Borowo, Kościan County

For other places with the same name, see Borowo.

Borowo
Village
Historic manor in Borowo
Borowo
Coordinates: 52°7′N 16°47′E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Greater Poland
County	Kościan
Gmina	Czempiń
Population	580
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Borowo [bɔˈrɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czempiń, within Kościan County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) south of Czempiń, 10 km (6 mi) east of Kościan, and 33 km (21 mi) south of the regional capital Poznań.

History

Borowo was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Kościan County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.[2] In the mid-19th century it was owned by the Mizerski family.[3]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), the principal of the local primary school, Józef Wojciechowski, was murdered in a public execution of 18 Poles carried out in the nearby town of Kościan on 23 October 1939, by the Einsatzgruppe VI as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[4] Inhabitants of Borowo were also among the victims of a massacre of 45 Poles carried out on 7 November 1939, in the forest near Kościan.[5]

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, Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 2017, p. 1a (in Polish)
3. Leon Plater, Opisanie historyczno-statystyczne Wielkiego Księztwa Poznańskiego, Księgarnia Zagraniczna, Lipsk, 1846, p. 213 (in Polish)
4. Maria Wardzyńska, Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion, IPN, Warsaw, 2009, p. 198 (in Polish)
5. Wardzyńska, pp. 200-201