Wojnowice
Village
A church in Wojnowice
A church in Wojnowice
Wojnowice is located in Poland
Wojnowice
Wojnowice
Coordinates: 52°20′N 16°28′E / 52.333°N 16.467°E / 52.333; 16.467
Country Poland
VoivodeshipGreater Poland
CountyNowy Tomyśl
GminaOpalenica
Population
 • Total1,064
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationPNT
Voivodeship road

Wojnowice [vɔi̯nɔˈvit͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Opalenica, within Nowy Tomyśl County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.[1] It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) north-east of Opalenica, 23 km (14 mi) east of Nowy Tomyśl, and 32 km (20 mi) west of the regional capital Poznań.

History

Wojnowice was a private village of Polish nobility, including the Ostroróg and Raczyński families,[2] administratively located in the Poznań County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.[3]

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied by Germany until 1945. In 1940, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, who were deported to a transit camp in Łódź, while their houses were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.[4] On 21 January 1945, a German-perpetrated death march of prisoners of various nationalities from the dissolved camp in Żabikowo to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp passed through the village.[5] Several prisoners attempted to escape.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  2. ↑ Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XIII (in Polish). Warszawa. 1893. pp. 756–757.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ↑ Atlas historyczny Polski. Wielkopolska w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 2017. p. 1a.
  4. ↑ Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warszawa: IPN. p. 195. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
  5. 1 2 "Ewakuacja piesza". Muzeum Martyrologiczne w Żabikowie (in Polish). Retrieved 9 December 2023.


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