Koźle, Greater Poland Voivodeship

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Koźle
Village
Koźle WLKP 6.jpg
Koźle is located in Poland
Koźle
Koźle
Coordinates: 52°35′N 16°24′E / 52.583°N 16.400°E / 52.583; 16.400Coordinates: 52°35′N 16°24′E / 52.583°N 16.400°E / 52.583; 16.400
Country Poland
VoivodeshipGreater Poland
CountySzamotuły
GminaSzamotuły
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationPSZ

Koźle [ˈkɔʑlɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Szamotuły, within Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) west of Szamotuły and 41 km (25 mi) north-west of the regional capital Poznań.

History[]

Koźle 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.[2]

During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), inhabitants of Koźle were among Poles massacred by the Germans on November 9, 1939 in  [pl] and on December 8, 1939 in Bukowiec, as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[3] In 1939 and 1942, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles, whose farms were then handed over to ethnic Germans as part of the Lebensraum policy.[4] Poles expelled in 1939 were briefly held in a transit camp in Wronki, where they were stripped of any valuables, and then deported to the Radom District of the General Government (German-occupied central Poland), while those expelled in 1942 were enslaved as forced labour and sent either to Germany or to new German colonists in the county.[4]

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). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 2017. p. 1a.
  3. ^ Wardzyńska, Maria (2009). Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. pp. 199, 211–212.
  4. ^ a b Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. pp. 161, 351. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
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