Chełmno, Szamotuły County

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

Chełmno
Village
Primary school in Chełmno
Chełmno
Coordinates: 52°29′50″N 16°19′17″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Greater Poland
County	Szamotuły
Gmina	Pniewy
Population	423
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	PSZ
National roads

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.

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. "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 (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.