Włoszakowice

Włoszakowice [vwɔʂakɔˈvit͡sɛ] is a village in Leszno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Włoszakowice.[1] It lies approximately 17 kilometres (11 mi) north-west of Leszno and 64 km (40 mi) south-west of the regional capital Poznań.

Włoszakowice
Village
Palace in the village
Palace in the village
Włoszakowice is located in Poland
Włoszakowice
Włoszakowice
Coordinates: 51°56′N 16°22′E
Country Poland
Voivodeship Greater Poland
CountyLeszno
GminaWłoszakowice
First mentioned1210
Population
 • Total2,960
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationPLE
Websitehttp://www.wloszakowice.pl/

Landmarks of the village are the Sułkowski Palace, the Karol Kurpiński Museum dedicated to the Polish composer, who was born in the village in 1785, and the Baroque Holy Trinity church, where Kurpiński was baptized.

History
Baroque Holy Trinity church

The oldest known mention of the village comes from a document of Duke Władysław Odonic from 1210, when it was part of Piast-ruled Poland. Włoszakowice was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Kościan County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province.[2] It was owned by the Opaliński family of Łodzia coat of arms, including the Queen consort of Poland Catherine Opalińska, and the Sułkowski family of Sulima coat of arms.

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany until 1945 and local Poles were subjected to various atrocities. On October 21, 1939, the German Einsatzgruppe VI carried out a public execution of Poles as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[3] It was one of many massacres of Poles committed by Germany on October 20–23 across the region in attempt to pacify and terrorize the Polish population.[4] In late 1940, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, whose farms were then handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[5] Expelled Poles were initially held in a transit camp in Łódź, where they were stripped of any valuable items, and then enslaved as forced labour or deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland.[5]

Transport

There is a railway station in the village.

Sports

The Polish Cyclo-cross Championships were held in Włoszakowice in 2021.

Notable people
  • Karol Kurpiński (1785–1857), Polish composer
  • Filip Kaminiarz (born 2001), Polish racing driver

References
  1. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  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. Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 198.
  4. Grochowina, Sylwia (2017). Cultural policy of the Nazi occupying forces in the Reich district Gdańsk–West Prussia, the Reich district Wartheland, and the Reich district of Katowice in the years 1939–1945. Toruń. p. 87. ISBN 978-83-88693-73-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 211. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
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