Koza Wielka

Koza Wielka ( German United Kosel ), is a village of about 230 inhabitants in the municipality Pertsov in Poland. It is located southeast of Sycow ( German: United Wartenberg ) and belongs to the powiat Kępiński, Greater Poland Voivodeship to.

History

The village is a typical medieval village street, which emerged from the German eastern settlement and is located in the southeastern catchment area of ​​Sycow, belonged to the rule of the family - Biron of Courland. 1920, the eastern parts of the Groß Wartenberg were awarded with the village Kosel bulk of the newly founded Republic of Poland as a result of the Versailles Treaty. The border with Poland was directly in front of the Catholic Church of St. Philip and Jacob, a detectable since the Middle Ages wooden church, which belonged to the diocese of Great Wartenberg. The German population that continue despite new boundary was oriented to the United Wartenberg, was sold only in 1945 at the end of the Second World War. In an administrative reform in 1975, the village then part of Kalisz Voivodeship, with a renewed reform in 1999 the Wielkopolska Region. In today Polish Koza Wielka only a few former German inhabitants live.

• Place of Greater Poland Voivodeship
• Powiat Kępiński