block 10 tested bodily reactions to various substances, ranging from no effect to sterilization.
Block 11 Inner prison ‘Block of death’
Historic building
Block 11 was the name of a brick building in Auschwitz I, the Stammlager or main camp of the Auschwitz concentration camp network. This block was used for executions and torture.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zaborze and Oświęcim.
Zaborze
Village
Photo: D T G, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zaborze is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
Oświęcim
Photo: Lankhorst, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oświęcim is a town in Małopolskie Province in southern Poland, 60 km west of Kraków. It's better known by its German name of Auschwitz, and from 1940 to 1945 over a million people, mostly Jews, were slain in the nearby camps.
Osada Stawy Grojeckie
Hamlet
Osada Stawy Grojeckie is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Osada Stawy Grojeckie is situated 2½ km south of Stare Stawy.
Stare Stawy
- Type: Suburb
- Category: locality
- Location: Gmina Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.02031° or 50° 1′ 13″ northLongitude
19.22163° or 19° 13′ 18″ eastElevation
235 metres (771 feet)Open location code
9F2X26CC+4MOpenStreetMap ID
node 31900444OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
3084850
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In Other Languages
From German to Polish—“Stare Stawy” goes by many names.
- German: “Alte Teiche”
- Polish: “Stare Stawy”
Localities in the Area
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