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Kowalewo-Opactwo

Coordinates: 52°14′54″N 17°55′04″E / 52.24833°N 17.91778°E / 52.24833; 17.91778
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Kowalewo-Opactwo
Village
Church of Saints Peter and Paul
Church of Saints Peter and Paul
Kowalewo-Opactwo is located in Poland
Kowalewo-Opactwo
Kowalewo-Opactwo
Coordinates: 52°14′54″N 17°55′04″E / 52.24833°N 17.91778°E / 52.24833; 17.91778
Country Poland
VoivodeshipGreater Poland
CountySłupca
GminaSłupca
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationPSL

Kowalewo-Opactwo [kɔvaˈlɛvɔ ɔˈpat͡stfɔ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Słupca, within Słupca County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1]

History

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As part of the region of Greater Poland, i.e. the cradle of the Polish state, the area formed part of Poland since its establishment in the 10th century. Kowalewo was a private church village, administratively located in the Konin County in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[2]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), in 1940, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, who were then placed in a transit camp in Łódź, and afterwards 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]

Transport

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The Polish A2 motorway runs nearby, south of the village.

Notable people

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References

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  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. 1b.
  3. ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. pp. 232–233. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.