Koźle | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Łódź |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Zgierz |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Stryków |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 51.9406°N 19.5844°W |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Registration Plate: | EZG |
Koźle is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stryków, within Zgierz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 5km (03miles) north-west of Stryków, 160NaN0 north-east of Zgierz, and 200NaN0 north-east of the regional capital Łódź.
Koźle was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Brzeziny County in the Łęczyca Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]
On 8 September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland which started World War II, invading German troops carried out a massacre of 17 local Polish farmers (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[3]
The Polish A1 motorway runs nearby, east of the village.