Łupice, Lubusz Voivodeship
Łupice | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Łupice | |
| Coordinates: 51°58′N 16°6′E / 51.967°N 16.100°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Lubusz |
| County | Wschowa |
| Gmina | Sława |
| Population | |
• Total | 779 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | FWS |
Łupice [wuˈpit͡sɛ] (German: Lupitze; 1937-1945: Ostweide)[1] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sława, within Wschowa County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland.[2] It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) north of Sława, 24 km (15 mi) north-west of Wschowa, and 41 km (25 mi) east of Zielona Góra.
The village has a population of 779.
History
[edit]Łupice was a private church village, administratively located in the Kościan County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[3]
During the German evacuation from occupied Poland in the final stages of World War II, in January 1945, a German-perpetrated death march of Jewish women from a just dissolved subcamp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Sława passed through the village.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ M. Kaemmerer (2004). Ortsnamenverzeichnis der Ortschaften jenseits von Oder u. Neiße (in German). ISBN 3-7921-0368-0.
- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 2017. p. 1a.
- ^ Toczewski, Andrzej (2017). "Filie obozów koncentracyjnych na Środkowym Nadodrzu". Ziemia Lubuska (in Polish). 3. Zielona Góra: 126. ISSN 2450-3355.
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