Poręba Wielka
Poręba Wielka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, in Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,860 residents
- Description: village in Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
- Also known as: “Poręba”, “Poreba Wielka”, and “Poręba Wielka, Oświęcim County”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Bartholomew church in Poręba Wielka and Dwory.
Dwory
Railway station
Photo: Dariusz Sieczkowski, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dwory is a railway station, which is situated 4 km north of Poręba Wielka.
Włosienica train stop
Railway stop
Photo: Mathieu Mars, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Włosienica train stop is a railway stop, which is situated 3½ km east of Poręba Wielka.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Auschwitz III (Monowitz) and Łazy.
Auschwitz III (Monowitz)
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Monowitz was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from 1942 to 1945, during World War II and the Holocaust. For most of its existence, Monowitz was a subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp; from November 1943 it and other Nazi subcamps in the area were jointly known as "Auschwitz III-subcamps".
Łazy
Village
Photo: D T G, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Łazy is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Łazy is situated 3 km southwest of Poręba Wielka.
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. Zaborze is situated 3 km west of Poręba Wielka.
Poręba Wielka
- Categories: village of Poland and locality
- Location: Oświęcim, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.01036° or 50° 0′ 37″ northLongitude
19.28217° or 19° 16′ 56″ eastPopulation
1,860Elevation
242 metres (794 feet)Open location code
9F2X276J+4VOpenStreetMap ID
node 600007431OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3088268Wikidata ID
Q7232910
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Poręba Wielka” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Poręba Wielka”
- Cebuano: “Poręba Wielka”
- Chechen: “Поремба-Велика (Освенцимскан повет)”
- Chechen: “Поремба-Велика”
- Chinese: “Poręba Wielka”
- Czech: “Poręba Wielka”
- French: “Poręba Wielka”
- German: “Poręba Wielka”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Poręba Wielka (Oświęcim Kūn)”
- Polish: “Poręba Wielka”
- Slovak: “Poręba Wielka”
- Tatar: “Поремба-Велика (Освенцимский повяты)”
- Tatar: “Поремба-Велика”
- Turkish: “Poręba Wielka”
- Ukrainian: “Поремба-Велика”
- “Poręba Wielka”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ochotnicza Straż Pożarna w Porębie Wielkiej and Staw Księży.
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