Chełmno,_Szamotuły_County

Chełmno, Szamotuły County

Chełmno, Szamotuły County

Village in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

For the Nazi German extermination camp, see Chełmno extermination camp. For the town in northern Poland, see Chełmno.

Chełmno [ˈxɛu̯mnɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pniewy, within Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-east of Pniewy, 22 km (14 mi) south-west of Szamotuły, and 42 km (26 mi) west of the regional capital Poznań.

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History

The oldest known mention of the village comes from 1257. Chełmno was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.[2]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, who were sent to a transit camp in Łódź, and then deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland, while their houses and farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[3]

Notable people

  • Teofila Radońska [pl] (1846–ca. 1913), Polish publicist, poet, and translator

References

  1. [1]
    "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. [2]
    Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warsaw: Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. 2017. p. 1a.
  3. [3]
    Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. pp. 206–207. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.


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