Kędzierzyn, Greater Poland Voivodeship

For other places with the same name, see Kędzierzyn.

Kędzierzyn
Village
Kędzierzyn
Coordinates: 52°30′N 17°41′E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Greater Poland
County	Gniezno
Gmina	Niechanowo
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	PGN

Kędzierzyn [kɛnˈd͡ʑɛʐɨn] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Niechanowo, within Gniezno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) north of Niechanowo, 7 km (4 mi) south-east of Gniezno, and 54 km (34 mi) east of the regional capital Poznań.

History

Kędzierzyn was a private church village, administratively located in the Gniezno County in the Kalisz 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 deported in freight trains to the General Government (German-occupied central Poland), while their farms were then handed over to Germans as part of the Lebensraum policy.[3]

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: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 2017. p. 1b.
3. Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 245. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.