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Strzałkowo, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Village in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

52°18′36″N 17°49′5″E / 52.31000°N 17.81806°E / 52.31000; 17.81806Country

PolandVoivodeshipGreater PolandCountySłupcaGminaStrzałkowoPopulation

4,953Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Vehicle registrationPSLNational roads

Websitehttp://www.strzalkowo.pl

Strzałkowo [stʂau̯ˈkɔvɔ] is a village in Słupca County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Strzałkowo.^[1] It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) west of Słupca and 63 km (39 mi) east of the regional capital Poznań.

History

Monument to insurgents of the Greater Poland uprising of 1918-1919 and victims of Nazi Germany in World War II

Strzałkowo was a private village of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Pyzdry County^[2] in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.^[3] It was owned by the Strzałkowski, Węsierski and Korytowski families.^[2] In the late 19th century, it had a population of 462.^[2]

During World War I, it was the location of a German prisoner-of-war camp for tens of thousands of Allied POWs of various nationalities.^[4]

During the World War II German occupation, in November 1940, the occupiers carried out expulsions of Poles from Strzałkowo.^[5] Expelled Poles were deported to the Kraków District of the General Government in German-occupied southern Poland, while their farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.^[5]

Cuisine

The officially protected traditional food originating from Strzałkowo is local butter (Masło ze Strzałkowa), as designated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland.^[6]

Sports

The local football team is Polanin Strzałkowo.^[7] It competes in the lower leagues.

Notable people

Jerzy Młokosiewicz [pl] (1923–1995), Home Army soldier and participant of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, Polish deputy minister of finance
Leon Michalski [pl] (1915–1979), officer of the Polish Army and the Polish Armed Forces in the West during World War II
Łukasz Kuropaczewski (born 1981), Polish guitarist

References

^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
^ ^a ^b ^c Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XI (in Polish). Warsaw. 1890. p. 449.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ 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.
^ "I wojna światowa". slupca.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 June 2021.
^ ^a ^b Wardzyńska, Maria (2017). Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945 (in Polish). Warsaw: IPN. p. 209. ISBN 978-83-8098-174-4.
^ "Masło ze Strzałkowa". Ministerstwo Rolnictwa i Rozwoju Wsi - Portal Gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 June 2021.
^ "KS Polanin Strzałkowo - Strona oficjalna" (in Polish). Retrieved 3 June 2021.