Siedliska | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Opole |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Opole |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Dąbrowa |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 50.65°N 61°W |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | OPO |
Blank Name Sec2: | Highways |
Siedliska is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dąbrowa, within Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, in southern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 4km (02miles) south of Dąbrowa and 150NaN0 west of the regional capital Opole.
In the 10th century the area became part of the emerging Polish state, and later on, it was part of Poland, Bohemia (Czechia), Prussia, and Germany. In 1936, during a massive Nazi campaign of renaming of placenames, the village was renamed to Waldsiedel to erase traces of Polish origin. During World War II, the Germans operated the E323 forced labour subcamp of the Stalag VIII-B/344 prisoner-of-war camp in the village.[2] After the defeat of Germany in the war, in 1945, the village became again part of Poland and its historic name was restored.