Borowo, Kościan County
Borowo | |
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Village | |
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Coordinates: 52°7′N 16°47′E / 52.117°N 16.783°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Voivodeship | Greater Poland |
County | Kościan |
Gmina | Czempiń |
Population | 580 |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Borowo [bɔˈrɔvɔ] (German: Borowo, 1939-45: Bärenhort) 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.
The village has a population of 580.
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 October 23, 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 November 7, 1939 in the forest near Kościan.[5]
References
- ^ "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, Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warszawa, 2017, p. 1a (in Polish)
- ^ Leon Plater, Opisanie historyczno-statystyczne Wielkiego Księztwa Poznańskiego, Księgarnia Zagraniczna, Lipsk, 1846, p. 213 (in Polish)
- ^ Maria Wardzyńska, Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion, IPN, Warszawa, 2009, p. 198 (in Polish)
- ^ Wardzyńska, p. 200-201
52°7′N 16°47′E / 52.117°N 16.783°E