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Kielcza is a village located in the Strzelce district, in the Zawadzkie municipality. It lies on the left bank of the Mała Panew river. The name of the town was mentioned for the first time in a Latinized form in the "Book of endowments of the Bishopric of Wrocław", written in the times of Bishop Henryk from Wierzbno, in the years 1295–1305. During the Silesian Uprisings, Kielcza remained in Polish hands. However, several residents of the village fighting in the ranks of the Silesian insurgents died during the fighting. After the division of Upper Silesia, the town went to the Germans, who applied repressions against the residents. As a result of the persecution, over 230 people fled to Poland. The town is probably the birthplace of Wincenty from Kielcza, the author of the hymn Gaude Mater Polonia. In the village, there is a Baroque parish church of St. Bartholomew the Apostle, which was built at the end of the 18th century on the site of an older, 14th-century temple. Other monuments in Kielcza include a mass grave of Silesian insurgents in the Roman Catholic cemetery, a chapel from the second half of the 19th century on Dobrego Pasterza Street, and a wooden house from 1831 at 35 Dobrego Pasterza Street.