Niemieczkowo

Village in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

52°38′59″N 16°41′58″E / 52.64972°N 16.69944°E / 52.64972; 16.69944Country

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Niemieczkowo [ɲɛmjɛt͡ʂˈkɔvɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oborniki, within Oborniki County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.^[1] It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) west of Oborniki and 32 km (20 mi) north-west of the regional capital Poznań.

History

The oldest known mention of Niemieczkowo comes from 1361, when it was owned by local nobleman Jarota Niemieczkowski of Przosna coat of arms.^[2] Niemieczkowo 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.^[3] It was owned by the Niemieczkowski and Raczyński families.^[2] There is a historic manor house of local nobility in the village.^[2]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), inhabitants of Niemieczkowo were among Poles massacred by the Germans on November 9, 1939, in Mędzisko as part of the Intelligenzaktion.^[4]

References

^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Zespół dworski". Zabytek.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 22 May 2021.
^ 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.
^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 199.