Stary Korczyn | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Świętokrzyskie |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Busko |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Nowy Korczyn |
Coordinates: | 50.3°N 65°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Population Total: | 304 |
Stary Korczyn is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowy Korczyn, within Busko County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 5km (03miles) west of Nowy Korczyn, 190NaN0 south of Busko-Zdrój, and 660NaN0 south of the regional capital Kielce.[1]
Stary Korczyn was the subject of a well-known painting from World War I, Erstürmung des Dorfes Stary Korczyn durch das Landsturminfanterieregiment Nr. 1, 22. Dez. 1914 (Attack on the Village of Stary Korczyn by the Vienna First Infantry Regiment on December 22, 1914), by Alfred Basel, now hanging in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna.