| Stara Kuźnia | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Coordinates: | 50.3°N 18.3417°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Poland |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name1: | Opole |
| Subdivision Name2: | Kędzierzyn-Koźle |
| Subdivision Name3: | Bierawa |
| Total Type: | |
| Population Total: | 691 |
Stara Kuźnia is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bierawa, within Kędzierzyn-Koźle County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.[1] It lies approximately 8km (05miles) east of Bierawa, 120NaN0 south-east of Kędzierzyn-Koźle, and 500NaN0 south-east of the regional capital Opole.
During the Second World War the village, then known as Klein Althammer, was the base for a working party (E537[2]) of British and Commonwealth prisoners of war, under the administration of Stalag VIIIB/344 at Łambinowice (then known as Lamsdorf) in Poland. In January 1945, as the Soviet armies resumed their offensive and advanced into Germany, the prisoners were marched westward in the so-called Long March or Death March. Many of them died from the bitter cold and exhaustion. The lucky ones got far enough to the west to be liberated by the allied armies after some four months of travelling on foot in appalling conditions.