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Borowo, Kościan County

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Borowo
Village
Historic manor in BorowoHistoric manor in Borowo
Borowo is located in PolandBorowoBorowo
Coordinates: 52°7′N 16°47′E / 52.117°N 16.783°E / 52.117; 16.783
Country Poland
VoivodeshipGreater Poland
CountyKościan
GminaCzempiń
Population580
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Borowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czempiń, within Kościan County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. 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.

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. In the mid-19th century it was owned by the Mizerski family.

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 23 October 1939, by the Einsatzgruppe VI as part of the Intelligenzaktion. Inhabitants of Borowo were also among the victims of a massacre of 45 Poles carried out on 7 November 1939, in the forest near Kościan.

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, Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 2017, p. 1a (in Polish)
  3. Leon Plater, Opisanie historyczno-statystyczne Wielkiego Księztwa Poznańskiego, Księgarnia Zagraniczna, Lipsk, 1846, p. 213 (in Polish)
  4. Maria Wardzyńska, Był rok 1939. Operacja niemieckiej policji bezpieczeństwa w Polsce. Intelligenzaktion, IPN, Warsaw, 2009, p. 198 (in Polish)
  5. Wardzyńska, pp. 200-201
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